Day 8 Pictures

This man was the one who was helping us craft our pottery. The kindest gentleman you will ever meet. It was hard though, since he spoke Greek, so his wife (or assistant, I'm not sure) translated everything he was saying for us. 

I had to get some photos of hands working with the clay, as well as the potters in the mix. They are a little dark, so I may edit them later, but I do kind of like the darker look some.

Some more guided hands. I love all the texture that is on the hands with the wet clay, dry, and the texture of the skin.

As you can see I really enjoy all the photos of hands. I really enjoy watching people create art with their hands. I also love the amount of material that is on the hands. It shows how we often need to get dirty to get something truly beautiful.

Hands again. Adding some details to the bowl to give it a little more details.

I really enjoyed this picture, because it was lighter, but it is also showing  two pairs of hands, with the potter's guided the student's.

This is a statue outside of the ceramics studio. I absolutely love how this statue conveys such emotion without any actual facial whatsoever.

Here is a successful panning shot that I got. I shouted for joy when I snapped this guy. My shutter speed was at 1/50 and ISO at 200. I also had to move my camera with the photo.

This woman saw us (there were about 5 of us at the time) taking pictures. I happened to get a picture while she has a huge smile across her face. I thank her for being such a sport about random people on the side of the road holding cameras and taking pictures.

Here is another statue. I like the intensely sad posture that is in this statue. I also love how the statue conforms to the rock that is underneath it. It makes it seem like a person was caught in this pose and just covered with stone.

I was walking back into the studio and the light was hitting these statues right on their faces. It really makes the statue just seem that much more alive and makes the actions much more intense.

This little guy was the studio dog. I happened to snap a pic right as his eyes flicked to the side, so he looks absolutely sad. There are so many cute dogs here that I just want to take them all home (you can really tell that I am a dog person).

This is my classmate here and we often pair up for taking photos. I got this picture with my 75-300mm zoom lens. I was able to really get up-close-and-personal.

I love the positioning of the hand in the photo. It is a gentle the firm technique. Again, I really enjoy the differing texture between the wet clay and the soft clay.

Here is a picture with the shutter speed quite fast. I was able to capture the smoke curling around the potter's face. I personally think this photo reminds me bit of Gandalf from The Lord of The Rings.

Here is a joyful picture of the potter. He was such a fun-loving kind of guy. Very humorous and always smiling.

Of course I had to snap a profile shot of him with his pipe. This was when we was letting a student (whois a studio art major - emphasis in pottery) throw her own pot. The potter was talking to Marios (our host) in Greek and all of us students were just snapping away.

A close up of the pipe. I also like that you can still see the texture of the dried clay on his hands.

This is when we went to Fira. I really like this photo because over the 30 seconds that I had my lens exposed no cars passed directly in front of me. So I have this look that everything is funneling into this other street. I also like how the passing lights lit up the street in front of me. Not too much, but not too little.

I also had this exposed for 30 seconds. As you can see cars passed in front of me so I got some nice red streaks in the picture. This photo is also brighter, since there were more cars passing directly in front me, lighting everything up. I also like how the traffic cones pull your eye a little bit, with the passing blur of lights.