Only if you're bored! Part 3. Greece this time. Same ol' P&S...
Greece is another of those potent cultural batteries which have powered civilisation. This visit was another of my boyhood dreams come true. To walk on the same ground as legends! All that architecture, those stories and ideas, received thousands of years and thousands of miles distant, now could be touched and relived in their original locations.
Athens, the Acropolis. From the shade at noon. While the Parthenon floats in the sky like a moon drawing wide eyed humans, the black dog sleeps against the wall.
The first steps into the complex of memorials, shrines and temples on top of the plateau.
View over Athens, with the Temple Of Jupiter and the Stadium.
Inside the Acropolis Museum. No flash allowed.
Theater on the Acropolis hillside.
The Athens Archeological Museum.
Augustus Caesar
The Charioteer, Museum at Delphi (on the left, that is!)
Theater above the votive treasuries and Temple of Apollo at Delphi
Back at the Acropolis. In ancient times a footrace began here on this path to the top of the Acropolis.
Reprocessed from small jpgs with LightZone.
Hope you enjoyed these!
Neil
Athens, the Acropolis. From the shade at noon. While the Parthenon floats in the sky like a moon drawing wide eyed humans, the black dog sleeps against the wall.
The first steps into the complex of memorials, shrines and temples on top of the plateau.
View over Athens, with the Temple Of Jupiter and the Stadium.
Inside the Acropolis Museum. No flash allowed.
Theater on the Acropolis hillside.
The Athens Archeological Museum.
Augustus Caesar
The Charioteer, Museum at Delphi (on the left, that is!)
Theater above the votive treasuries and Temple of Apollo at Delphi
Back at the Acropolis. In ancient times a footrace began here on this path to the top of the Acropolis.
Reprocessed from small jpgs with LightZone.
Hope you enjoyed these!
Neil
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Nice to get your comment, Awais!
What's interesting, too, is the different qualities of light in different geographical locations. In Egypt the light is overpowering, flooding, as if to make up for the emptiness of the sky and the land of rain.
In China the light fights with forces of dust, smoke and pollution.
In Greece the light is penetrating as inspiration.
In Tanzania (I'll post some photos from there next) the light has the boom of a great brass gong.
Best.
Neil
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