Crocus cartwrightianus: A slide show

[Crocus cartwrightianus: a slide show]

Photographed in Attica between 2010 and 2015

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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

The Finish Line

DSC2163 [The Finish Line Fr1]

Marathon runners entering the Panathenaic Stadium

IMG 2055 [The Finish Line Fr2]

 Marathon runners reaching the Finish Line in the stadium

A short experimental time-lapse movie of Marathon runners reaching the "Finish" line in the Panathenaic Stadium during the 33rd Athens Marathon race on November 08, 2015


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Recorded in Athens on November 08, 2015

The morning sun

ΒΒΒ5553 [The rising sun]

The sun is rising over Schinousa island.

Photographed from the ferry boat taking us back home on March 31, 2010

The Artemision Jockey

8011980 [The Artemission Jockey]

A bronze statue of a horse and its jockey. It was retrieved in pieces from a shipwreck off Cape Artemision in Euboea. The young jockey of the galloping horse is believed to have held the reins in his left hand and a whip in his right hand. The contractions and furrows on his face, especially on the forehead, reveal agony and passion. The work is known as "the Artemision jockey". The pieces were reassembled to a whole in 1971.

It dates back to about 140 BC.

Photographed in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens (here) on January 18, 2014.