NG Crete April 2017

[elsid]

Some scenes from Falassarna. I visited the place in 1981. There were only olive trees where today you see green houses.

[elsid]

Forgot the pictures

[elsid]

The Master at work on the Omalos plateau

[Bent Hjarbo]

It has been a bit busy, here in the start of the Easter, so my contribution comes a little late.
It was very pleasant to participate in this NG gathering, we got a lot of input and knowledge sharing, to keep os busy taking pictures in new ways.
#1 Is taken in Omalos
#2 Gunver got bitten with the close-up photography of the flowers, here at the Samaria Gorge starting point.
#3 The White Mountains seen from Omalos
#4 A flower where we had our coffee in Omalos, Bjørn will know the right name
#5 A bug?
#6 Structures
#7 Testing the Nikon V1 on a flower

These pictures was all taken on our first trip to the Samaria Gorge

More to follow, will try to avoid duplicates

[Bent Hjarbo]

Here are some pictures from our trip to Paleochora
A nice town on the south cost, got coffee and lunch there as well.

#1 They were restoring a house, so something had to go
#2 A view in the small streets
#3 What to do when the view angle is to narrow
#4 A tree in full blossom on our way back, from here I found some other thing that Bjørn have don in his life

[Jakov Minić]

Thank you Bent and Elias for all these wonderful images of Crete.
It's as if i have been there

[Bent Hjarbo]

Thank you Bent and Elias for all these wonderful images of Crete.
It's as if i have been there

You are welcome, I have some more

[Bjørn Rørslett]

No problem showing more from the trip. I haven't completed more than 60% of the processing so far.

Df, 105/2.5 plus extension

[MFloyd]

Signs of the times

But at least the lady with the smartphone didn't "cut" your feet, and maybe she is a very capable photographer. 

Elsid, with the companions you had, I trust you learned a lot during this NG trip.  I will convey this as gentle as possible: you should make efforts to improve your photographic skills, especially with regard to the choice of subject, and more importantly: composition; with regard to post-production; your pictures go very often from over- to underexposed; not to talk about the colour balance and the lack of sharpness / DOF of certain pictures. 

In my view, this is much more important than the choice of the "tools of the trade".   

[Bent Hjarbo]

Discussing the finer points of panorama photography and stitching:  Bent and Elias at Rethymnion harbour.

This was the result. The pano of the harbour.

[Bent Hjarbo]

We where also in Chania
This is my evening/night pictures from the city.

#1 The harbour at night (Nikon V1 with Nikkor VR 6.7-13mm f/3.5-5.6)
#2 Starbucks (same camera and lens)
#3 The harbour this time D800 and the old 28mm f3.5 PC lens, a master of stars
#4 The roads just outside our hotel, can be seen in the background to the right
#5 We got live music one night when out for dinner.

[Bent Hjarbo]

Some more from Chania, this time in daylight.

A pano, and a couple of HDRs.

#1 A pano of the west side of the harbour
#2 The east side seen from the Naval Museum
#3 The courtyard at the Naval Museum
#4 The entrance to the Naval Museum
#5 A house that need a lot of care in order de be used again, Bjørn have som IR pictures from this house.
#6 One of the many stray dogs in Chania, and a door
#7 Fishing at the harbour, did not see any big fish, but lots of small ones
#8 This stuff was cooked and served as a salad, had a nice taste, with a slight bitterness
#9 I have a picture much like this, but taken in Pokhara Nepal, the winter in Crete was cold, so the snow was still in the mountains

[Jakov Minić]

Would you believe this was Crete is my ultimate favorite.
The back drop of the snowy calm mountains with the fussy Greek foreground is just amazing.

[elsid]

1,2. in the streets of Paleochora
3. luxurious mansion on the way to Paleochora

[pluton]

Elsid, I have particularly enjoyed your documentation of the architecture and architectural space of Crete, especially this last shot of the house w/ green windows.