Milos church with pebble mosaics and moon

            This gigantic panorama comes from the U-shaped Greek island of Milos, where I and my family spent 6 wonderful days exploring the island’s beaches, cuisine, and architecture. In return, in the early evenings, I would selflessly allow the island’s many biting and bloodsucking bugs to feast on my newly gyro- and feta-flavored self.

The main subject here is the old town’s church, with its amazing views of the Aegean Sea (which are, unfortunately, not really pictured here, although I got plenty of other photos of the Aegean). For such a sparsely populated place (fewer than 5,000 inhabitants), the island featured over a dozen small (and some large) whitewashed churches perched in amazing panoramic locations. It made me wonder if parishioners had a hard time concentrating during the sermons. Or if they were built as snares to catch parishioners on their way to the beach.

Aside from the main subject, I have two favorite parts to this photo. The first is the couple on the left side of the church, striking what I believe is a candid but near-perfect Instagram-like pose while watching the sunset. The other is the amazing pebble mosaics composed built in between the tiles—there were a number of these mosaics sprinkled throughout the island, and discovering one after turning down some tiny alley was always a treat.

Taken on: June 10, 2016

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Camera: f/1.0, 1/30 sec, ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Aperture:	f/1.0
Exposure Time:	0.033 sec (1/30)
ISO:	200
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 6.6 (Windows)
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