Panorama Photo

Spalato/Split seen from a ship, the one that leaves Dubrovnik in the morning, reaches Spalato in the evening, to end in Rijeka/Fiume the next morning.
The attention it caught by the tower of the cathedral of Sveti Duje (Italian translation: San Doimo), an old octagonal mausoleum, enclosed in the huge Diocletian Palace, measuring 215x180 m.
In 2003, while cycling down to Greece, by chance I happened to be in front of the cathedral precisely when the bishop was starting the procession of August 15. I remember the strange effect produced, in the birthplace of an old Roman emperor, by the strange mixture of Latin and Croatian that I heard: Turris davidica, Turris eburnea, Ianua coeli, Stella mattutina... accompanied by the refrain "moli za nas", which is, "pray for us"... Ten years later, always on August 15, always by chance, I was to hear she same refrains at a crowded monastery on the shore of a lake in Bosnia... but maybe this will be the subject of some future panorama!

The Betrachter complains loudly for at least two reasons:
1) this is the 16-th consecutive sea panorama that I show. Yes, I know! I need to turn to other subjects, because nowadays you are "cool" only if you are able to produce variety;
2) I included the big ship on the right. This may indeed be a controversial point - its huge mass causes indeed an unbalance, and the picture "hangs" somewhat to the right. But that huge mass belongs to the personal memory of that evening (at least because it then prevented further photographing...), whence I would be pleased to leave it inside.

9QF, Nikon D7000, zoom 16-85, 80mm (x 1.5), ISO 640, f/5.6, 1/30 sec.