No. 46. Piraeus Greece

Small Greek Orthodox chapel — Small Greek Orthodox chapel, Piraeus, Greece

Reflection cSt Nicholaus Church dome — Reflection St Nicholaus Church dome

Close Reflection cSt Nicholaus Church dome — Close Reflection St Nicholaus Church dome

Port of Pireaus — Port of Piraeus

Pireaus Cityscape — Piraeus Cityscape

Pireaus Harbor with new high rise — Piraeus Harbor with new high rise

Leros naos agia triada

Church with Red Dome

Modern Reflections, reflections in a glass building along the harbor front, Pireaus, Greece — Modern Reflections

The Hills of Pireaus, port city of Greece next to Athens — The Hills of Piraeus

St Nicholaus Church

Gold Glow on Pink Building

The port of Piraeus, a city just a few miles from downtown Athens, is the main port in Greece and the fifth-largest passenger port in Europe. It served well over 4 million passengers in 2020. In terms of container/cargo traffic, Piraeus is among the ten busiest ten ports in Europe and is the busiest one in the Eastern Mediterranean. Boasting a history dating to antiquity, the city was founded in the early Fifth Century BC when plans to make it the new port of Athens were first laid. At that time the harbor was constructed, which resulted in concentrating the import and transit trade of Athens, as well as the Greek Navy, all in one location.

This was the point of embarkation for our voyage in the Aegean that landed us in Istanbul.

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Jay M. Ressler

Jay Ressler Composite Photography, Encaustic Art, and Oil Painting He is an outstanding location photographer and painter, with an eye that can capture the soul of a Havana back street as beautifully as the sip of a hungry hummingbird, often with compelling black and white images. Jay Ressler is best known for artistic expression that lives in layers between opposites. “I like to explore boundaries,” he explains. “Boundaries between consciousness and the unconscious, between reality and imagination, between certainty and skepticism.” He does this by compositing his own photography in multiple layers to produce stunningly original, interleaved images. Using Photoshop, other image manipulation software and a variety of digital effects, he paints one photographic layer on top of another. He takes advantage of textures he's captured along with an array of processes for manipulating light, contrast, and color to tell the story. “Distorting and reinterpreting the literal 'machine moments' captured by the camera is as old as the art of photography,” he insists. Jay occasionally extends his multi-layered approach to encaustic mixed media creations. Based on ancient techniques, the process begins with cooking his own recipes of beeswax and damar resin and applying this medium between the layers of photographic images, along with various pigmented compounds and materials to add color, texture and expression. Either way, the results are riveting. The viewer is drawn into an unfolding, dreamlike scene that might be heart-warming, haunting, gritty, poignant or magical. Sometimes, within the various layers, all of the above. The award-winning photographer/artist has many dimensions himself. He studied advanced digital photography at Pittsburgh Filmmakers and advanced encaustic techniques with leading instructors in the field. He worked as an underground coal miner, steelworker, machinist, labor and civil rights activist, copywriter and commercial printer. He has a BS in Psychology from Albright College.