Istanbul City 4K

This is the first video of our project CITIES in 4K. We choosed the amazing Istanbul City in 4K resolution to start the project with. Hope you will like it and follow our journey on youtube through other amazing cities.

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Some scenes which are part of the video are: Panoramic view on the Bosphorus Bridge and Eminonu square, Valens Aquaeduct with traffic, Amazing view from Camlica hill, Eminonu Pier, Maidens Tower, Interior of Sultan Ahmet Mosque, Inside of Hagia Sophia museum, People Crowd in Grand Bazaar, Kadikoy Harbor, New Mosque in Eminonu, Sehzade Mosque, Topkapi Palace, Ortakoy Mosque.
Filmed and Edited by Amir Kulaglic using: Canon 5D Mark III and GH4 with Emotimo and Rhino Slider. For Day to night transition i use Timelapse+ Intervalometer.
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Intoxicating Aladdin’s Cave Grand Bazaar in Istanbul

Turkish shopkeepers stand in their Aladdin's cave of mystery in one of the oldest covered markets in the world, which is so popular in Istanbul's Grand Bazaar hosts over 3,000 stores and more than 250,000 people visit every day, and has 91 MILLION visitors every year. These days, in spite of increase in new modern shopping malls, the beauty and tradition of the Grand Bazaar continues to be a big enticement. This market is extremely famous among travelers, and in 2014 it was listed as the world's most visited tourist attraction, beating the 91.25m visitors who traipsed the colorful stores the previous year. 

Therefore, the 15th century Bazaar (Market) is famous for its hand-painted ceramics, lanterns, intricately patterned carpets and Byzantine-style jewelry and heaves with Turkish things, kilims, jewelry, backgammon boards, trinkets, leather goods and mother of pearl inlaid boxes. Thus, there’s a labyrinth of arcades and passageways, where it is easy to lose your sense of direction.  It is easily describes that it as 'one of the world’s most exciting shopping experiences. Moreover, several of the stalls in the market are grouped by type of goods, with special areas for leather, gold jewelry and the like. This market “bazaar” has been significant trading center since 1461, and its labyrinthine vaults feature two bedestens “domed buildings”, the first of which was constructed between 1455 and 1461 by the order of Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror. 

Moreover, the beautiful complex houses two mosques, four fountains, two hamams and several cafés and restaurants. Furthermore, in the center it is high domed hall of the “Cevahir Bedesten”, where the most valued items and antiques were to be found in the past, and still are nowadays, with furniture, copperware, amber prayer beads, inlaid weapons, icons, mother-of-pearl mirrors, water pipes, watches and clocks, candlesticks, old coins, and silver and gold jewelry set with coral and turquoise.  The Bazaar is open Monday to Saturday from 9am until 7pm and is closed Sundays and Bank Holidays. If you’re shopping lover, then it is must place visit for you. Though, be careful, because prices are bit high for foreigners. But you can bargain the price with your skills. 

Source: Charismatic Planet 

The Great Mosque and Hospital of Divriği Turkey

This Anatolia region was conquered by the Turks at the start of the 11th century, and then in 1228–29 Emir Ahmet Shah founded a mosque, with its adjoining hospital, at Divrigi. The mosque has a single prayer room and is crowned by two cupolas. The Great Mosque and Hospital of Divriği is a remarkable building combining a monumental hypostyle mosque with a two storey hospital, which includes a tomb, located on the slopes below the castle of Divriği, Sivas Province in central eastern Turkey.

The Mosque and Hospital is an ornately decorated mosque and hospital complex built in 1228-1229 by the local dynasty of the “Mengujekids” in the small eastern Anatolian town of Divriği, now in Sivas Province in Turkey. The mosque (Masjid) and hospital adjoins in building complex, which shares qibla wall. The main entrance to the mosque is marked by a tall portal which is celebrated for the quality and density of its high-relief stone carving. The other entrance side had collapsed and was rebuilt at later stage. Therefore, third entrances of the mosque have served a royal entrance reserved for the ruler and his entourage. The name of the chief architect is inscribed in the interior of both the mosque and the hospital and has been read as Khurramshāh b. Mughīth al-Khilātī.

