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Photographing Greek Islands

On just about every postcard of Greece, every guide book cover—just about every image you seem to see of Greece, the view is almost the same: beautiful white buildings and blue shutters, domes, ocean, and sky. As an excuse to meander aimlessly here on Santorini (one of the most beautiful places on God's green earth), I decided I wanted to take that photo, one worthy of a guide book cover. It turns out that it isn't as easy as you might think.

While the picturesque white and blue buildings are everywhere, a combination of my past-its-prime camera and lack of photography skillz made getting a few shots I was really proud of a little tough. But from the oodles I took, a few turned out, which I present to you now.

(For full disclosure, I did use Photoshop* to enhance some colors on some photos (just brightness and contrast, etc.). But I'm told that photo people do that all the time anyway. And to be honest, the final product still doesn't come close to capturing the views that are all around.)

And just to keep things interesting(/boring for some of you), I had to get the random self- in as well. It wouldn't be a BdW travel post without a goofy arm-length .

Saturday April 23 2011

File under: travel, Greece

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on Sat 23rd Apr, 2011 01:09 pm PDT Juline said:
Awesome. The self-portraits are always great. You must have quite an album. But in the above four shots, #1 is my fave.
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on Sun 24th Apr, 2011 08:13 am PDT Horge said:
Happy Easter Wren (and BdW-ophiles who celebrate it)! I'm curious if you happened upon any curious Easter traditions in Greece today, or maybe even in the build-up to today?
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on Sun 24th Apr, 2011 11:41 am PDT EMoore said:
truly gorgeous
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on Mon 25th Apr, 2011 08:21 pm PDT Mark said:
I may have some similar shots from the early 90's when I was there. Glad to know somebody's been soaking up some sun while we endure even more rain. On the bright side, Ultimate begins soon!
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