I love the composition of the first image: the thin layer of humanity, the ancient temple rising above the crowds, and the biggest layer: the sky. Did someone see almost the same scene as you saw 2,000 years ago? (without the baseball caps & sunglasses!) or maybe it wasn’t until much later that large crowds of people were allowed that close. For the second photo did you wish a third girl would sit back under the trees with her phone? 😉 Maybe she’s there, behind the tree on the right.
The heat is palpable in the fourth photo. Does the 5th depict a modern goddess?
It’s wonderful that these ancient sites have lasted so long, I suppose because of the dry climate and people’s respect for them.
Greetings from the PNW, Karl. 🙂
Dear Lynn, how nice that you are thinking about possible meanings of the subjects. That’s exactly how it should be. Of course, I would have loved to have a third girl with a smartphone in the picture. And it wouldn’t have been unusual, if there was a third girl sitting there, given the current mass of smartphone users 😉 But I had to be satisfied with two. – Athens antiquities are maintained very elaborately today. The Greeks are very proud of it. And I think they are allowed to be. Regards – Karl
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I love the composition of the first image: the thin layer of humanity, the ancient temple rising above the crowds, and the biggest layer: the sky. Did someone see almost the same scene as you saw 2,000 years ago? (without the baseball caps & sunglasses!) or maybe it wasn’t until much later that large crowds of people were allowed that close. For the second photo did you wish a third girl would sit back under the trees with her phone? 😉 Maybe she’s there, behind the tree on the right.
The heat is palpable in the fourth photo. Does the 5th depict a modern goddess?
It’s wonderful that these ancient sites have lasted so long, I suppose because of the dry climate and people’s respect for them.
Greetings from the PNW, Karl. 🙂
Dear Lynn, how nice that you are thinking about possible meanings of the subjects. That’s exactly how it should be. Of course, I would have loved to have a third girl with a smartphone in the picture. And it wouldn’t have been unusual, if there was a third girl sitting there, given the current mass of smartphone users 😉 But I had to be satisfied with two. – Athens antiquities are maintained very elaborately today. The Greeks are very proud of it. And I think they are allowed to be. Regards – Karl
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I found it interesting, that you saw in #4 kind of a modern goddess. Very apt remark! 🙂
And now you have The Three Graces. 🙂
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