Crocus nivalis

AAA5304 [Crocus nivalis]

Photographed in Anthusa on January 2009

A mosque

_MG_5927 [a mosque]

One of the many mosques a visitor can see in The United Arab Emirates.
This one was almost in the middle of the desert by the road that leads from Dubai to Abu Dhabi. It was photographed from within the coach taking our group to Abu Dhabi.

Photographed on November 21, 2007

Nature's modern art

801_3732 [Biscutella didyma]

 
The seeds of the above plant [Biscutella didyma] are normally less than 2 cm wide.
In the photo above they were deliberately blown up so that details become more visible.

Photographed in Paiania, Attica, on April 02, 2014

Crocus cartwrightianus: A slide show

[Crocus cartwrightianus: a slide show]

Photographed in Attica between 2010 and 2015

We recommend that you watch in full screen if you can. 

Lycogala epidendron

8021814 [Lycogala epidendron]

A rare mushroom that develops on usually fallen tree trunks.
Each of the biggest "reddish bubbles" was hardly more than 1cm wide.

 Photographed on Mt. Parnitha on September, 2015

"Galileo”: a panorama

DSC5348-NX [Galileo: a panorama]

“Galileo” [see photo] was sailing rather fast very close to the shore below the Temple of Poseidon on Cape Sounio when I tried to take a picture of it but it was too big to fit into the frame of the prime telephoto lens mounted on my camera. I was about to quit in despair, when I remembered a piece of advice I had read on the Web. I right away turned the camera vertical and took three shots with a panoramic composition in mind. Fortunately, it worked. I wouldn’t like to have missed the shot of such a vessel.

Photographed on Cape Sounio on May 15, 2015

Delichon urbicum

DSC5212 [Delichon urbicum]

Photographed in Oropos on April 06, 2015

Podofomes trogii

8017957 [Podofomes trogii]

8017966 [Podofomes trogii]

Photographed on Mt. Parnitha on October 11, 2014