ENTRY DESCRIPTION
The Sultan Ahmed Mosque, which is also known as the Blue Mosque, was constructed between 1609 and 1616 during the rule of Ahmed I. It is a popular tourist attraction today and a must see when visiting Istanbul's historic quarter.

AUTHOR
I am Austrian Nationality, born in 1966 in Swizerland. I started getting interrest in art when I was 20 years old. I started with "fantasy and surealistic" paintings in acrylic and oil on canvas and managed to get an exhibition arranged for a selection of paintings. Sometime later, I purchased me my forst SLR camera (Film) and started experimenting with B&W photography, however, at this time, taking photography as a serious hobby was too expensive for me (due to film developmant equipment needed for dark room etc.), therefore I stopped photography.

25 years later, I took up photography again. Times had changed with digital photography where dark rooms are not an issue anymore and the development and manipulation of photographs takes place on a PC. I became quite enthusiastic about photography, and, sometimes, feel that I might be obsessed with it.

One of my passions is manipulating photographs with photoshop or similar applications to the extend that it combines different elements of different photographs and even artificially generated elements (back to fantasy and surealistic art).

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