Wednesday 8 June 2011

Open horizon


Pasaport Pier, Izmir, April 2009

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Simply breathtaking!! You should be on the move with your camera more often.. :))

aris.cs said...

Welcome Zuleyha! And many thanks for your comment - I will try to follow your suggestion. I must say I don't often take pictures, it is rather a case of occasionally coming across one on my way, and everything seems to be there, the frame, the angle, the light...

With regard to the above subject matter all credit should go to Izmir itself! For those who have not been there, it is a city of about four million people build around a vast bay. In terms of London, imagine an area three or four times the size of the West End, composed of water.

People commute across the bay with little boats. In other words, one does not need to leave the city to go to the sea, nor do they simply have visual contact with it because the city happens to be on a coast. The sea is an organic part of living in the city, and one comes across images such as the one above while doing ordinary things like going to work or coming back…