54 Days at Sea — Santorini Part 4

Even though today isn’t a Fun Photo Friday, I’m going to concentrate this article on color, because Santorini is practically synonymous with colorful images. Just take a look at these backyards:

Or this ceramic store with brightly colored wares on display:

Below is an image I captured of a Greek Sphinx against the blue backdrop of the Aegean inside the Santorini caldera. The Greek version of this mythical beast retains the human head atop a lion’s body of its Egyptian counterpart, but you’ll note that this version includes female breasts, the wings of an eagle, and not visible in this photo, a tail consisting of a serpent:

Of course, as previously mentioned, it isn’t Santorini if you don’t capture at least some of the many blue-domed churches, and here are three:

The whitewashed buildings of Santorini offer up a great background even for duller colored subjects, such as this potted cactus:

But whitewash isn’t the only backdrop, as noted by some of the pictures above. Here is another example of some of the more colorful façades facing Santorini streets:

While not exactly ‘colorful’, I was able to capture this night scene of Santorini from MS Prinsendam just before we sailed away:

And finally an example of ‘local’ color rather than the play of light beyond mere black, white, and gray, is this neat door: