Whirling Dervish

Nice motion blur! Must have been dark to blur at 3200 EI.

remains one of your best ...

I think this is amazing. Great movement and energy.

Lovely. Seem to remember you having this as your avatar on RFF.

Next time try with color at Konya. National Geographic Magazine printed a color version on its cover.
How Dervishes can keep whirling long time with out going sick. Trick is to look at their hand while moving. I loved Blue Mosque picture very much also.

Umut
Istanbul

hpulley, Yes it was dark most of the light is from a single chandelier from a high ceiling, you can see the Semazen in the foreground is moving out of it. This was probably 1/15 sec.

Paul &Thomas, thank you.

Ezzie, I have many film Dervish shots 35mm, MF, and Xpan, unfortunately my avatar on RFF is digital. I plan to be shooting some more soon.

Umit, I saw the Sema in Konya 8 years ago, before I got into photography and when I switched to film I pretty much settled on B&W sometime shooting color. Now that I'm printing I will stick to B&W. Thanks for the mention of the Blue Mosque photo.

Nice of them to line up perfectly for you!