Photos of Greece

About these pictures of Greece

This is a collections of pictures I have taken over the years in Greece.

They are used throughout this site to illustrate the essays on various places, and are collected here in thematic entities so visitors interested only in photos can find them easily.

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This entire web site began in 1998 as a mere collection of my pictures from Greece. Over the years it developed to a place full of factual information about the country.

Certain photographs fell outside the thematic entities presented. The themes and stories that can be best depicted through pictures with very little text are the subject of the pages I call "Photoscapes".

The Ancient Greece Photo album includes pictures from major archaeological sites and museums I have visited over the years.

The Places photo album contains mainly pictures of Greek Landscapes from the various islands and other places I have visited.

Some Panoramas of Greece are also included in this list of photos. As much as I would like to include more, their size makes the idea prohibitive.

The expert viewer will notice the difference in style and quality among various Greek photo groupings. These are the result of a gradual change in personal style, purpose of taking the pictures, and of course, multiple changes in equipment. Over the last ten years I have changed as a person, I have modified the way I travel, and have changed several different cameras.

The development of this web site has guided me to take many more Greek photographs than I would have taken otherwise. In the old days I only shot what looked interesting, while now I photograph anything that might look informative.

The change in equipment has also affected the way the photos look. I used to shoot with a Minolta X-700 in Kodakchrome 64, and Ectachrome 100 transparency film almost exclusively. The slides of Greece were then scanned and digitized for inclusion in these pages. While slide film produces extremely good quality photos, scanning the images was an extremely time consuming process and often the scanned images needed much adjustment in order to approach the quality of the original photo.

In order to eliminate this problem, I have been using digital cameras over the past seven years. While the time savings were substantial, the original one megapixel camera I used for Greek photos produced images that were of inferior quality, and thus much time was spent enhancing them. Subsequently I have gone through several upgrades in cameras and the quality of pictures as well as the ease of use has been enhanced substantially.

I hope you enjoy these photos of Greece. Please navigate to the various Greek photo albums using the navigation bar on the left side of this page.