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Inside the Blue Mosque.

This is as good a time as any to explain the low-flying metal-work that's so very common in mosques - and which messes photographers up to no end. They were installed (in pretty much all mosques all over Istanbul) in the time that lighting was provided by candles or oil lamps. So you needed a lot of them, and there are a lot of wires hanging down to hold them up. This will appear in a lot of photos.

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Photo © 2010, Giles Orr

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