10 of my favourite photos from 2024
SOME STORIES TO REMEMBER
2024 was a rather strange year. Just a few good news around the globe and not an overall optimistic time of our lives.
On a more personal note, 2024 was an easy year for me and a time to do some housekeeping, in every level of my life.
MY PHOTOGRAPHY IN 2024
My photography suffered a bit in 2024, mostly because there were just a few trips in this year and just one of them being a strict photography one.
Even so, I had a hard time picking just 10 of them, so I will present you some runner-ups as well.
Enjoy!
METEORA
Meteora is a place you have to visit once in your lifetime. We are lucky enough to live in this blessed by the Gods country, so it is relatively easy to visit this surreal place.
My favourite image from Meteora is this one, taken during sunset. A lonely visitor is enjoying the view from the top of a rock, many meters higher than the Holy Monastery of Rousanou.
Runner-up is this image, taken with the help of my drone, that shows what left behind from a small hole on a giant rock, many hundreds meters above the air. It is an unbelievable site to watch; you cannot {at least I can’t) imagine how is it even possible to climb up there, so many many years ago and not only make it, but stay there and paint all of these beautiful iconographies.
This is located on a rock across the The Great Meteoron Monastery and s ince it is hard to spot, I wanted to have a close image of it. What I didn’t expect was that from this particular angle, it looks like an angry face guarding the valley below.
GUITAR MAGICIAN
Mr. Piperidis is one of the few greek masters in his field. He creates guitars from scratch and the result is magnificent. Being a luthier is no easy task and let me tell you: each guitar is truly a piece of great art.
I wanted to show the details of the handcraftmanship of each guitar and struggled to find an angle that does exactly that. So, I came up with this idea and the result is wonderful, in my humble opinion. The viewer sees the unique wooden patterns at the back of the guitar, while at the same time can understand the dynamic shape of the organ. Total blackness helps in that direction.
NATIONAL DAY FLYOVER
Some years ago, I stumbled upon the work of mr. Mike Kelley. He has created a famous photograph of all the take-offs from LA airport in a timeframe of 7 hours in the same day. I wanted to do a similar photo, but not from an airport. So, on Greece’s National Day, I walked at the top of Panathenaic Stadium and waited for the planes and helicopters to fly over the Acropolis. The whole process took about 4 hours and this is the result.
Even though I am quite satisfied with the result, I will try that again this year, because I didn’t really like the weather that day nor the placement of each aircraft inside the frame. It would have been very easy to manipulate the position of course, so that the outcome would be more symmetrical or aesthetically pleasing to me, but this was not what I was after.
At 09:45, almost half an hour before the first airplanes appear on the attic sky, a seagull made an inspection of the area. Quite a rare sight, since we are a bit less than 6 km from the sea. I really like the light as the sun lets up only the Acropolis rock and the detail of the flying seagull, but this day was our National Day, so I prefer the other photo better.
KALOPSIA SUNGLASSES
This was the first time I collaborated with Patricia. She is a young woman with personality and this personality reflects a lot on her brand, Kalopsia.
Every model of these sunglasses has so many admirable details that had to be shown. At the same time, this is a luxury brand and therefore I decided to choose one of them and present it on top of a podium. A nice touch is that the podium is actually the case in which the sunglasses are delivered.
ZAPPEION BEAUTY
In an unlikely turn of events, I found myself in Zappeion Megaron to take photographs of a political event.
This is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful and special buildings in Athens and, while the event was not really artistically interesting by itself, it gave me the opportunity to wander around and I managed to take this photograph, which I really love. The tranquility of the caryatids is aligned with the still flag in the windless Attic sky.
TO THE MOON
I have to admit, the moon attracts me more than it should, in terms of photography.
Early one night, we were returning from a short trip to Saronic Gulf. While entering Piraeus, the full moon was rising. What a sight! All lights upon the moon.
DANCE OF THE NATURE
The first time I visited Balos I was just 20 years old. This year was my 3rd time and the feeling of awe is always the same, if not more intense. No photo can give you the sense of grandeur; not even this panoramic one from my drone.
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SWISS DREAMS
There are times in life that you never forget and this one might be one of them. My first time in front of a glacier. The couple can give a scale of the size of the glacier. While amazing, the exprerience was also devastating; the glacier has lost 1300m in the last 120 years.
MY LAND
Being born and raised in the holy land of Delphi say much more for me than any words. The fact that I don’t usually take photos from this part of Greece is just because I want to make a large photo trip to show the beauties of my land. One thing is for sure: olive trees are an important aspect of Delphi’s DNA and it has been so for thousands of years.
SPIRITS & GLASSES
There are times when I just want to take photographs, you know? It’s just a need that’s comes from inside me and I guess that is true for many photographers out there. So, in a case like this I just setup a quick backdrop and a light or two and snap photos of whatever lies around me in our home. 3 wine glasses in this example.
Cheers to a better 2025!