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For the duration of our stay in Greece, Grace and I had a running joke going about this sign, which we termed “the running man.” We saw it in a lot of places we were at, including the airports in Frankfurt and Athens — as near as we can tell, it’s meant to point to the nearest emergency exit (that is, it shows you where to run for your life).

We started to joke, at one point, that we were being stalked by the running man. Seriously, he turns up everywhere.

This is one of the last pictures I took on our honeymoon, and will be the last of the Greek series in the Pics of the Day that began back at the end of November, 2007, with #437. It was taken at the airport in Athens while we were killing time between our early-morning arrival there (which, despite being a bit physically taxing, I would recommend to anyone — it’s worth it for how quick one can get through the security lines) and our flight’s departure.

It was actually a tricky shot to get right — the light behind the sign is actually quite bright, and I had to boost the camera’s shutter speed quite a bit before the exposure on the sign was somewhere in the vicinity of “proper”. The background is still fairly dark, and this after I boosted the shadow exposure level in Lightroom. But that’s okay — it still looks neat.

Greece was an amazing experience, and Grace and I are anxious to go back there to tour some more. Sure, parts of it are loud and dirty, and there’s cigarette smoke everywhere you go, but there is an immense amount of history there as well, and some truly beautiful sights to see. And don’t get us started on the food!

~ by Kenneth on January 28, 2008.