My Walk on Mother's Day and some Thoughts

The Greek word for mummy is μαμά. (mama')
A word that sounds so sweet, so simple, so natural.

There are people who have not known their mothers, still .. when in need, the world that comes to mind is this.

Μαμά, βοήθησέ με.

I think it is something in our DNA, we are part of our mothers - because they gave us life. No matter what happened next, another human being allowed us to be their parasite for 9 whole months.

I will not start by what it means to experience this.

I will only say that as I grow old, I understand that we get so mad to our parents as we were young.. We believe that we know it all, and only when we grow up we understand how much we hurt them while all they did was care for us.

Χρόνια Πολλά μαμά..

Anyways, I decided to go for a walk in the afternoon, just because I wanted to take some test shots.

In one month, we will need to prepare a photo exhibition with my other co-students. I was looking at my previous photos and there not many I would like to send to be honest. I do not like my older photos so much. I respect them, they are part of my life. But my perception has changed.

So I will try to see the world around me with different eyes from now on.

Of course to do that, you will need to experiment with light, lens, and a variety of other settings. Sometimes it is not so easy to do that through the phone photo sensors.

I often loose my focus and the close ups are not to clear. The left photo is on one of those that did not come right.

On the contrary, the more distant photo seems just right! The light, the detail and clarity seem fine to me.

Unbelievable, right?
We got ourselves a lifeguard tower! I do not know if there will be a lifeguard there soon, but it will be interesting to see that happening!

This is open ocean before us, and next there is an organized part of the beach. Maybe it is the law now that sets a lifeguard as an obligatory service when you have a beach bar I guess.

Continuing my walk, I went close to the CretAquarium to see what is around.
Maybe I can go at some point to shoot some butterflies on the flowers.

There is also a nice cafe-restaurant, perhaps I will visit it at some point!

Again, trying out my lens and also taking images of what is around me. It is a nice place for sure. Too bad that it closes early in the afternoon.

OOps, there is a bug! Finally, lets see what my photo will capture.
I find it more difficult to capture close ups (macro) with this new (half a year old) phone of mine.

This is the CretAquarium Entrance.
I plan to go and ask them .. listen, I am a neighbor.. is there a way I can pay for a weekly or monthly ticket? Oh the fish and sharks I will photograph!! hahaha

More close ups. Do you like them? Do you think that the left one looks like a smiling face?

A photo test. Not great, but I am allowing it to be here

A mother with her child. They were so happy together, I decided to capture that!

mom, mummy, μαμά, μανούλα

Something priceless that happened is that when I was writing that on the sand, she called me. It was a lovely moment. She has a cold and I have not seen her for a while so it was like we thought of each other at the same time!

Playing with sand and light and photos!

I took some more shots with the moon and a plane that looked like a sock but I had issues uploading them. Maybe there is a limit in photos? Not sure.

Thanks for bearing with me, wishing you lots of love and affection and anything else you desire in life!