Thread: Less than 24hrs in Athens

Yow! Yes, that's the ones I'm going to try to attmept, with my trusty Vivitar V3000S. I'll have to track down that 'Filopapou' hill and take the photos from there too maybe. Awesome shots, truly. Thanks for sharing!

Have a look in these websites: http://www.mccullagh.org/photo/1ds-12/parthenon-at-night http://travel.webshots.com/photo/1012023274014756417qBlvAxsLgP http://www.davidsanger.com/stock/parthenon-at-nigh t-from-filopapou-hill http://justasuburbanboy.blogspot.com/2006/03/parth enon-at-night.html http://nkour.wordpress.com/2008/11/07/parthenon-at -night-with-moon-eclipse-summer-2008/ etc... I am not a professional photographer but I have some...

Irrelevant and intolerant.

I didn't look it up, but if your hotel is in/near the Plaka you will have easy walking. There are a couple of ways in, but I'd walk around to the "main" entrance and walk up past the theater area to get shots of the "front" of the park area which will hide the museum in the back. Side shots of the temple to the virgins on the left and then from the back side looking from the museum upward...

There was plenty of scaffolding when I visited earlier this year, and will (I'm sure) continue to be plenty. The Parthenon was more-or-less completely encased, as was the main entrance gate. Please don't expect it to be empty of people: it won't be. But the later you can leave your visit the fewer people there will be. The official site: http://odysseus.culture.gr/h/3/eh355.jsp?obj_id=2384 does not make it...

You are simply not giving yourself any time at all, quite ridiculous, the Acropolis area is a quite extensive area of ruins. Scaffolding is present on some buildings on the Acropolis continuously for many decades, and that will continue for ever inevitably.

It does sound as if you are not interested in EXPERIENCING Greece or its sights in any meaningful way, merely in capturing the "best views" digitally. Have you lost the ability to actually feel and experience things first-hand, not through a viewfinder? Just wondering.