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SMALL CHURCH

MANI PENINSULA, GREECE

Image Number 344

Although not far from Athens, the Mani peninsula in the south of the Pelopponese has been remote for centuries. Until recently its villages could be reached only by boat.  The residents are characteristically gruff, tough, resistant to strangers (both Greek and foreign) and fiercely independent.  However even they are forced to admit the tourists who are now bused into their enclave mostly against their will.   The tourists, who expect to be welcomed throughout Greece, are shocked by the sullen Maniots.  However, the Mani Peninsula offers some of the most spectacular architecture and coastal scenery in Greece.  So Atticus, along with everyone else, went there just the same.  

TECHNICAL NOTES

The image was taken with a tripod-mounted Phase One 645 Camera at ISO 200. Exposure of 1/0-th of a second and aperture F9.   80mm Schneider Kreuznach lens with leaf shutter.   The image was captured on a Phase One IQ180 80 megapixel digital back.