Behold! The Portara

The "Portara" (or the "Great Door") is the most famous landmark of Greece's Naxos island.

The huge marble gate is the entrance to an unfinished temple. The rectangular gate is around 6 m high and 3.5 m wide. It is made of four blocks of marble, each weighing 20 tons. 

The temple was begun about 530 BC by the tyrant Lygdamis, who said he would make Naxos's buildings the highest and most magnificent in Greece.

Lygdamis was overthrown in 506 BC and the temple never completed.

The "Portara" is connected to Naxos Town ("Chora") by a paved footpath.

If you would like to know more about this impressive landmark I can warmly recommend my sources: Sacred Destinations, Greeka and the website of Naxos.

"Wildlife Refuge"

An information sign somewhere in the middle of the "long and winding road" to the beautiful Kalados beach in the South of Naxos.

step by step (video)

I totally agree with fine art photographer Alain Briot who states that in order to represent the artist's creativity, intent and desire to create a unique world rather than just document the world we all have access to, certain aspects of an image (or video) like colors, contrast, dynamic range etc may (or even should) be altered.

I highly increased the saturation of this video because I like how that brings out the complementary colors blue and yellow instead of the greyishness of the original.

Kalados beach, baby! (video)

After a one hour drive along the narrow and curvy road to the South of the island of Naxos, Nina and I ended up on Kalados Bay, where I played around with my latest purchase, Weeview's SID 3D Camera.

It's a dog's life...

Django the dog... unchained!