BH Neely's Photography

Graffiti, Athens, Greece

There are a pair of schools near the apartment where we lived in Athens. (Makes me sad to say that in the past tense.) They were covered in graffiti. The way the sun and the shadow from the building across the street played across this wall of one of the schools helped make the graffiti look more interesting. I also like the roughness of the paint job from previous efforts to cover up older graffiti. It's a common practice in Greece, but they almost always use a paint-covering primer, and then fail to go back with a matching color to the rest of the wall, so you get these huge gray patches that don't look any better than the tagging.

Old Shutters!, Athens, Greece

It's like an illness with me or something. I find it very difficult to walk past broken shutters, cracked terra cotta tiles or other bits of decaying works of man. In fact, I'm going to have to go back to this one, because I didn't have my tripod along, so the shot's a little blurry. Not too bad for a blog, but not good enough for cards or prints. And you know the world doesn't have enough urban decay cards and prints.

Gate, Pnyx Hill, Athens, Greece

There's something about roads that fade to an end in a stand of trees or a gate with no fence that makes me stop and wonder. Who did that? What were they protecting? Where were they going? Why did they stop protecting it? Why did they stop going that way?

Bushes in the retaining wall

There's something beautiful and melancholy about the number of plants growing from sidewalks, retaining walls and other locations in Athens. It serves to make the city seem alive, unlike in other places, where it seems to make cities look like they're falling apart.

Getting tired of Athens? Paris is coming...maybe even tomorrow.

New logo?

I was taking my walking photo seminar around Monastiraki, and I had just pointed out the scene of the birds (no car for them to fly out of this time), when I saw my new BPS Photography logo. I swear, I didn't paint this or pay someone to do it.

Still in Glyfada

Here it is set against one of its shiny neighbors, who didn't run out of money for construction

More of the apartment building in Glyfada

Looks all nice and pleasant. An apartment in a meadow.

Speaking of nice and pleasant, how do you like the new look here at blog.bpsphoto.com?