Grecian
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Imagine waking up to this view every morning. Some people have all the luck… Looking out over the Santorini caldera from Fira (the capitol). Santorini, Greece, is one of the southern most islands of the Cycladic group in the Aegean Sea. BEST VIEWED LARGER Related shots can be found at Santorini or Greece or Eastern Meditteranean. Featured in : The Beauty of the European Waters : 26 Oct 09 / Featured in : Dimensions : 27 Oct 09 / Featured in : Greece and all things Hellenic : 13 Nov 09
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Fira, the capitol of Santorini is on top of a very large cliff. The town hangs precariously at the edge of the cliff. Santorini, Greece, is one of the southern most islands of the Cycladic group in the Aegean Sea. Related shots can be found at Santorini or Greece or Eastern Meditteranean. Best viewed Larger. If you do, see if you can spot the ponies which carry tourists up and down the cliff path from the dock at the base of the cliff.
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The resort of Agios Gordios or Aghios Gordios is on the west coast of Corfu, Greece. Agios Gordios is a relatively small resort with a long sandy beach, and is a real find. There is plenty to do with an assortment of Tavernas and Restaurants scattered along the narrow high street, and along the beach. The beach is one of the most popular beaches in Corfu; the sandy beach is surrounded by impressive rocky formations. Corfu is the most northerly of the Ionian Islands. It is a green and beautiful place where the pace of life is not too taxing. BEST VIEWED LARGER Related shots can be found at Corfu or Greece or Eastern Meditteranean. Featured in : Bits and Pieces : 29 July 09
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The village of Oia on the Island of Santorini. Houses and hotels are all crammed together on the hill. Santorini, Greece, is one of the southern most islands of the Cycladic group in the Aegean Sea. BEST VIEWED LARGER Related shots can be found at Santorini or Greece or Eastern Meditteranean. Sold a Poster : Jan 09
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Looking out over the Santorini caldera from the lovely village of Oia. Santorini, Greece, is one of the southern most islands of the Cycladic group in the Aegean Sea. BEST VIEWED LARGER Related shots can be found at Santorini or Greece or Eastern Meditteranean.
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Blossom’s_Photo_Gallery The Heart of a Purple Poppy Anemone Also known as Grecian Windflower (Anemone coronaria).
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Halki is a small yet very charming island in the Dodecanese that is situated opposite the west coast of Rhodes. All of the pictures are composed of three bracketed JPGs converted to HDR (High Dynamic Range). If you would like a different Halki Calendar then look here. BubbleMail me with a note of the shots you want and the order you would like them to appear (remember to add a shot for the cover) and I will create a Calendar just for you. The price will be the same. You can also have any Calendar made up from my large collection of images, just start here Sold 2 copies on 30th Sep 08. / Sold 1 copy on 1st Oct 08. / Sold 1 copy on 3rd Oct 08. / Sold 1 copy on 8th Oct 08. / Sold 1 copy on 10th Oct 08. / Sold 1 copy on 21st Oct 08. / Sold 1 copy on 26th Nov 08.
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Photomontage – watercolour background with photographed textures and parts of various images to create a feeling of age and atmosphere. I’ve always felt spiritually `at home’ in Greece (particularly Crete)
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The Sun coming up from behind Nissaki. Nissaki is a small uninhabited island just outside the harbour of the village of Nimborio on the Greek Island of Halki. Halki is a small yet very charming island in the Dodecanese situated opposite the west coast of Rhodes. Camera: Canon EOS 450D (Digital Rebel XSi in the USA) BEST VIEWED LARGER Three bracketed JPGs converted to HDR in Photomatix. Related shots can be found at Halki or Greece or Eastern Meditteranean. Featured in : ImageWriting : 6 June 09 / Featured in : Greece and all things Hellenic : 7 Sep 09 Click here for a random page of photographs
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Early morning fog rolling over the hills into the village of Nimborio on the Greek Island of Halki. Halki is a small yet very charming island in the Dodecanese that is situated opposite the west coast of Rhodes. Camera: Canon EOS 450D (Digital Rebel XSi in the USA) BEST VIEWED LARGER Three bracketed JPGs converted to HDR in Photomatix. Related shots can be found at Halki or Greece or Eastern Meditteranean. Featured in : ImageWriting : 5 July 09 / Featured in : PostCard Style : 10 July 09
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Professor Gertrude van de Roos was a world-renown expert of Greek antiquities.
