Photography

International Photography Competitions

Αμα θελετε να στειλετε τις ομορφες φωτογραφιες σας σε διαγωνισμους φωτογραφιας τοτε σας προτεινω να τα στειλετε στα παρα κατω διαγωνισματα. Πατηστε τα ‘λινκ’ κατω.

If you are looking to enter your beautiful photos to a photography competition than I suggest that you send them to the following competitions. Just click on the links below.

http://www.contestwatchers.com/sony-world-photography-awards-2011/

http://www.snapalley.com/photo-contest/

Blind Photography

In this life we are constantly being judged and told by our peers or complete strangers what we can’t or shouldn’t do. We are given limitations and obstacles towards are goals. We become negative and fear that we are not good enough. Sometimes we inflict the negativity and fear on ourselves. This happens when we have very little confidence in ourselves and when we undermine our abilities.  Everyone has the ability to do something great and extraordinary, but only if we let go of negativity and do things a bit different from the majority.

I would recommend for anyone who doubts themselves and their abilities to watch the above video. It is truly inspirational and features a photographer named Pete Eckert. He is blind-yes blind!  Being blind does not mean that a person cannot be visual. He uses his heightened sense of sound to help him with his photography.

“Sound gives an image, just like light gives an image’ he says in the video.  He won the Artists Wanted Exposure 2008 competition and his work has been shown in exhibitions.  He was featured in Time Magazine and he is in a documentary on the American channel HBO.

‘Never underestimate the potential and power of the human spirit’- Anonymous


Suburban Excursion

Yesterday, the weather was great, it was about 25 degrees celsius, so I decided to take a stroll up to the North of Athens.

This is the affluent part of Athens where the Pizza Hut looks like this:

Gourmet Restaurant? No, it's Pizza Hut!

Where the houses look like this:

Greek Architecture?

Weird.

And where the shops look like this:

A church? No!

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New 7 Wonders vs. Ancient 7 Wonders-National Geographic
New: Christ The Redeemer-Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

 

Old: The statue of Zeus at Ancient Olympia, Greece

New: Chichen Itza, Mexico

Old: The Lighthouse of Alexandria, Egypt

New or old these structures are remarkable as they are examples of human intelligence, creativity and inventivness.

For the rest of the new and old wonders of the world click on the link below.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/07/photogalleries/seven-wonders/index.html#/new-old-7-wonders-christ-redeemer-rio-janeiro-brazil_18303_600x450.jpg

‘OHI’ DAY PARADE

Every year on the 28th of October kids from Greek schools all over the world from elementary school to high school gear up for the ‘Ohi’ parade. The day commemorates Greek Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas rejection of  the Italian Dictator Mussolini’s ultimatum on October 28th 1940.  This event  is very similar to the  Persian ultimatum to the Ancient Greek city states. The Persians asked for ‘earth  and air’ in exchange for submission to the Persian empire in the 5th Century B.C.. Modern Greece was once again faced with the same dilema.  Freedom was to be taken once again.  A proud Metaxas  rejected Mussolini’s ultimatum that if they are not allowed to occupy Greece then there would be war.  The rejection marked the beginning of Greece’s involvement in World War II. Greek troops-that included my grandfather and his brothers marched into Albania to fight the Italians who were with the Axis powers. The Greek army were to return from Albania victorious. Even though the Germans would later invade Greece no one forgot the heroism of  the Greek army and many believe that the victory helped to end the second world war.

After the war, my grandfather came back to Greece safely with his brothers with plenty of stories to tell..

‘ Watch this great video about ‘Ohi’ day:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkeiT8Gbysk

For a more informative read on this significant day read this very interesting article:

http://onemansblog.com/2009/10/28/oxi-day-how-the-greeks-helped-end-world-war-ii/