September 21st, 2010 → 4:25 pm @ Yorgo Nestoridis
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The Ycademy September Seminar will focus on building a personal publishing network and then to link it with other networks. The goal is to increase visibility and impact on Google and other Search Engines as well as on aggregators.
According to the YORGOO Publishing Model we are looking first at a three level in-house structure; thereafter we link with external networks.
Here we consider namely
This topic will be explained and implemented during the seminar.
SEO will be a special issue at the Seminar. All participants will use Semiomantics Scripts tuned for aggressive configuration. We will present step by step a recommended configuration for each site on each level.
In most cases, the Author Blog is a Semiomantics XO site with quite a diversified and complex category and tag structure. Authors however tend to specialize on a few main topics (categories) which would constitute the recommended primary categories of the respective newspaper sites.
In fact each newspaper owner provides a particular mix of topics designed to attract the targeted readership. In the ideal case the mix is function of the main interest of the editor and likely to correspond to the main categories in his author blog.In addition each Newspaper editor may add external authors and their content in function of the requirements of the project. Important: only publish content with the authorization of the external authors and respect copyright notices; all participants agree to allow all the other participants to syndicate content from their networks.
Newspaper sites are built on Semiomantics NewsCast or its successor script. The sites are provided and boosted by YORGOO Press.
These sites are traditionally YORGOO Blasters or Boosters. License holders may also use XO or NewsCast scripts for the purpose whereas it is important to take into account the particular editing requirements of these two scripts.
Special Configuration of Blaster or Booster type sites will be demonstrated at the Seminar.
It is of paramount importance that participants prepare their publishing structure before the seminar. This week’s daily calls will help to prepare these structures. Also, we will publish a sample based on my own model and publish it for reference before the seminar.
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September 16th, 2010 → 10:26 am @ Yorgo Nestoridis
Copyright © 2010 Yorgo Nestoridis. Visit the original article at http://yorgonestoridis.com/yorgo-nestoridis-development/yorgoo-press/new-theme-for-yorgoo-press/.With the upgrade to WordPress 3.0.1 YORGOO Press needs a lift and we will take the opportunity to develop a new Semiomantics Press script.
Also, the new YORGOO Press sites will be only available to Ycademy September Seminar Participants for whom we will continue to host these exclusive high performance sites.
As from Sunday, September 19, 2010 we will take down all YORGOO Press sites. If you would like to preserve pieces and bits, you may back-up your existing site to your computer. We will not preserve your existing data bases and you will not be able to reload your old DB to the new site.
YORGOO Press will be reconstructed from scratch with new and different server features than in the past. The new sites will be built individually using the latest Semiomantics technology, similar to the one used on our most recent sites but the Newspaper layout will be preserved.
The seminar will take place on September 25/26, 2010
Seminar Tickets are available (limited number as we will build maximum 12 YORGOO Press websites) HERE.
The agenda will be released shortly.
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September 15th, 2010 → 6:54 pm @ Yorgo Nestoridis
Wow, we are doing great on Google! Our new Vegetable Garden Design site has reached Google Top 10 on quite a few of our keywords within 24 hours and we are quite proud about it.
You may ask how we did this? well, in fact it’s an easy issue:
Our WordPress based site is tuned by Semiomantics, and this is miles away from ordinary WordPress. The performance of Semiomantics tuned scripts is a proven issue. As we need fast performance and high visibility on our high traffic keyword, only the best scripts are good enough.
Established 3 years ago, special support for active YORGOO Pros and Ycademy Pros is available. Any new site lacks authority at the beginning. YORGOO Publishing can help any site to climb up quickly on Google as we have shown on many opportunities in the past. I cannot tell you how they do it, but fact is that by hooking our site up with the YORGOO Publishing network, we get a two step effect:
Ad1: here is a screen shot of the performance of our last post:
Vegetable Garden Design Elements on Google
As you see, 4 of the YORGOO Publishing Network sites rank on Google Top 10, while our new site sits on rank 20 (not visible here).
Interesting is also that Garden Route Publishing is ranking high: the reason is its very broad spectrum of performance as well as may be the domain name which includes the word “Garden”.
What will happen according to the Semiomantics philosophy is that in the beginning the supportive network will score high and after a while our new site will rank ahead of all the other sites of the network.
Look forward – this is just the beginning as we party for our 24 hours of existence 
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September 15th, 2010 → 6:22 pm @ Yorgo Nestoridis
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Vegetable Garden design is quite an interesting keyword: lot’s of traffic and a relatively small number of competitors. It’s a perfect target to demonstrate the power of Semiomantics Frameworks and the quality of websites built by us.
To prepare the Ycademy September Seminar we have chosen the keyword Vegetable “Garden Design” to build step by step a website designed to grab the keyword Vegetable Garden design on Google.
