Dear Reader (2025-10-29 – posted simultaneously to FB)
As I mentioned in my last post, today is all about the Roman ruins at Timgad.
“Timgad aka Marciana Traiana Thamugadi, was a Roman city in the Aurès Mountains of Algeria. It was founded by the Roman Emperor Trajan around 100 AD. The full name of the city was Colonia Marciana Ulpia Traiana Thamugadi. Emperor Trajan named the city in commemoration of his mother Marcia, eldest sister Ulpia Marciana, and father Marcus Ulpius Traianus. (1)”
“Located in modern-day Algeria, about 35 kilometers (22 mi) east of the city of Batna, the ruins are noteworthy for representing one of the best extant examples of the grid plan as used in Roman town planning. Timgad was inscribed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1982. (1)”
Once again it was a treat to have this whole site nearly all to ourselves.
Footnotes
~ (1) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timgad
Notes on Photos
~ 9 – The brothel was at the corner of Timgad’s 2 main avenues.
~ 10 – Entering Timgad
~ 11, 12 – Timgad side of the arch. If I was using my regular camera I would be capturing images in a format (raw) where I have more control over the final look and feel of an image. With my camera phone, the colours and textures sometimes go slightly wonky (12). 11 is a different image of the arch with a different treatment using both Silver Efex and Photoshop.
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We visited a Roman amphitheatre (I actually had to look up how to spell that word. Several attempts, post coffee even, failed the spell check. Days I wonder why we didn’t regularized English spelling long ago. Then again, poor spelling is one of the things that gives the chatbots and AI algorithms away. (And there’s another spelling challenge.)) I digress.
1-Back to the amphitheatre, I think ours was in Verona. While there, marvelling at the construction, a choir group was practicing, and a crew was setting up a stage for some kind of a performance. One of the local said it was often used for performances. You will remember that Pink Floyd did a concert in one of the amphitheatres, though I can’t remember if it was Rome, Verona, or Pompeii.
I’m glad you didn’t do an HDR for this to get the sky under control. That would have mad the stone look weird. It’s hard to get the scale of the place by itself, so the addition of people is good.
2-Wonderful composition! Balanced, with lovely leading lines. I wonder a little what that guy on the right is doing.
3-Arches amaze me. All the time since constructed, still standing, and probably able to bear a surprising load before failure.
4, 5- Interesting light. Sort of odd to see so many small vertical elements.
6-This one has been growing on me. It’s one that different editing could produce an entirely different look. Not necessarily better, just different. And if it’s my fingers on the editing button, could end up far worse.
8-One of my blog buddies back in my triathlon training days, and with whom I’ve since lost contact was working on a thesis tentatively titled “Huge Roman Erections”. I wonder if she had visited the same place you were.
10, 11, 12-Showing the results of different editing. I’m not sure which I like best. I think the composition of 12, with the colour treatment of 10, with the roadway patterns and light on the fields of 11. Picky picky picky, I know.