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Zappeion Hall

NIKON Z 7 + NIKKOR Z 24-120mm f/4 S @ 24 mm, 1/2000 sec at f/5.6, ISO 64

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We met up with some friends from Sydney who were also in Athens and spent a few days visiting some of the historic sites (Ancient Agora, Roman Agora, Panathenaic Stadium, The Acropolis, Acropolis Museum and so on)

Temple of Hephaestus

NIKON Z 7 + NIKKOR Z 24-120mm f/4 S @ 24 mm, 1/500 sec at f/4, ISO 64

Stoa of Attalos

NIKON Z 7 + NIKKOR Z 24-120mm f/4 S @ 24 mm, 1/60 sec at f/8, ISO 64

In the Stoa they also had an old school Camera Obscura (pinhole camera) setup showing a view of the Temple of Hephaestus. The first image is the projection inside the camera and the second the shot taken with my modern camera

Camera Obscura

NIKON Z 7 + NIKKOR Z 24-120mm f/4 S @ 101 mm, 1/125 sec at f/4, ISO 2000

UnObscured

NIKON Z 7 + NIKKOR Z 24-120mm f/4 S @ 42 mm, 1/125 sec at f/5.6, ISO 64

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Density

NIKON Z 7 + NIKKOR Z 24-120mm f/4 S @ 120 mm, 1/10 sec at f/11, ISO 64

Some tight zoomed in views of the city of Athens taken from atop Filopappou Hill

There are no sky scrapers here like many other modern cities. I’d estimate the tallest buildings are perhaps 10 stories high. But the consistent density of buildings just goes on and on into the distance

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Density II

NIKON Z 7 + NIKKOR Z 24-120mm f/4 S @ 120 mm, 1/125 sec at f/8, ISO 280

Filopappou Hill Panorama

NIKON Z 7 + NIKKOR Z 24-120mm f/4 S @ 58 mm, 1.30 sec at f/8, ISO 64

The central part of a 16 frame stitched panorama taken of the Acropolis and surrounds from Filopappou Hill

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Filopappou Hill View

NIKON Z 7 + NIKKOR Z 24-120mm f/4 S @ 58 mm, 1 sec at f/8, ISO 64

The second sunrise location was Filopappou Hill. It’s higher and is further away (and more of a climb up to the top) but it has an excellent vantage of the Parthenon, the Odeon of Herodes Atticus (bottom left) and the rear side of the Acropolis

Alas with quite a lot of cloud about sunrise was a bit meh (it just got progressively brighter) and the best it got was this subtle shades of pink around 6:05AM

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