Frozen, partially
Frozen canes, just in reflections
Frozen poles, in their erections
Frozen shards on frozen water
Frozen ducks without their daughter
Pictures shot in Irchel park, Zurich
if you gaze into the abyss…
He who fights with monsters
might take care lest he thereby
become a monster.
And if you stare for long
the abyss stares back
Beyond Good And Evil. Friedrich Nietzsche.
This was the last episode of this picture series shot in Lisbon and surroundings over Christmas 2022. All episodes:
1. Look up (from Fri, 10.2)
2. No Western than this (from Sun, 12.2)
3. Memory of water (from Wed, 15.2)
4. Atlantic at the end (from Fri, 17.2)
5. The essence of Tejo (from Sun, 19.2)
6. Winter shores (from Wed, 22.2)
7. Heroes of the sea (from Fri, 24.2)
8. Tejo (from Sun, 26.2)
9. Seamen (from Wed, 1.3)
10. Foreground diversions (from Fri, 3.3)
11. Astronomic observation in Lisbon (from Sun, 5.3)
12. if you gaze into the abyss… (from Wed, 8.3)
Blue Crete
Fishes underwater, cormorants above water, bound by all the blue shades of Cretan waters
This is the new episode of the reportage Crete:Kingdom of Candia. Click each picture to open it full size. Previous episode(s):
1. Once upon the time in the Kingdom of Candia
2. Gramvousa ochre and turquoise
4. Go West: Falassarna shores of Crete
5. Balos lagoon, a royal beauty
6. Balos, all the colors of water
7. Visitors (or not) in the Mediterranean Sea
8. The only good nation is Imagination
A lucky underwater encounter
Underwater, while snorkeling 1 km away from the shores of Agia Fotia (Lybian sea), non human eyes gazed at me.
A turtle was behind me: Caretta caretta first time encounter in my life.
I followed its trail, with its slow and peaceful underwater cruising
It pointed to the surface to quickly breath air above the surface…
…and then it disappeared in the blue abysses south of Fotia
This is the new episode of the reportage Crete:Kingdom of Candia. Click each picture to open it full size. Previous episode(s):
1. Once upon the time in the Kingdom of Candia
2. Gramvousa ochre and turquoise
4. Go West: Falassarna shores of Crete
5. Balos lagoon, a royal beauty
6. Balos, all the colors of water
7. Visitors (or not) in the Mediterranean Sea
Visitors (or not) in the Mediterranean Sea
This year snorkeling surprised with many encounters I supposed not usual in the Mediterranean sea. Common species of Red and Indian-Pacific seas were not rare in the Greek and Libyan sea of Crete in 2022
Sea urchins with very long (mildly venomous) needles
Red Lionfish (venomous, too) on both north and south shores
The good old, local Octopus
A delicious, Mediterranean cuttlefish
Barracuda, also (?) common the Mediterranean sea
This is the new episode of the reportage Crete:Kingdom of Candia. Click each picture to open it full size. Previous episode(s):
1. Once upon the time in the Kingdom of Candia
2. Gramvousa ochre and turquoise
4. Go West: Falassarna shores of Crete
