Santorini is usually depicted as a blaze of colour. However, the beautiful Greek island has more than one face. Santorini has cool mornings, crisp shadows, and a million lungfuls of fresh sea air. Breathe in!
1. The land of red sunsets on a pale blue day. By Pilab.
2. Gone With The Wind. By Klearchos Kapoutsis.
3. Shadowy summer steps. By Jose y Eva
4. Small souvenirs. By Klearchos Kapoutsis.
5. Sun baked earth/cool shadows. By Wolfgang Staudt
These photos make me homesick.
Posted by thefty on 15/06/2012
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This weekend, I visited the seaside town of Walton-on-the-Naze. The sky was blue, the sea was sparkling, the chips were salty, and the pier was as retro-kitsch as one could hope for.
1. Bright toy windmills reflecting the sunlight.
2. Piles and piles of seashells on the shore.
3. Maniacal seagulls.
4. Fragrant gorse bushes lining the seaside paths.
5. Rows upon rows of colourful beach huts.
All of these photos were taken by me (my Flickr is over here).
Posted by thefty on 26/03/2012
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Hello! COLLECTIVE 5 is a weekly project involving readers’ photos. Anyone can join in! The rules, as well as next week’s COLLECTIVE 5 theme, can be found over here.
Here are this week’s (massively overdue) photos:
1. A sunny afternoon, by Leonore Schick.
2. Angolan Haze, by Richard Mundy.
3. Sunrise Tsaobis, by Caitlin Douglas.
4. A bright Boston day, by Randy Kightlinger.
5. ’Some people just hide from the Sunny Days!’, by Nikos Zarb.
My apologies for taking so long to post this album. It has been a crazy few weeks! In order to build up the COLLECTIVE 5 momentum again, I’ve made the next theme a little bit…different. Click here to check it out! (Come on, don’t be shy!)
Posted by thefty on 27/05/2011
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Architecturally speaking, Ios is a quintessential Greek island. I visited this year and could not stop taking pictures. I loved the clean lines and the bold contrast between blues, whites, and earthy browns.
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p.s. COLLECTIVE 5 is a weekly photo project involving your photos. Click here to join in.
Posted by thefty on 11/08/2010
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I’m thinking of summer days in the car with my father, listening to fuzzy radio as we go over the mountains, stopping by the sea and getting back in the car all salty (and full of lunch). In the winter, when I’m far from my parents, I think about being in that silver Toyota and I get nostalgic. I don’t know how to drive; When I get in a car, I’m always a daughter.
1. Golden fields and no horizon.
2. Groggy early starts.
3. A pathetic postcard.
4. Mountain roads.
5. Going home.
p.s. COLLECTIVE 5 is a weekly photo project involving your photos. Click here to join in.
Posted by thefty on 04/08/2010
http://top5photos.wordpress.com/2010/08/04/top-5-roadtrippin/
As far as I’m concerned, there is no point in summer if the beach is not involved. There is no pleasure in heat without the relief of cool, clear water. I guess this is why summer makes me homesick… for places that are no longer my home.
1. If I could choose, I’d be the gent at the back, wedged into the pink donut.
2. Don’t you wish you were here? Oh yes, I know you do.
3. As my dad would say, I just wanna drink that water.
4. Some people manage to look like a Greek goddess at the beach. Sigh.
5. And lastly, here are some happy beach legs.
p.s. COLLECTIVE 5 is a weekly photo project that I’d love you to take part in. Click here to read all about it!
Posted by thefty on 29/07/2010
http://top5photos.wordpress.com/2010/07/29/top-5-beach-bums/
Oxford: Small but perfectly formed. I really miss this town.
1. Take a stroll with a bike in one hand and an ice-cream in the other.
2. Gaze at the Radcliffe Camera under majestic blue skies.
3. Hire a punt and float down the river. (Pimm’s and strawberries optional.)
4. Laze about on manicured lawns.
5. Watch the students celebrate the end of exam season.
p.s. COLLECTIVE 5 is a weekly photo project on this blog. Click here to join in!
Posted by thefty on 17/07/2010
http://top5photos.wordpress.com/2010/07/17/top-5-summer-in-oxford/
Today is the first of June, the first summer month. Consider this post as a sun dance (i.e. a rain dance, but for sun).
1. The sun is the centrepiece of summer.
2. This beachside graffiti simply reads ‘The Summer’, in Greek.
3. Sunglasses and yellow light.
4. Long evenings at the beach.
5. Long shadows and exposed toes.
(By the way, I’m running a weekly photo project on this blog, and I need YOU to take part! Click here to submit a photo.)
Posted by thefty on 01/06/2010
http://top5photos.wordpress.com/2010/06/01/top-5-summer/
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