Same places, new images...

Always new views to watch. Walking with a pro photographer is always bringing in new ways to look at familiar things on the island, but with fresh and new eyes...

Walking to the angel...

The island often reminds me of those days, when visited by a cancer, I had to go somewhere and talk to make a choice and I am close to the steps I took, to at least go and have a chat with the angel of angels. It was a long and wonderful walk on paths through the rising hills and valleys and roads and the island showed it's stunning beauty, consoling a worried mind... 

AT THE CRACK OF DAWN

HAZY LIGHT IN THE VALLEY

THE BELLS WERE RINGING

FRIENDS ON THE ROAD

STILL HAZY AND MAJESTIC

ANOTHER LONER BUT MIGHTY PROUD

LOVE IN A BRIEF CONTEXT

REWARDS

TAXIARXIS, MIRACLE MAN

Waiting and signs of Spring passing by...

 Waiting for fish to catch. World problems to be solved. While signs of Spring is heavily pouring by. It is like all is hibernating. Frozen souls waiting for the sun to come and warm me and everyone else...

From the Lesvos light that I need so much...

...and presumably others as well. I had a special lense that day, when I was involved with the proud team of Molyvos. I could use the lens to focus advantages in the light we had, and I walk up the hill to the house several times each time of the day, in the morning, noon and starlit nights, with the Venetian fortress, to Castro, in focus. This touches me all the time, quietly watching over us and especially on this day in the beginning of December, when the sun and the leaves of the trees were still dancing a touching dance with beautiful costumes in green and yellowish lemon. "You are a romantic person, Torsten", I said to myself and perhaps yes and perhaps no, and why not in this secular world, and because it was like this. And I look forward to the new light coming, for me and for everyone...  

FROM THE FOOTBALL FIELD AND UP, 300mm LENS

I need a repaint and the sooner the better...

Not just boats need a repaint. I feel I do not cope with darkness and lack of light, wherever it is. This boat "cradle" is just waiting for new boats to paint and smell of new times to come and the island is resting for a while...

CRADLE IN A VILLAGE HARBOR

A PAINTER'S PALETTE...

Leaving the weekend behind, meeting a new and this will always remain...

I have always thought this church, in the village of Vafiós, to carry a piety that I cannot just pass by. Friends have got married here. I take a seat on the empty bench aginst the sun lit wall, wondering what this next week will bring...

DIVINE SIMPLICITY

LIKE THE BLUE AND GREEN OF THE SEAS

PEACE OF MIND AGAINST THE WALL

THERE WILL ALWAYS BE A FIVE TO TWELVE

More from also beloved Vafiós...

New corners to turn, new views and the same silence from the slopes surrounding...

TO LIVE ON THE SLOPES

SUMMER THIRST KILLER

CHIMNEY AND SMOKE WITNESSING OF LIFE

TO APPROACH IT, MAKES IMPRINTS

SOON KNOCKING ON THE DOOR

LE CHATEU DE SPANOU KATSAROS

Another wonderful neighbor, a bit higher up...

A very quiet neighbor, but colorful and friendly, alleys to discover and new corners everwhere. Vafiós, a whitepainted village on the slopes of the mountain. A place I always go back to, like the other day, when looking for tranquility.... 

Light when I came and a bit of Winter when I will be off for a while...

These incredible gifts of light over the sea. The mountains in powder snow suit, like to the tiles of roofs and ice on the sides of a murky pool. I know I will be back soon to the island of islands....

More from beloved Petra...

I found so many pictures inside of me that I wanted to look at them like this....

CARRY YOUR BRIDE UP THE MANY STAIRS TO THE TOP OF THE PETRA!

GREEN, GREEN, GREEN IN THE SUMMER

THEY DID NOT MIND THE CAMERA WHEN I ASKED

IN THE MOST FAMOUS CORNER OF THE VILLAGE

FRAPPEDES IN THE SUMMER

JUST A FAINT SMILE

BY THE WATERFRONT

Petra, a quiet and peaceful neighbor...

I have always had a warm relation to the village of Petra. It is so different from other villages by the sea, and that is a good enough reason to go there. Not just because of the precious Byzantine church of Aghios Nikolaos and it's colorful interior, but many alleys and roads and a great Platía where everyone meets for a drink before dinner or just a coffee break during the day. I know that Petra touches me in the Winter, becaue of it's silence and the days of waiting for the Spring and Summer to come...