The Great Mosque of Divriği is the most splendid example of the mosques built during the Seljuk Period mixture of Baroque, Seljuk and Gothic styles, but nevertheless represents a unique and distinct style of their own. Moreover, mosque interior comprises of stone piers actually help in stone vaults. The central bay of the mosque left open for sky and original wooden furnishing survive along its Qibla wall. The mosque window opening to the tomb chamber within the hospital and its wooden minar dated back to 1243 and signed by the craftsman Ibrahīm b. Ahmad al-Tiflīsī. Even some carved wooden panels to belong to the royal platform are today on view in the museum of the Directorate of Pious Endowments in Ankara. The Great Mosque and Hospital remain intact retaining the key attributes carrying outstanding universal value, setting the complex is vulnerable to the impact of surrounding development.

The superb carvings and architecture of both structures place them amongst the most significant works of architecture in Anatolia and led to their inclusion on UNESCO's World Heritage List in 1985. The hospital portal located on the western façade, different in design from the north portal of the mosque and framed by a monumental pointed arch and features a window in the center. The inscription on the portal of the hospital describes the building as a dār al-shifā' “house of healing” and ascribes its foundation to Tūrān Malik bint. The stone carving is the same quality as the main mosque portal but is less dense and appears, in certain places, to be unfinished. The hospital interior comprises of rooms and iwans.  The hospital has a second story on its southern side which is reached by a staircase just inside the entrance. One of the rooms of the hospital was dedicated to serve as a dynastic tomb chamber. This room has a window opening to the mosque.

“Tuz Golu” A Lake in Turkey has Become Bright Red as Massive Algae Blossom within the Waters.

Well, you’ve might see numerous pink lakes on internet, but “Tuz Golu”, is unique addition in the pink lakes collection. “Tuz Golu” is one of the largest salt lakes in the world (Tuz Golu is the 2nd largest lake in Turkey), and lies in a tectonic depression in Turkey’s dry central plateau, situated in Aksaray. The lake just like a devil’s swimming pool due to huge algae flourish, as Rosy Dunaliella Salina algae turn into pink shade every year. However, you don’t need to worry, because this algae is completely harmless, its colors change not a sign of apocalypse, or an ecological disaster. Tuz Golu lake stretches across more than 580 square mile and just three to six meter deep in most of the year, also making it one of the largest hypersaline lakes in the world.

When the summer season starts, the lake water evaporates due to heat and killing plankton that normally eat the algae.  When the summer heat at its peak, the algae continuously thriving and will perhaps red until the lake fully evaporate. The water organisms have antioxidant properties, and also highly rich in red beta carotene which gives flamingos their pink color. The “Tuz Golu” lake recedes and reddens every year, leaving behind cracked salt flats that supply half of Turkey's salt, and entice snap-happy tourists.  So many photographers went in Turkey just to capture crimson lake in all its glory. Therefore, in 2001, Lake “Tuz Golu” was declared a particularly protected area, including all of the lake surface and surrounding waterbeds and few of the key neighboring steppe areas.Source: Charismaticplanet.com

Mabed - Istanbul from Minarets (Fragman)

Temple "Minarets of Istanbul" project Time-lapse documentary film fragments. Since 2013 the FSMs sponsorship and construction works are continuing around and minarets. Temple’s documentary film, Faith Sultan Mehmet, is operated by the Şadoğl mosque minarets are leading so far: I Tarihiy to tell the island's Istanbul mosque minaret yet though we all just up the road and we’ve found out multiple times in fact our most important historic buildings. We also do not forget to take the minaret of panoramic photos. The project in which all Tarihiy islands of the minarets of the mosque Istanbul themed monitoring. Time-lapse film as a documentary temple is thought to be supported with video.

1. Blue Mosque - 2 - 4 and 6 Minarets

2 - Hagia Sophia - 2 Cross minarets.

3 - Fatih Mosque Minarets

4 - Sulaymaniyah - Cevahir and rear Minarets

5 - Prince Mosque Minaret

6 - Nuruosmaniye Mosque Minaret

7 - Firuzağa Mosque Minaret

8 - Sultan Selim Minaret

9 - New Mosque Minaret

10 - Beyazit fire tower (Minaret intention)

And a number of domes

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