Three sites in Crete

The Venetion aqueduct near Knossos

 

Agia Triada

 

Tilisos

 

Three pictures from September 2008

Minolta Dynax 5 | Fuji Superia 200 | rescans

Plakias, Crete

The harbour: three-frame panorama stitched in PSE7, using the ‘auto’ setting.

Update:

This version uses the ‘reposition only’ setting.

Cretan sunset

Near Agia Pelagia on the north coast

1/500 s | f/6.3 | ISO 100 @ 300 mm

The heads of Cerberus

Detail from a Roman statue in the Heraklion Archeological Museum, Crete

Knossos

Much of the site is a fanciful reconstruction by Arthur Evans, an approach that would not be tolerated today. Nevertheless it’s an impressive place to visit, the epitome of the ‘pleasure of ruins’.

This is pretty much the end of my sequence of pictures from Crete; time to move on.