Подбирая фотографии для блога, на Flickr я познакомился с фотографом из Афин. И хотя фотография для Джона – это всего лишь хобби, его работы пользуются большим успехом. Я попросил его сделать отдельный фотосет на тему Греции – как он ее видит, пообещав опубликовать, чтобы он ни прислал.
К своему сету Джон приложил письмо. Привожу его дословно. А для тех, кто не очень дружит с английским, чуть позже выложу перевод.
There’s a lot of wonderful places around the world. There are beautiful summer resorts with ideal hotels and crystal clear sea waters, emerald beaches, magical landscapes.
What is it then that makes Greece so unique?
What is it that makes it different?
I think it’s the sense of history. Wherever tourists and foreigners go in Greece they know that they walk or stay where other people have also walked or stayed thousands of years ago. They sail and swim in the same sea the ancients did, they pray in churches and chapels used for the same purpose hundreds of years ago and in many cases built upon the ruins of ancient temples.
This kind of history, this continuity, gives people the sense that by choosing Greece for a shorter or longer vacation they make themselves part of history in the making. Whatever is around them is old and well aged, tried by the elements of Nature through the centuries.
A red poppy in the fields just doesn’t feel the same with a red poppy blossoming within the ancient cemetery of Keramikos in downtown Athens.
The sun going down behind the ancient columns of God Poseidon’s Temple, at Sounion, is not exactly like any other sunset anywhere in the world – it’s a sunset charged with the history of the place.

Сунион - единственное место, которое я знаю, где люди готовы платить за то, чтобы полюбоваться закатом
Продолжение следует… А для тех, кому интересно больше, страничка Джона на Flickr
Photos by John D. Carnessiotis












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