The site focuses on 4 sub-topics:
We have registered a new domain yesterday for the purpose of our demonstration; within a few minutes from going public with the Semiomantics Framework we were indexed and listed on Google. One day later we are already present on Google Top 10 with 50% of our main keywords such as Vegetable Garden Design Trends.
Please note that for the purpose of the demo we support the new site using the YORGOO Publishing model all Ycademy pros have implemented. The result is obvious: established Semiomantics Frameworks with a built authority perform immediately irrespective of their main purpose. The top scorers are YORGOO Publishing network sites which pull the new site immediately to Google Top 10.
Based on the Ycademy Seminar held in January 2009 we have published a hypothetical Model for efficient Online Publishing under the name of YORGOO Publishing Model. Bianca Gubalke had resumed the model in two video clips available on YouTube.
Since then we have updated the model and a new version will be implemented with participants at the Ycademy September Seminar.
As you can see from the above screen-shot: just 24 hours after registering the domain VegetableGardenDesigns.com, the site flirts with Google Top 10 on relevant keywords.
Frankly, I don’t know anyone else than Semiomantics able to achieve such a performance!
Another example of high performance is to be found under the keyword “Vegetable Garden Design News”, whereas we just use the generic search:
If we use the narrow search we just look at a full house score where we occupy all top 10 positions with the YORGOO Publishing network and where our new site ranks on number 3 right after YORGOO:
"Vegetable Garden Design News"
Of course there are not many returns here, however, the news category has its hidden secrets as you may know :-).
By the way, if you look up our principal keyword in the plural form and using narrow search for “Vegetable Garden Designs” you will find our 24 hour old site and domain on rank 5 right on Google Top 10:
This one is a clear demonstration of the power of the domain as well as parallel visibility on other keywords.
Look forward to the next step and our performance by tomorrow :-).
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September 15th, 2010 → 8:14 am @ Yorgo Nestoridis
Vegetable Garden Designers look at the elements we have listed in our previous post. This post will focus on some of these elements.
When designing a vegetable garden, some basic principles need to be observed as from the beginning. They concern the basic layout of the garden, such as the layout of the hard landscape, such as path, walls, may be a greenhouse, water features and so on.
Further the attention is focused on the layout of the plantation and the plants themselves. vegetable Garden Design takes into account the season-to-season appearance, the growth habit, lifespan and the horticultural needs of the plants.
Designers include into their concepts elements of maintenance, time and money requirements which may impact in the quality, speces, speed of growth and more.
The most important consideration in vegetable Garden design is its purpose and how and when it will be used, followed by stylistic considerations.
All the above is function of the location of the vegetable garden. The influence of the climate, soil and seasonal evolution on the life and growth cycle of the veggies is of paramount importance for the success of the project.
Finally, and I said it before, there is always a financial component to each project. Budget limitations can be met by reducing cost on the hard landscape and by simplifying the design. The choice of plants and their needs of maintenance may have a positive impact as well.
When talking finance we consider as well the amount of time needed to spend on cultivating and maintaining the vegetable garden.
A well designed garden saves time and provides pleasure all along the year.
September 14th, 2010 → 5:53 pm @ Yorgo Nestoridis
In this category you will find Tips about Vegetable Garden Design. Look forward for more.
September 14th, 2010 → 5:51 pm @ Yorgo Nestoridis
This category will deal with Vegetable Gardening Trends and keep you posted about the latest developments.
September 14th, 2010 → 5:50 pm @ Yorgo Nestoridis
This category will focus on Vegetable Garden Design News. We will deliver fresh content and information about new developments.
September 14th, 2010 → 5:40 pm @ Yorgo Nestoridis
Vegetable Garden design is the art and process of designing and creating plans for layout and planting vegetable gardens.
vegetable Garden Design may be done by garden owners or professionals. Vegetable Garden design software is available online.
These helpful tools allow most anyone to design a Vegetable Garden in function of the landscape, soil, climate, lightning and more factors; however the expertise of a professional experienced Designer should be seriousely considered by newbies.
Designers work with a set of elements which we will just line out here:
We will shortly discuss these elements of vegetable garden design in a series of posts.
September 14th, 2010 → 4:31 pm @ Yorgo Nestoridis
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After the previous post we have implemented the set-up as discussed. The domain has been registered, hosting acquired and WordPress was set up before loading the latest version of Semiomantics XO.
Just for the fun and for a first shot at Google for indexing purposes we have posted a short post about Vegetable Garden Design and the purpose of the site.
A few minutes after the post, the site was indexed on Google and the first post listed on rank 54 of 7,450,000 search returns. A good start considering that we have not yet configured the site.
Now we need to configure the framework and site scripts properly in order to get best visibility and publishing quality.
The principal keyword is “Vegetable Garden Design” and we added some sub-keywords to end up with the following for the purpose of this exercise:
Here we apply a standard configuration whereas we use our main keywords as category slugs. We also add some plugins namely for tracking, networking and to enhance our permalinks.
