Thank you Paul for this marvelous tour of your great city! An interesting experience would be to feel the wind shaking up the tops!
I concur with positive comments. I visited it in 2005. It will surprise you with its cultural riches.
The most likely choice for the island of Calypso in Homer's Odyssey. Also very likely, the most ancient sailor Ulysses/Odysseus learned to sail directly to it from his island Ithaca on his way to Sardinia's Bay of Cagliari to purchase copper cheaply. He claims to have made this trip nine times. All this ca. 1200 BC.
I follow a site from a Greek island, population 3,000. Men and women post pictures daily, most of them of seascapes. A huge percentage of photographs posted by women make me think that the sea is falling off to the right, exactly as you describe it, in quite a few of them the tilting is severe. Those of men, tilting is very rare but still to the right. I am still trying to decide what it means but I am inclined to believe it has something to do with the two sides of the brain and with women is definitely more prominent.
I hope this helps.
Sarantis
Wonderful captures, super-realistic reposrting!
A wonderful set of appropriately B@W images with heart-warming commentary on a doubly cold subject!
Thanks Paul!
I love your Chicago in the Snow and happily surprised to see you using film!
The ancient Greeks would have stopped every war activity during the Olympic games. Politicians would gather in Olympia in an attempt to resolve their differences under the guidance of the local judges. Additionally, there were other pan-hellenic games in the intervening three years between the Olympic ones. The Pythian games took place in Delphi, the most important oracle of antiquity, acting normally as the ancient UN. The Isthmian games took place in the great seafaring city-state of Corinth. The Nemean games honored Hercules, the best mythological athlete and took place in the city of Nemea. It is important to recall that Pindar, considered the greatest poet of Greece, composed poetry exclusively on victorious athletes from all four games, thus elevating the games to heroic status and finding a chance to praise the places of origin of the athletes. These poems are the equivalent of photography and have preserved the memory of great athletes. Pindar made a special effort to write in a language accessible to all, while dramatically improving writing itself, just like a great photographer.
I am horrified that war pr********ns against Ukraine are taking place during the winter Olympics and other wars have not stopped as well. I hope that people realize that war has clearly become an anachronism at a time when our planet is severely threatened by c*****e c****e.
Not that it makes a great difference at this point, but from the perspective of the original Greek language Micro -meaning small or tiny- is the correct way to define these lenses, as in other terms derived from the same root, like microscope, micrometer, micron, micrograph, etc. Nikon has it right. If anything, macro- -meaning far or distant-should have been used as an alternative to tele.
Sarantis (a professor of Classical archaeology).
Photolady2014 wrote:
Well Happy Birthday, mine was the 7th and my brother is also a Valentines Birthday boy!
What a coincidence! Best wishes to both of you!
Sarantis (St. Louis, MO)
Best close-up! He ain't smiling!
Spectacular images, the best I have seen! Congratulations!
This posting is a great birthday present for you and a delight to all of us.
I will treasure it as a present for my birthday on 2/14!
It is such an appropriate match and a great idea! Cemeteries ought to be photographed exclusively in the fall! We would like to see more of them!
Great pictures on this rare tree! Thank you!
Lucky Chicago, to have Paul record it so beautifully! The city ought to love an exhibition of your images, preferably in large format. Please let us know when it happens.
Sarantis