Jul-Aug 1999: Tomas, ggia, Syria.

The last years I am using as an avatar my photo from Syria (ie. my avatar in blogger profile). Today I am publishing some photos from Syria.

I visited Syria July-August 1999 through the student exchange program IAESTE (it is an work-exchange program for students coming from technical universities). Using this program I was working in the university of Aleppo (Syria). Travelling / living in Syria was one of the best and memorable experiences. One of the friends that I have made in Syria was Tomáš Truneček (Czech) which you can see together with me in the last 2 photos and in the 2nd photograph with the arabs. Lately (April 2007) while visiting Prague I visited Tomáš. Now he is a manager of a journal for dentists in the firm Stomateam. ;-)

Photographically speaking I find interesting the first 2 photos, but in the first photo I don't like that the fingers of the arabs are cropped. In the second photograph I like the composition of the people.

22-Apr-1998: Athens vs middle ages.

A video about Imvros - Gökçeada island: "Imvros & Tenedos a glimpse of home".

The video "Imvros & Tenedos a glimpse of home" is about the Islands of Imvros/Gökçeada and Tenedos/Boczaada that belong to Turkey and the human rights of the native Greek habitants of the island. In September 2006 this video has been distributed to the European Parliament this week. I published in my previous post many photos of Imvros island. From this video you can find more information about the island (it is in english language).

Borders between Greece / Turkey (Samothrace - Imvros / Gökçeada).

This is a view of Samothrace island/Greece from Imvros island/Turkey.

This is a view of Imvros island/Turkey from Samothrace island/Greece.Somewhere in the sea there are the borders between Turkey/Greece.

May-2007: Old ruined Greek school at Tepeköy, Imvros (Gökçeada), Turkey.

This is the old/ruined Greek school at the village of Tepeköy.

May-2007: Tepeköy, Imvros (Gökçeada), Turkey.

At the map of Imvros at Google maps, you can see the village Tepeköy from where all the photos of this post are from.

May-2007: Dereköy, Imvros (Gökçeada), Turkey.

In the map of Imvros (Gökçeada) at Google maps we can see the location of the village Derekoy where all the photos of this post are from.

26-May-2007: Livunia Beach, Imbros (Gökçeada), Turkey.

Last weekend I was in Imbros (Gökçeada) island in Turkey. An I will post some photographs for my favourite beach in the island: "Livunia" beach (I don't know the Turkish name of that beach).

Livunia beach is at the west part of the island as you can see on the google map of the island. I like a lot this beach because it is isolated, without restaurants, cafes, houses etc.

Oct-2006: Coffe-house in Agridia (Tepekoy), Imbros (Gökçeada), Turkey.

Aug-2002: Portrait of Stratigula, Greece.

Update 14-Jan-2007: The above portrait has been chosen from the following photographs as we can see from the contact sheet below: Part of the photographic "art" is the ability of the photographer to chose the best photo(s) from a set of photographs.