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Buildings hanging precariously at the base of the cliff under Fira (the capitol) on the beautiful Island of Santorini. The steep cliffs are 300 m (984 ft) high. See the Wikipedia entry for Santorini for more information on these fascinating Islands. Santorini, Greece, is a collection of small Islands which are the southern most islands of the Cycladic group in the Aegean Sea. BEST VIEWED LARGER Related shots can be found at Santorini or Greece or Eastern Meditteranean. Featured in : A Place To Call Home : 20 Aug 09
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Lazing on one of the small beaches in Kassiopi. Kassiopi is a lively resort at the North East corner of Corfu. A charming little fishing village, with a traditional port. Tourism has had its influence, but you can still find local fishermen bringing home the morning catch down at the harbour. Above the town are the remains of Kassiopi Castle. The remains overlook the harbour and continue around the headland. The castle has Roman foundations but the visible remains above the ground are Byzantine. The castle was subsequently fortified further by the Venetians, and survived sieges from the Ottoman Turks in the 1500’s. Today the castle is mainly ruinous, but parts of the walls can be seen from the coastal road around the headland. / You can walk among the ruins and the top ramparts offer an excellent view of the Albanian coastline. Recent efforts are being made for its restoration. BEST VIEWED LARGER Related shots can be found at Corfu or Greece or Eastern Meditteranean. Featured in : ImageWriting : 4 Sep 09
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The gorgeous Rachel taken on 9-5-09 in Hampton, VA.
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The Fortress of St. Nicholas, Mandraki Harbour, Rhodes. Mandraki, the military harbour and most likely the harbour of ancient Rhodes Town, was protected by a tower built in 1464-67 by Grand Master Raimondo Zacosta at the end of a natural wharf where other mills were located. The tower was turned into a small fortress by Grand Master d’Aubusson who built a bastion around it after the first siege of Rhodes. Today the fort functions as a lighthouse. Rhodes is a Greek island approximately 18 kilometres (11 mi) southwest of Turkey in the eastern Aegean Sea. It is the largest of the Dodecanese islands. Camera: Canon EOS 450D (Digital Rebel XSi in the USA) / Sigma 18-200mm lens / Exif data from the JPG / F-stop f/4 / ISO 200 / Focal length 18 mm BEST VIEWED LARGER Related shots can be found at Rhodes, Greece or Eastern Meditteranean.
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The impressive sea defences in Corfu Town on the beautiful Greek Island of Corfu. In the background, the old citadel (Palaio Frourio, literally: Old Fortress (Παλαιό Φρούριο)) stands atop a rocky island on the east side of the Town. Fortifications were built on this site as early as the 6th century although the majority of what is left today is from the Venetian rule during the 14th century and later the English rule during the mid 1800s. The site was initially a peninsula but the Venetians dug a moat to convert it into an island for greater security. Corfu is the most northerly of the Grecian Ionian Islands. It is a green and beautiful place where the pace of life is not too taxing. Camera: Canon EOS 450D (Digital Rebel XSi in the USA) / Sigma 18-200mm lens / Exif data from the JPG / F-stop f/4 / ISO 1600 / Focal length 18 mm BEST VIEWED LARGER Related shots can be found at Corfu or Greece or Eastern Meditteranean. /
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Seen from the Acropolis, Mount Lycabettus (In Greek: Lykavittos, Λυκαβηττός) is a Cretaceous limestone hill in Athens, Greece. At 277 meters (908 feet) above sea level, the hill (also known as Lycabettos or Lykabettos) is the highest point in the city that surrounds it. Pine trees cover its base, and at its peak are the 19th century Chapel of St. George, a theatre, and a restaurant. The hill is a popular tourist destination and can be ascended by the Lycabettus Funicular, a funicular railway which climbs the hill from a lower terminus at Kolonaki. Lycabettus appears in various legends. Popular stories suggest it was once the refuge of wolves, possibly the origin of its name (which means “the one (the hill) that is walked by wolves”). Mythologically, Lycabettus is credited to Athena, who created it when she dropped a mountain she had been carrying from Pallene for the construction of the Acropolis after the box holding Erichthonius was opened. The hill also has a large open-air theater at the top, which has housed many Greek and International concerts. On the left of the shot and quite a bit further back you can see the hill which contains Attiko Alsos Park. There are several fine resaurants here and the hill affords a fine view of the city. Information supplied by Wikipedia. Single RAW image Tonemapped in Photomatix Pro 3.2. Camera: Canon EOS 450D (Digital Rebel XSi in the USA) / Sigma 18-200mm lens / Exif data from the JPG / F-stop f/5 / ISO 160 / Focal length 40 mm BEST VIEWED LARGER Related shots can be found at Athens, Greece or Eastern Meditteranean.
