Places: Photography
I often do not travel with a camera, and even when I have one with me
I often forget to take any photographs, as I am so fascinated
by the place or the people I am talking to.
Looking through a viewfinder lens you miss so much and
restricts your view, and as someone once said to me which
is probably true I have an incredible visual memory

Icaria car wrecks and leaves © ® 2015

Mountains Andalucia Pylons mountains Andalusia

One of the beaches on Samos 2015

House Samos 2015

Window Samos 2015 Lane to the sea Samos 2015

Madrid shop 1990

Blue dome blue 2015

Under roof Ios 2015 Windmill Mykonos 2015

Church Santorini 2015 Church top Mykonos 2015

Column Hera's temple Samos 2015 Ships wake leaving a Greek Island 2015

Roof flowers Ios 2015 Dog modelling Mykonos 2015
Window Ikaria 2015 House ruin Ikaria 2015
Ancient settlement Ios 2015 Sun building Santorini 2015

Steps Samos 2015 Tree and sea Samos 2015

Street Samos 2015 Castle Samos 2015

Brussels street corner

Sky columns Ephesus 2003 Marble Way Ephesus 2003

Library Ephesus 2003

Pelican Mykonos 2003
Amazing you could still take a shot in Mykonos then without the crowds, people everywhere,
Though still much busier even then, than the first time I was there
and backpacked around the Mediterranean with a friend

Horse riding stables Mykonos 2003 not that I rode there just walked past
I am probably going to set up another section in places or on the photography menu
for Ephesus and maybe for Mykonos or several of the Cyclades and Olympos, Turkey. I seem to have many photographs
from my last trip the ones before and the first time I travelled round the Mediterranean with a friend

Leonardo da Vinci statue, Milan 2003

Ampitheatre, Ephesus 2003
Still working on more images and separate sections for some.

Well & graffiti, Venice 2003
Find this shot interesting because of the contrast, Renaissance well, corrugated fence and graffitti

Istanbul 2003

Olympos, Turkey ruins in the trees 2003
Amazing place a whole ancient Greek city overgrown with trees,
it also has above in the side of a mountain fires burning that have for the last 2,5000 years,
when I was there I was told it was one place in myth where Hephaestus, smith to the Greek gods
and husband to Aphrodite had his forge, apparently another legend says it is Chimera which Homer mentions in The Iliad.
Though the bit about the Chimera, I only just learned looking up the spelling for Hephaestus.

Sky arch Ephesus 2003
This is in the Ephesus section I am working on, it makes me think of some of James Turrell's work,
the land art pieces, framing the big blue.
Russell Hand © ®