Syntagma square

IMG_2539 [Syntagma square]

Having coffee at the roof garden of a five-storey building occasionally provides opportunities for extra, non-scheduled, activities like using your mobile phone for a snapshot. In this case, I found the view inviting for a panoramic shot of Syntagma square: the “Trade Mark” we could say of Athens, Greece. One can see exclusive hotels on the left and the Greek Parliament in the distance.
 
Photographed on July 6, 2016

_8010474 [Syntagma square]

The same square photographed from the opposite side on a weekday afternoon, on September 21, 2013

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Biarum tenuifolium ssp. abbreviatum

803_0463 [Biarum tenuifolium ssp. abbreviatum]

Photographed on Philopappou Hill in Athens on October 12, 2017

Spiranthes spiralis

803_0349 HF6 [Spiranthes spiralis]

Photographed on Mt. Hymittos on October 10, 2017



Detail

AAA4448 [Spiranthes spiralis]


A close up shot of a different plant showing flower details.

Photographed in Lavrio a couple of years ago.

Colchicum bivonae

803_0234 [Colchicum bivonae]

Photographed on Mt. Parnitha on September 23, 2017

Sternbergia lutea

DSCN2724 [Sternbergia lutea]

Photographed on Mt. Hymittos on October 06, 2017

Towards the end of the day

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A shot à contre-lumière taken late in the afternoon on a very hot summer day

Photographed in Legrena on July 24, 2017

“Two for the price of one!”

_8029822 [Full moon - Eclipse]

The picture above is a composite of 30 shots taken consecutively at an internal of 140 seconds with the purpose in mind to show the direction and the course of the full moon across the sky.

I was almost at the beginning of the shooting session when I started getting worried about the fact that I hadn’t seen the full moon emerge from the sea at the expected time and that a few minutes later I could see only a faint part of the moon disk. Were there any clouds there that I couldn’t see? I wondered. It was then when a passer-by approached and asked me: “Has it started yet?” “Started what?” I asked. "The eclipse.” she said. I have to confess with some sort of embarrassment that I had no idea I was shooting not only the full moon but also a moon eclipse at the same time! If only I had known! I could have used a more suitable lens to show eclipse in magnification.

Photographed in Rafina port on August 07, 2017

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Colchicum lingulatum

803_0054 [Colchicum lingulatum]

One of about 30 species of Colchicum found in Greece; all of them being poisonous whether dry or in any other form.

Photographed on Mt. Parnitha on September 5, 2017