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The Erechtheum (Greek: Ἐρέχθειον Erechtheion) is an ancient Greek temple on the north side of the Acropolis of Athens in Greece. The temple as seen today was built between 421 and 407 BC. Its architect may have been Mnesicles, and it derived its name from a shrine dedicated to the legendary Greek hero Erichthonius. On the south of the temple, the famous “Porch of the Maidens”, with six draped female figures (caryatids) as supporting columns, each sculpted in a manner different from the rest and engineered in such a way that their slenderest part, the neck, is capable of supporting the weight of the porch roof whilst remaining graceful and feminine. The porch was built to conceal the giant 15-ft beam needed to support the southwest corner over the metropolis, after the building was drastically reduced in size and budget following the onset of the Peloponnesian war. One of the caryatids was removed by Lord Elgin in order to decorate his Scottish mansion, and was later sold to the British Museum (along with a number of sculpture (also known as the Elgin Marbles) taken from the Parthenon). Athenian legend had it that at night the remaining five Caryatids could be heard wailing for their lost sister. Elgin attempted to remove a second Caryatid; when technical difficulties arose, he tried to have it sawn to pieces. The statue was smashed, and its fragments were left behind. It was later reconstructed haphazardly with cement and iron rods. Previous attempted restorations by Greece damaged the roof of the Caryatids’ porch with concrete patches, along with major damage caused by pollution in Athens. Scientists were working in 2005 to repair the damage using laser cleaning. Now, the five original Caryatids are displayed at the Acropolis Museum and are replaced in situ by exact replicas. Information supplied by Wikipedia. Single RAW image Tonemapped in Photomatix Pro 3.2. Camera: Canon EOS 450D (Digital Rebel XSi in the USA) / Sigma 18-200mm lens / Exif data from the JPG / F-stop f/5.6 / ISO 200 / Focal length 76 mm BEST VIEWED LARGER Related shots can be found at Athens, Greece or Eastern Meditteranean.
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The Parthenon (Ancient Greek: Παρθενών) is a temple of the Greek goddess Athena whom the people of Athens considered their protector. It was built in the 5th century BC on the Athenian Acropolis in Athens, Greece. It is the most important surviving building of Classical Greece, generally considered to be the culmination of the development of the Doric order. Its decorative sculptures are considered one of the high points of Greek art. The Parthenon is regarded as an enduring symbol of ancient Greece and of Athenian democracy, and one of the world’s greatest cultural monuments. The Greek Ministry of Culture is currently carrying out a program of restoration and reconstruction. The Parthenon replaced an older temple of Athena, which historians call the Pre-Parthenon or Older Parthenon, that was destroyed in the Persian invasion of 480 BC. Like most Greek temples, the Parthenon was used as a treasury, and for a time served as the treasury of the Delian League, which later became the Athenian Empire. In the 6th century AD, the Parthenon was converted into a Christian church dedicated to the Virgin Mary. After the Ottoman Turk conquest, it was converted into a mosque in the early 1460s, and it had a minaret built in it. On 26 September 1687 an Ottoman Turk ammunition dump inside the building was ignited by Venetian bombardment. The resulting explosion severely damaged the Parthenon and its sculptures. In 1806, Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin removed some of the surviving sculptures, with Ottoman Turk permission. These sculptures, now known as the Elgin Marbles or the Parthenon Marbles, were sold in 1816 to the British Museum in London, where they are now displayed. The Greek government is committed to the return of the sculptures to Greece, so far with no success. Information supplied by Wikipedia. Single RAW image Tonemapped in Photomatix Pro 3.2. Camera: Canon EOS 450D (Digital Rebel XSi in the USA) / Sigma 18-200mm lens / Exif data from the JPG / F-stop f/4 / ISO 200 / Focal length 21 mm BEST VIEWED LARGER Related shots can be found at Athens, Greece or Eastern Meditteranean. Featured in : HDR Photography : 18 Oct 09 / Featured in : Unwanted , Abandoned & And Saved Through Preservation : 25 Oct 09
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Looking over the Old (Medieval) Town of Rhodes, the oldest inhabited medieval town in Europe. The medieval Old Town of the City of Rhodes on the beautiful Greek Island of Rhodes has been declared a World Heritage Site. Rhodes is a Greek island approximately 18 kilometres (11 mi) southwest of Turkey in the eastern Aegean Sea. It is the largest of the Dodecanese islands. Single RAW image Tonemapped in Photomatix Pro 3.2. Camera: Canon EOS 450D (Digital Rebel XSi in the USA) / Sigma 18-200mm lens / Exif data from the JPG / F-stop f/4 / ISO 200 / Focal length 18 mm BEST VIEWED LARGER Related shots can be found at Greece or Eastern Meditteranean.
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Sunrise over Heraklion Harbour, Crete, 07:12 am, 24th September 2009. Crete (Greek: Κρήτη, transliteration: Krētē, modern transliteration Kriti) is the largest of the Greek islands and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea at 8,336 km² (3,219 square miles). Heraklion is the largest city and capital of Crete. Camera: Canon EOS 450D (Digital Rebel XSi in the USA) / Sigma 18-200mm lens BEST VIEWED LARGER Related shots can be found at Crete, Greece or Eastern Meditteranean. /
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All along the waterfront at the harbour in Katakolon, Greece, there are cafes/restaurants where we tourists can sit and sample the wonderful Greek cuisine, or just watch the world go by while enjoying a Greek coffee or a nice cool drink. A wonderful place to sit and chill and watch the fishing boats and pleasure boats as they go about their business. Single RAW image Tonemapped in Photomatix Pro 3.2. Camera: Canon EOS 450D (Digital Rebel XSi in the USA) / Sigma 18-200mm lens BEST VIEWED LARGER Related shots can be found at Greece or Eastern Meditteranean. Featured in : Greece and all things Hellenic : 13 Nov 09 /
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