August is a crazy month to travel anywhere in Greece. Most Greeks leave Athens during this month for vacation. The country basically almost shuts down.
The beaches were packed in Kithira, and the waves at on beach were too high for swimming. The winds were near gale force. So, you had to travel to the other side of the island were it wasn’t so windy.
My unexpected capture of a gloriously, apocalyptic sky during a sunset in Athens.
“Once you have tasted the taste of the sky, you will forever look up.” – Leonardo Da Vinci
The sunset at Cape Sounio south of the Attica penninsula.
A few more photographs taken in the south of Athens seaside. I didn’t bring my regular camera with the special lens which is why there are more rays and flares from the sun. It is best to use the special lens when taking photos during the ‘golden hour’ which in these photographs is during sunset.
Μερικές ακόμα φωτογραφίες τραβηγμένες στη νότια παραλία της Αθήνας. Δεν είχα φέρει την κανονική μου φωτογραφική μηχανή με τον ειδικό φακό, γι’ αυτό και υπάρχουν περισσότερες ακτίνες και φωτοβολίδες από τον ήλιο. Είναι καλύτερο να χρησιμοποιείτε τον ειδικό φακό όταν τραβάτε φωτογραφίες κατά τη διάρκεια της «χρυσής ώρας» που σε αυτές τις φωτογραφίες είναι κατά τη διάρκεια του ηλιοβασιλέματος.
This very intense, hot and fiery summer is coming to an end. God only knows what is in store for the world in the fall.
Stay safe everyone 🙂
A view of the Saronic gulf from aboard a ferryboat, as night falls over the ocean and the ships.
“It’s the end of the day, but it feels like dawn, and a new beginning. It comes to me that both twilight periods are, in fact, symmetrical events on opposite sides of midnight, a cycle of endless creation and destruction, an Ouroboros.”
― Florian Armas, The Shamans at the End of Time
Happy New Month! ΚΑΛΟ ΜΗΝΑ! (kalo mena)
“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”-William Arthur Ward
The sun sets once again
Gratefulness and appreciation pour out from the soul
Fear and disappointment are concealed
As fires burn in the west
And snow falls in the east
A Life comes to an end
And a new one begins.
Ο ήλιος δύει και πάλι
Η ευγνωμοσύνη και η εκτίμηση εκχέονται από την ψυχή
Ο φόβος και η απογοήτευση αποκρύπτονται
Καθώς οι φωτιές καίγονται στα δυτικά
Και το χιόνι πέφτει στα ανατολικά
Μια Ζωή έρχεται στο τέλος της
Και αρχίζει ένα νέο.
Through the dark clouds
you will find gold
you think its over
its just the beginning
come and get your gold.
‘Know where to find the sunrise and sunset time and note how the sky looks at those times, at least once.”
– Marilyn vos Savant
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