Editor Robert Keeley spent just over an hour at one of the world’s iconic monuments, the Acropolis in Athens. He tells how he handled his ‘one shot’ at photographing it.
One hour to photograph one of the world’s great monoliths – it sounds like something out of a reality TV show! But my mission to shoot images of one of Greece’s (and the world’s) most iconic sites, the Parthenon, was no television set-up. At the end of my tour to Greece our visiting party had just one day to take in the sights of Athens. Because we’d missed the Acropolis when we arrived, our tour leaders decided that we could see it on our last day before flying out.
There wouldn’t be much time available to prepare (it was all organised ‘on the fly’), and there would definitely be no second chances. The photographers amongst us would have no choices regarding the circumstances when we arrived (it was
planned we’d be there around midmorning), or the weather at time. What we’d see is what we’d get...
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