From the archive: Fira Santorini 1979
This week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge (#164) is ‘Looking Up/Looking Down’.
Again one from the archives. The then small town of Fira, on the island Thira aka Santorini, built on the edge of a former caldera. Since 1979 tourism boomed extremely on this beautiful island. I feel fortunate to have visited it before that tourist flood. But each time I see photos of this place I long to go back. The beaches are perfect: volcanic ashes that does not stick like sand.
About the B4 retouch series:
I browsed my archive for pictures to publish. Some of them are partly retouched but most do have scratches, dust and stains.
The picture was originally shot with Pentax K1000 on Kodak Plusx, scanned from negative and tweaked using Snapseed and Marksta. Click the picture for a larger version.
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12 Responses to “From the archive: Fira Santorini 1979”
love those lines and the shapes (I see “Z’s)
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Thank you, I am happy you enjoy the view!
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😊☀️
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Excellent.
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thank you Sofia!
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You’re welcome!
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Nice!
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thx Sue
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how lucky to have been, before all the hullabaloo
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Yes, we were! We camped at Perissa Beach, and that was absolutely paradise, a few houses, a shower, a restaurant and that gorgeous beach.
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It was a popular place back then huh? I haven’t been myself but would like to go one day.
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Tourism started in seventies. So not too many hotels on beaches. Oia was a small village
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