Samarkand (and around) Thanksgiving, 2020 39°39’17.6″N 66°58’32.3″E-ish

Posted byMark SchlinkPosted inAncients, landscape, Samarkand, Urban, Uzbekistan

We just returned from our first trip Samarkand-there will be more- and it completely lived up to its billing. So much so, that I had trouble fitting everything I wanted into any given shot. As such I used a fisheye lens with 180 degrees worth of visibility (every now and then I accidentally include my feet in any given photo). It is super handy for getting a lot into a single photo, but they also distort images. The farther away from the center the more distortion you may notice. I hope you enjoy in any case.

David and Margo in the Registan Square
The tile work is amazing.
Shots taken at 8mm come out as circles, like this one of a ceiling.
Around every corner there was something else to take a photo of. It reminded me of the Taj Mahal.
Just amazing amount of detail work.
Then through another set of doors…
This shot was taken looking straight up in one of the court yards.
I read about Samarkand but I never realized it is surrounded by mountains, like these over the Shirin Beka Oka Mausoleum.
Looking up at the Shirin Beka Oka Mausoleum.
ThE ceilings start to look like kaleidoscopes after a while.
Tile work on the Ak Saray Palace in Shahrisabz, the birth place of Amir Timur, also known as Tamerlane (Edgar Allen Poe even wrote a poem about him)

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