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August 11, 1999, from Hasankayef, a village and archaeological site on the Tigris River in southeast Turkey, in Kurdish region. From an 11th century Selçuk fortress on the high plateau overlooking the river (not in picture) and valleys (depicted). Structure in foreground is part of the fortress ruin. The rock valleys have houses carved in them where people have lived for 2000 years or more.
Taken with 18mm lens at f/2.8 on Ekatchrome 100 slide film.

Venus is to the left of the Sun.

This is a combination of two exposures composited in Photoshop: a shorter (1 second) exposure for the sky and Sun but where the ground was largely darkened in underexposed silhouette, plus a longer (4 second?) exposure for the ground itself (with the sky cut out) so that ground detail is more visible. The scene is as the eye saw it, and is not a fabrication in Photoshop. The colors are enhanced (boosted) but have not been artificially created -- they are as the film saw them. A dark hole mask was added over the Sun to create the dark lunar disk otherwise washed out by overexposed corona and irradiation in the film.

From a Nikon CoolScan 8000 scan of the original slides. Re-processed in 2017 from original scans.
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August 11, 1999, from Hasankayef, a village and archaeological site on the Tigris River in southeast Turkey, in Kurdish region. From an 11th century Selçuk fortress on the high plateau overlooking the river (not in picture) and valleys (depicted). Structure in foreground is part of the fortress ruin. The rock valleys have houses carved in them where people have lived for 2000 years or more. <br /> Taken with 18mm lens at f/2.8 on Ekatchrome 100 slide film.<br /> <br /> Venus is to the left of the Sun.<br /> <br /> This is a combination of two exposures composited in Photoshop: a shorter (1 second) exposure for the sky and Sun but where the ground was largely darkened in underexposed silhouette, plus a longer (4 second?) exposure for the ground itself (with the sky cut out) so that ground detail is more visible. The scene is as the eye saw it, and is not a fabrication in Photoshop. The colors are enhanced (boosted) but have not been artificially created -- they are as the film saw them. A dark hole mask was added over the Sun to create the dark lunar disk otherwise washed out by overexposed corona and irradiation in the film.<br /> <br /> From a Nikon CoolScan 8000 scan of the original slides. Re-processed in 2017 from original scans.