Dear Reader (2025-12-04 – posted simultaneously to FB),
In today’s post you and I complete our visit to the Casbah of Algiers. The Casbah was built on the side of a hill. Over the centuries it grew down the hill towards the sea in a web of alleys and corridors. The environment is well suited to vertical images, and they were presented in the previous post (Algeria – 22, which also has some commentary). There were though scenes and details that lent themselves to a horizontal format.
Notes on Photos
~ 01 – I have hummed and hawed about this image, and I’m still not sure I like it. The blue screen provides shade on a rooftop cafe that was just about to close when we visited it.
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1-Remember when web pages had to be hand crafted, with HTML lovingly typed out character by character, and background tiles had to be carefully created to certain size and edge constraints so they would go together? Just looking at the blue, and the supporting framework, almost made me think of this because of exactly how the diagonal supports almost but don’t quite align. I quite like it, the blue is nice and vibrant without being overwhelming, and obscures the background exactly the right amount. My only change, might be to crop off the bottom quarter inch or so to remove whatever it is on the lower left, and the stubs of the chair legs .
2-Interesting textures, but the actual purpose of this construction eludes me. Given some of the atrocities that happened in Algeria, maybe we don’t want to know.
5-I’ve looked at this one a bunch and I remain puzzled and a bit intrigued. I’m pretty sure some tiles have been damaged along the way, but the repairs are interesting. Are they working towards a new pattern? Were the correct replacement tiles not available? Or was this the way it was built, and there is a subtle breaking of the pattern that is part of a more complex pattern that only the cognoscenti understand?
6-I am baffled. In a colder climate I could believe it was a fancy delivery chute for coal.