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Honorable Award in IPA 2017 Competition

Pleased to announce that my series “Animal portraits” received an Honorable Award in the Nature - Wildlife category of the International Photography Awards 2017 Competition.

The International Photography Awards conducts an annual competition for professional and non-professional photographers on a global scale, creating one of the most ambitious and comprehensive competitions in the photography world today.

This year, the International Photography Awards received 14,273 submissions from over 165 countries.

Animal portraits

Super excited to announce that I have won the overall award in the photo competition of the Attica Zoological Park and the first awards in two categories.

Many thanks to the evaluation committee and the Attica Zoological Park for organising the competition and hosting the lovely creatures who are the protagonists!

I am sharing below a gallery with the images I submitted to the contest.

Cheetah observing

Cheetah yawning

Chimp doing gymnastics-I

Chimps hugging

Chimp as Rodin's "Thinker"

Chimp portrait

Chimp doing gymnastics II

Chimp portrait

Crocodile in black and white

Kri-kri breastfeeding

Eagle Owl doing tricks

Owl

Ostrich

Elephant I

Elephant II

Giraffes at lunch

Giraffe in black and white

Giraffe playing hide and seek

Red and Green Macaw

Zebra in black and white

Flamingo in black and white

Reptile

Lion yawning

Prairie Dog at lunch

Sad Lion

Tiger portrait

Tiger in black and white

Milky Way over the island of Kea

The Milky Way is a galaxy with a diameter between 100,000 and 180,000 light-years which contains 100 to 400 billion (yes, billion!) stars.

If you are in an area which is dark enough and the weather is clear, if you look towards the south you can see the milky way especially during the nights before, during or just after a new moon, when the moonlight is not strong.

I consider myself lucky: the skies above the Kea island, where I spent my summer holidays, were dark and clear enough to make the milky way clearly visible even to the naked eye.

So I couldn’t help myself. I am posting below the result of some nights’ work. Enjoy!

Lighting up the Milky Way

Last week I managed to shoot a photo of myself “lighting up” the milky way.

I always wanted to make such an image - I even bought a high-end LED flashlight for this reason (the Fenix PD35TAC which is mainly used for military and law enforcement purposes).

So last week, under the new moon, I found an area with a southern orientation which had both a clear view of the milky way and relatively limited urban lights, I set up my camera and tripod and tried several versions of the photo.

The one to the right is the one I like best.

Beware: my intention is to try various milky way images this summer, so stay tuned :-)

(More info: Canon 5d mkIII, Samyang 14mm, 20 seconds at f/2.8, ISO 3200, the lights in the background are from Ioulis, the capital of Kea island)

New additions in the "Window Seat" collection

I travelled quite a bit recently so I added new photos in my "Window Seat" collection.

Three Honorable Awards in the Fine Art Photography Contest

Happy to announce that I received three Honorable Awards in the “Fine Art Photography Awards” 2017. This year the contest received 6335 submissions from 89 countries around the world. Winners were selected by highly acclaimed panel of international judges, including: Tim Franco, Nadia Dias, Liza Van der Stock, Matilde Gattoni, Amélie Labourdette, Valery Klamm and Pierre Abensur. My awarded images were:

the series “Window seat” in the “Abstract” category
the series “Serenity in Lake Geneva” in the “Seascape” category
and the series “Animal kingdom” also in the “Wildlife/Animals” category.

The beauty of the Grand Place

I have been many times in the past (and most probably be many times in the future) at the Grand Place in Brussels, Belgium, and always wanted to capture the beauty of this magnificent place in images. My favourite time is dusk, when the square is illuminated both by the setting sun and the artificial lights of the buildings. I tried to capture the essence of the place with multiple image panoramas, which will allow me to to print really large prints, as well as single shot images of specific details.

See more at my Grand Place gallery.

Three Honorable Mentions in International Black and White Photography Contest

Thrilled to announce that I received three Honorable Mentions in the “Monochrome Awards” the International Black and White Photography Contest.

The 2016 Monochrome Awards received 8122 submissions from 81 countries around the world.

The awarded images were:

the image “Shipwreck” in the “Fine Art” category
the image “Nocturnal” in the “Landscape” category
and the image “Bird on Rocks” also in the “Landscape” category.

Four Honourable mentions in the ND Awards 2016 competition

Happy to announce that I received four Honorable Mentions in the ND Awards 2016 competition. The awarded images were in:

the “Fine Art - Other” category with the image “Bird on rocks”,
two awards in the “Night Photography” category with the series “Nightscapes”, and the image “Star trails” and in
the “Landscape” category with the series “Tranquility at the lagoon”.

