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April 15, 2017 by Max Distro LLC

Around the World Sunsets

Horseshoe Bend. Page Arizona

Horseshoe Bend. Page Arizona

Every photographer loves the golden hour, that special time between dusk and dark. Sunsets can be spectacular, unusual and surreal. Since I just got back from Page Arizona to photograph the natural beauty of the area, including of course Horseshoe Bend at sunset, I have decided to collect a few of my favorite sunsets from around the world. Not all sunsets depend on color to make them spectacular, although Horseshoe Bend might be the exception. Often it is the subtle interplay of light and dark, the delicate colors rather than flashy vibrance and it is always about that soft light that fills our senses as the embers of the day play out.

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Filed Under: Arizona, Australia, California, France, Loire Valley, New Zealand, Turkey Tagged With: Aguas Calientes, Ancient Egypt, Arizona, Aswan, Auckland, Blue Mosque, Cartegena, Chenanceau, Hasankeyf, Horseshoe Bend, Istanbul, Lake Van, Miraflores, Mojave Desert, Mont Saint Michel, Montreal, Nile, Page, Peru, Saint Malo, Sunset, Tasmania, Turkey

October 4, 2015 by Max Distro LLC

Sunset Over the Tigris. Hasankeyf, Turkey

Sunset Over the Tigris. Hasankeyf, Turkey

Sunset Over the Tigris. Hasankeyf, Turkey

The Tigris is the eastern member of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, the other being the Euphrates. In Greek, Mesopotamia means between two rivers. The river flows south from the mountains of southeastern Turkey through Iraq and empties itself into the Persian Gulf. The Ancient Greek form Tigris was borrowed from Old Persian Tigrā, itself from Elamite Tigra, itself from Sumerian Idigna. The original Sumerian Idigna or Idigina was probably from “running water”, which can be interpreted as “the swift river”, contrasted to its neighbor, the Euphrates. Another name for the Tigris used in Middle Persian was Arvand Rud, literally “swift river”. Today, however, Arvand Rud refers to the confluence of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers (known in Arabic as the Shatt al-Arab). In Kurdish and in southeastern Turkey the river is known as Dicle also known as Ava Mezin, “the Great Water”. Rising in the Taurus mountains of southern Turkey, the Tigris flows southeast through Iraq, where in the southern part of that country it merges with the Euphrates to become the Shatt al Arab, which then flows to the Persian Gulf. The river has numerous small tributaries running from its eastern bank, and is 1,180 miles (1,899 km) in length.

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Filed Under: Turkey Tagged With: Batman River, Bitlis, Bitlis River, Hasankeyf, Ilisu Dam, Southeast Turkey, Southeastern Anatolian Project, Sunset, Taurus Mountains, Tigris, Tigris River, Turkey

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