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Dreary day in 2024. Tilt Shift lens

The blue city of Chefchaouen is definitely one of the best attractions of Morocco. Those narrow lanes painted with blue and other contrasting colour of flower tubs make them amazingly beautiful. Some leisure walk through that ancient kasbah early in the morning before the arrival of the tourist buses is just mind blowing.

Chefchaouen was founded back in 1471 as a small kasbah to fight the Portuguese invasions. There are a few theories about it, but the one I found most compelling is that some of the first inhabitants of the town were Jewish. And the Jewish people had this tradition to dye their buildings with natural blue color to remind people of the power of the god.

So the tradition continued over the centuries to this day, when the blue colouring is mostly due to touristic reasons rather than religious ones.

The city was known before as chaouen which means horn. It was about the two peaks that can be seen from here. Later the word chef was added in it. Which means look at. So Chefchaouen is basically look at the peaks.

However currently it is known as the Blue Pearl of Morocco.

We have spend 3 nights there exploring every hidden corners of the city. Contrary to popular belief that it should/can be visited in a day trip from Casablanca. Yes it can be visited in a day trip, but it can only be experienced if you stay there for few night and that is exactly what we did.

Now regarding this image; there is not much technicality to be honest except the use of the TSE lens that helped keeping the vertical lines straight and not falling down behind and merging on the top. This is ma way of capturing a city scape. I don't like buildings falling over and major perspective distortion and that is where the TSE comes handy.

If you have already read till here; you might be interested in watching a short film that we have compiled about our experience at the Blue Pearl of Morocco. Click here to get amazed with the beauty of this special place.

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Have a nice weekend.

Hope you will enjoy the picture.

Any suggestions or criticisms are always welcome.

exagerated tower height using downard shift and a bit of up tilt drawing focus on the top.