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The ruins of the magnificent Erechtheion Temple atop the Athenian Acropolis overlook the city of Athens on a sunny summer day. Upholding the south porch are the beautiful Caryatids, statues of young ladies carrying baskets of fruit and walnuts on their heads as offerings to the gods of the temple, Athena, Zeus and Poseidon. They were created from 421 BC to 406 BC.

In 1802 Thomas Bruce, Seventh Lord Elgin, who served as Great Britain's ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, removed one of the Caryatids and other precious artifacts and shipped them to the British museum as a gift. It's said that on that night, the remaining sisters of the stolen Caryatid cried, and that their sobs could be heard all over the city of Athens.

My original photography … taken with an Olympus C-5000 in July of 2005.

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Welcome! I"m a photographer and digital artist living in the Mid-Atlantic area of the US. Drawing and creating my own little sketchy worlds are some of my earliest memories. Life did what it does and the art fell away, but I reconnected when digital photography was introduced. I enjoy adding to my love of photography by tinkering with computer art programs including Photoshop, Corel Painter, Rebelle and others , though I do not use Ai / Artificial Intelligence. I also love working completely freehand with no photo reference involved. All of which is allowing me to circle back to a semblance of my days of sketching and painting traditionally. Please be aware that we are currently experiencing a glitch in our system. The images in...