From the beginning until today

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I didn’t have the heart to post this photo to Everything Else category. I think it is a landscape at least for more than half image. If I made a mistake again I ask the moderators please move it.
In this image it is summerized the history of this location isolated by a steep ravine that surrounds it. Life began when the caves and the cave houses in front of the ravine were inhabited since prehistoric times; then followed ancient houses built with tuff blocks overlapping until the Middle Ages when concrete houses began to creep in and now they occupy the intire top of the hill. It is a landscape different from all the others: dwellings stratified over many thousend of years, tighten together, one on top of the other, mixed ed intersected; built with very different materials like rocks, tuff blocks, mortar, terracotta briks, concrete.
On the right two rock churches, the smaller entirely dug into the rock, the bigger only partially.

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I preferred a low contrast, is it enough?

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Z 7 ii, Nikkor Z 28-75mm at 48mm - f/11, 1/750 , ISO 1600 hand helded soon after sunset


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Hi Giuseppe, What a fine image you have shared with us. A really wonderful intersection of the natural world and the built up world, ancient and modern. Again the feeling of cubism is present. So much detail for the eye to wonder through. Overall though I wonder if you are loosing something by going to a wider scene instead of going the other way and giving us a closer look to this wonderful place… Nice work!

The cliffs are great Giuseppe. It is amazing the buildings can stand for so long on that edge. I love the historical feel of this image.

Giuseppe,

This is a fascinating photograph. So much intricate detail. It needs to be printed BIG so that all the details can be enjoyed.

Guiseppe, the details here are amazing. Fascinating how the cliffs below coordinate with the structures above, with the exception of that “modern looking” structure near the top left corner. This would make a wonderful puzzle. Have you thought about a slight crop off the top, or some burning-in to reduce the visual impact of those modern buildings?

@guy, yes from now I will show closer look of the old town in Everything Else.
@Ed_Williams and @Youssef_Ismail thanks I am very glad that you have appreciated this photo.
@Mark_Seaver I have followed your advice, for me the image is certainly improved cutting the modern houses in the top.

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@Giuseppe_Guadagno I really like this version! Quite lovely!