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The Central Market at Monistraki, Athens Greece
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I got up at 4 am and took a cap to the market to be there before the regular customers. The vendors were busy setting up. I highly recomend this place for anyone going on holiday to Greece.
You snooze, you loose! |
Hey I have seen those heads before!
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Excellent, the pig on the left looks alive... they're like comedy and tragedy masks.
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A fe more before I got o bed!
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Were you behind the counter or do they work out front of the cases?
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That first pic begs for some photoshop comments.
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These are all so fantastic... wow!
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Good pictures. What are you shooting with?
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Great Chris! Keep 'em coming!
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Wonderful insight into something most of us will never see. Great job.
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I don't travel with everything but pick gear based on what I think my needs will be. For my upcoming trip to Africa I am trying to decide if I can take my 800mm lens as it is rather big for carryon and I need to pack my big Gitzo tripod in the checked gear. Decisions, decisisons! |
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Oh, and good shots, did some nice shots in a fish market in Portugal myself. Not with "pro" gear though. |
Chris those are some glorious photos. You are a master.
On a more mundane level, they remind me of the meat & fish markets I saw as a child - Smithfields and Billingsgate respectively. We were always up early as children, similarly when staying with my Grandparents but never early enough to catch the men at the markets setting up - they worked through the night! The Upper Classes used to come out of Covent Garden Opera House and be able to go for a drink with the stall holders from the fruit & veg market, as they escaped England's punitive licensing laws due to the topsy turvy hours they kept. And more recently it reminds me of Bradford meat & fish market, and Leicester covered market, much of both is now halal. Both lovely places to walk around (Bradford being far larger and therefore more time consuming) whether you are a shopper, a browser or just a sight-seer. Thank you. |
Oh how splendid!! How jealous am I? Aaaah!
Great photos Chris....I might spend my spare time dreaming of being there and I might not. Ok I do. Live it up for me! :) |
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