This morning I toured the Acropolis and the Acropolis Museum in Athens. For my trip I had planned to shoot 35mm Ilford FP4+ and Kodak Tri-X, and so had taken along my Canon Elan 7 with my Canon 24-105L IS zoom, with my old Canon Rebel and a Canon 50mm for backup. However, the website for the Acropolis Museum wasn’t enthusiastic about bringing camera bags to the museum – the Museum does not permit photographs whatsoever – so I left the gear at my hotel and went to the Acropolis with (merely) an iPhone.
When that’s all you have, you make do – after all, if someone like David du Chemin can make worthwhile images with an iPhone, who am I to complain? I was pleased with the results – this image of the Erechtheion temple ruin at the Acropolis is my favourite – and I was helped greatly by the iPhone’s nearly infinite depth-of-field.
If I have time while I’m here, I’ll go back to the Acropolis (and ignore the Museum) and try to do it justice in black-and-white.