Nature

Fonissa Waterfall - Καταράχτης στη Φόνισσα My name is Kostas Kranis and I live in Athens, Greece. I work as a telecomms engineer in a multinational, and spent most of my spare time with a camera in my hands. I started ph...

Kapsali Village - Λεπτομέρεια από το Καψάλι My name is Kostas Kranis and I live in Athens, Greece. I work as a telecomms engineer in a multinational, and spent most of my spare time with a camera in my hands. I started p...

Rock - Βράχος στο δρόμο My name is Kostas Kranis and I live in Athens, Greece. I work as a telecomms engineer in a multinational, and spent most of my spare time with a camera in my hands. I started photography 5 years a...

Small Stone Bridge - Πέτρινο Γεφυράκι My name is Kostas Kranis and I live in Athens, Greece. I work as a telecomms engineer in a multinational, and spent most of my spare time with a camera in my hands. I started photogr...

Melidoni Beach - Μελιδόνι My name is Kostas Kranis and I live in Athens, Greece. I work as a telecomms engineer in a multinational, and spent most of my spare time with a camera in my hands. I started photography 5 years...

Area around the Amir Ali Cafe. The Amir Ali Cafe is owned by: George & Judith Rizomarkos Phone 27360-34346 e-mail: rizolaar@hotmail.com See: http://www.kythira.info/infokyth/karavas.htm

late in the afternoon this lady enjoys the cool of the evening admiring her flowers at her house at hora.

plenty of octopus to be found in the waters but they are so hard to see hiding in the rocks.

a ''kaiki'' full of fresh fish and a lobster for this ''spara''from kapsali from the mid 80's.

if you are lucky enough to catch a full moon while in kythera it is a wonderful sight to see. the moon light lites the whole island and it shimmers across our waters. enlarge this photo stand back a bit and you can see '...

From the beautiful front cover of Tess Mallos's Greek Cookbook. Gifts from nature, against the backdrop of Karavas buildings and terraces. (Also on page 120, entitled, At Kythera, cottage cheese with crisp bread,(paxsima...

Designed by graphic artist Lindsay Cretha (Kritharis) Katharos, now residing in Berry, NSW, in the 1970's. The laconic donkey, meant to compliment the two previous donkey entries in this section, captures the quiet and l...

Looking across two beautifully crafted sumari, saddles, to a grazing donkey, and a view across Karavas. The saddles belonged to our neighbour in Karavas, Irini Voulgaris. I do hope that examples of these sumari have been...

During the pre-automotive period, the most important animal on Kythera was the donkey. There are very few working donkeys left on Kythera now. In 1994, our neighbours in Karavas, Voulgari, and his wife Irini, maintained...

A little Kytherian friend, pops his head out to say hullo, during our visit to Kythera, 1994.

the spring at galani between potamos and agia pelagia. always a must to stop have a cool drink and fill up for water at home.they say if you have a drink from galani vrese you will stay youg for ever more.!!! next time y...

The picture is from a small, 16-page tourist book of the island, issued, in the 1950's, or 1960's. (Page 16, of 16). [The photograph is of equally poor quality in the book, but I enjoy it because it captures a mood.] Cal...

the pebble beaches of kythera.

fresh vegies from the babakia..

Refreshed and rejuvenated you follow the path back towards civilization, but don’t you wish you could stay...