Four Honourable Mentions in the 11th Annual Black & White Spider Awards

Excited to announce that I received four nominations at the international contest “11th Annual Black & White Spider Awards”:

in the “Fine Art” category with “Bird on Rocks”,
in the “Fine Art” category with “Pier",
in the “People” category with “Buddhist Monk in the Rock Church” and
in the “Still Life” category with “White Rose”.

Black & White Spider Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence in black and white photography. This year there were 7,556 entries from 71 countries. The Jury represented the industry's biggest names and tastemakers who reviewed the entries online before making their nominations and honoring 627 awards and 951 nominees in 31 categories.

Two Honourable Mentions in the International Photography Awards 2016

Happy to announce that I received two Honorable Mentions in this year's International Photography Awards 2016 Competition, which received 17,039 of submissions from over 162 countries.

The awarded images were:

in the “Fine Art - Landscape” category for”Bird on rocks” and
in the “”Night Photography” category for the series on “Nightscapes”.

Exhibition "Travelling" at Blank Wall Gallery

Many news outlets reported on the "Travelling" exhibition at Blank Wall Gallery.

Check out the links for some of them below:

http://www.nexusmedia.gr/travelling-in-blank-wall-gallery/

http://www.lifo.gr/guide/arts/3949

http://www.mikrocosmos.gr/travelling/

http://fmag.gr/node/6304

http://www.protothema.gr/city-stories/article/608569/fotografiko-taxidi/

http://www.elculture.gr/blog/travelling/

http://360views.gr/travelling-blank-wall-gallery/

http://www.athensvoice.gr/guide/events/travelling

http://www.briefingnews.gr/politismostehnes/travelling-ekthesi-taxidiotikis-fotografias-stin-blank-wall-gallery-1023

http://www.toperiodiko.gr/εκθεση-φωτογραφίας-travelling-το-ταξίδι-μέσ/#.V9lwXVci8qZ

http://www.e-daily.gr/entertainment/64081/travelling-omadikh-ekthesh-taksidiwtikh-fwtografias-sthn-blank-wall-gallery

http://www.artandlife.gr/Athina-thematiki_ekthesi_fotografias_travelling

http://www.vsmusicnet.com/2016/09/travelling-ekthesi-fwtografias-sth-blank-wall-gallery.html

http://allevents.in/athens/travelling/292221871155679?utm_source=org-rem-featured-campaign&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=org-rem-4&utm_content=event-page

Group Exhibition At Blank Wall Gallery: "Travelling"

The Blank Wall Gallery at Athens, Greece, is hosting a photography exhibition on "Travelling" with photos from photographers all over the world and includes one of my images from the lake of Bled.

The exhibition is from 10 until 23 September 2016.

Check out the exhibition on the site of the gallery: http://www.blankwallgallery.com/exhibitions-travelling/

Shipwreck "Dimitrios"

This is “Dimitrios”, a shipwreck stranded since 1981 on a beach near Gythio n southern Peloponnese, Greece.

Its rather bizarre to see it perched on the beach.

With my black and white interpretation I tried to strengthen the surreal feeling it generates.

Selfie under the milky way

Self-portrait in the car under the milky way.

(could not find any interesting foreground element for the milky way, so I thought "why not myself in the car?" - certainly not the most interesting foreground, but that's what I had available at the time :-)

Perseid meteor shower

Perseids from yesterday’s meteor shower: one (very) big and three smaller meteors brighten the night sky as they burn up during their entry in the atmosphere.

Milky way over the summer house

Milky way over my summer house at the island of Kea, Greece. Panorama made by stitching 8 photos.

Awarded entry in the International Fine Art Photography Awards

My series "Nightscapes" was awarded nomination in the Night Photography Category in the 2nd edition of the international Fine Art Photography Awards competition.

In 2016 Fine Art Photography Awards received more than 3994 submissions from 83 countries around the world. The winners were selected by highly acclaimed panel of international judges, including: Qingjun Huang, Carolyn Guild, Klaus Kampert, Pini Hamou, Rupert Vandervell, Pongsatorn Sukhum, Kilian Schönberger, Peter Kool, Lara Zankoul and GMB Akash.

See the awarded entry at: http://fineartphotoawards.com/winners-gallery/fapa-2015-2016/amateur/night-photography/hm/1936.

New publication: my Roses collection published at the Photographos magazine

Happy to announce that four photos of my "Roses" collection were published by the Photographos magazine in the July-August 2016 issue.

Three Nominations in the Moscow International Fotography Awards

Three honourable mentions in the Moscow International Fotography Awards (MIFA).
MIFA’s jury panel is comprised of an international pool of photography industry professional from photo editors, art directors, gallery owners and curators.

All three of my awards were in the “Fine Art - Landscape” category of the contest. These three projects were awarded:
- Nightscapes
- Tranquility at the lagoon
- Bird on rocks.