Posts Tagged ‘19th century’
Caption:
Church Of The Assumption In Koprivshtitsa, Bulgaria.
Description:
This beautiful church dates from 1817 with an iconostasis created by the wood carving artist Hasji Georgi in 1821 and many icons including some by Zahari Zograf, Joan Kableshkov and Father Ivancho.
Many famous citizens are buried in the graveyard.
Koprivshtitsa is one of the most picturesque towns in Bulgaria.
It has many colourful national revival buildings from the 19th. century.
It is about 100 miles from Sofia and straddles the river Topolnitsa.
It is famous historically as the place where the first shot was fired in the 1867 uprising against the Ottoman occupation.
Kalachev Most, (Shooters Bridge) commemorates this.
Since 1956 there has been a national festival of Bulgarian folklore which takes place every 5 years.
Koprivshtitsa is a centre for hiking and sightseeing in the Sredna Gora mountains.
Photo Notes:
As a photographer, Koprivshtitsa is one of my favourite locations. It has fine old buildings and is surrounded by beautiful countryside.
This photograph presented a particular challenge in that the top half of the church was bathed in bright sunlight and the bottom half in shadow.
Clearly this sort of range is difficult to capture without losing highlights or shadows.
By shooting in RAW I was able to capture enough detail to balance the tone later.
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