National Garden | Athens
It was a cold morning with cloudy skies. We have been already deep in the second lockdown, due to COVID-19 and I desperately wanted to go outside with my camera.
So, I woke up at 05:30am, had my breakfast, filled my thermos with hot espresso, sent my sms for “exercise”, grabbed my camera bag and got out of my home.
The plan was to photograph everything that could caught my eye in the National Garden of Athens.
The National Garden (formerly the Royal Garden) is a public park of 0.15 square km (38 acres) in the center of Athens. The Garden was completed in 1840 and it was renamed to National Garden in 1920s. It is open to the public from sunrise to sunset.
It is just a 10 minutes walk from my house, so I was in front of the south entrance (behind Zappeion) at the first light of the day.
The empty street behind Zappeion
Mount Lycabettus | Surreal tree
After a while, the sky was crystal clear blue and I was entering the garden.
Green parrots have conquered the center of Athens
Even though this is not the biggest garden you have ever seen (it is not even the biggest in Athens), there are still some nice spots for photography.
Wet and lonely
The autumn colours lasted long enough this year
The famous little lake in the heart of the National Garden with its picturesque wooden bridge
Sun struggles to penetrate through the trees
The moon above the pair of trees
Spider web in front of the bicolour leaves
Leaves upon a bench
A leaf on the edge of a strange shaped branch
Part of the central lake of National Garden | Statue of Ioannis Kapodistrias (first governor of the new Greek nation), created by sculptor Ioannis Kossos in 1866
Stone patterns and leaves
Goldfishes park pond
In front of the giants | Trunks and light green foliage
Goldfishes swimming
Admiring the first Governor statue
Underwater leaves and sun rays and mud
TO CONSULT THE RULES OF COMPOSITION BEFORE MAKING A PICTURE IS A LITTLE LIKE CONSULTING THE LAW OF GRAVITATION BEFORE GOING FOR A WALK | ELLEN VON UNWERTH