This part concerns some work on the semantics of the publication. As these settings are customized for each publication, they take time and need some fine tuning over the next few days and may be weeks to assure the Publication gets positioned perfectly where we intend it to be on Google.
this is not a web design exercise; for this reason I will just leave the site with a standard XO style sheet. May be at a later stage we will do some work there.
Now we need to compile some content to get quickly some first Google rankings.
I will be back when the step 2 is accomplished.
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September 14th, 2010 → 10:29 am @ Yorgo Nestoridis
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Today just a little challenge: how to grab quickly Google Top 10 Positions with “Vegetable Garden Design”, a tough but rewarding key word. I take the opportunity to demonstrate the power of Semiomantics by following step by step a typical niche blog set up using Semiomantics WordPress technology and scripts.
This post describes Step 1 of our 5 Step strategy
A keyword related domain is a clear advantage. “Vegetal Garden Design” being taken on TLDs I tried the next clsosest by using the plural: Vegetable Garden Designs as a .com.
I just got a cheap hosting for $35 per year with unlimited disk-space and bandwidth from ChiHosters.
Set up WordPress either by using Fantastico or manually.
This is what I consider the best publishing Framework … what else!
Look forward to the next step: I will now execute this one on the new site targeting Vegetable Garden Design
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September 14th, 2010 → 10:07 am @ Yorgo Nestoridis
This site will focus Vegetable Garden Design as well as news, trends and Tips related to Vegetable Garden Designs. We will also review Vegetable Garden Designs and create informative media based content related to the design of vegetable gardens.
September 13th, 2010 → 12:32 pm @ Yorgo Nestoridis
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For once we start school in Vouliagmeni on a Monday. in fact, what elsewhere is called “starting school”, is just a sort of a “touch base with reality” issue in Greece.
On the first day of a new school year, you meet with your class mates, align in front of the school, get the popes blessing, some nice words from the major, and some organizational directives from the principal.
After that, which takes about 1 hour (of which the pope monopolizes 60%), you are free and off to the nearby park where parents have coffee and kids exchange their MSN addresses, facebook links and other really more important info than school can ever provide.
Coming back from far away and having been graduating from an American High School, this scene inspires for sure a lesson the Pope did not intend to teach :-).
Gregory Kasidokostas, the best mayor in Greece! In fact he is the only real mayor in this country as he has been here since Pericles, taking care of the nicest town in Greece, Vouliagmeni that is. Sure, Wikipedia will still stigmatize him as a Water-ski school teacher and throw him into the crowd of those who have some indirect links to affairs with Paris Hilton (’cause of his son, “Paris” called as well … try to get clear with this one). Fact is, Gregory has been the Mayor of Vouliagmeni for long (some may say too long) and yet, the place is still better than any other town in this country.
The guy to the left of Gregory is the School’s principal. I am not sure about his name since I have not heard anyone talking about him using a common name (Greeks use other expressions in stead of names … sometimes). Reminds me of my time in the USA, where nobody liked the principal. In any case, he is the man in charge of the show and you can only hope he does not throw his evil eye at your kiddo. And if he does, never mind, for as long as your son’s godfather is the Principal’s boss :-).
The best moment, after half an our of prayers, is when the pope dumps a bunch of Basil into sacred Water and waves it over the crowd of kids (and teachers).
Basil is a sacred herb. One more thing we have in common with Sikhs and Hindus. Beside the use in rituals we like it with tomato and Mozzarella for example.
These are the two teachers of the 6th grade classes of the Vouliagmeni Primary School, Michalis and Georgia. You see, as an intellectual parent you have to try to educate your children according to solid and true values; you sure cannot blame me for appreciating the fact that YorgoMan profits from the lucky choice (guess which one and if you cannot find out, ask Gene.).
After the ceremonial part and the handshake with the teacher, off we go to the nearby park for coffee.
The parents meet for coffee … takes at least 2 hours, while the kids play, discuss and more.
Finally everyone wishes a happy new school year and takes off for a Souvlaki.
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September 6th, 2010 → 10:37 am @ Yorgo Nestoridis
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Evia located north of Attica; it’s the second largest Greek island after Crete. The best known place in North Evia is Edipsos. The curative thermal springs have been known for thousands of years; from the old Greeks to the Romans and more recently to Sir Winston Churchill, Onassis and many other well known personalities.
Sunsets are a beautiful natural spectacle. The ever changing light conditions under the declining sun offer great photographic opportunities and challenges.
Everybody can take sunset pictures, it’s not all that difficult: just point your digital camera and shoot … the automatic settings will do the rest. If you want however take a more stunning sunset, the one that knocks even an ice-bear out of his socks, then you may consider some of the following aspects and try them out.
In order to take a smashing picture, you need dust and or clouds. The red and orange colors result from micro-particles in the air. Dust can come from anywhere, pollution helps to break light, smoke, fog and so on. A second element for great effects are Clouds.
Clouds add structure, interesting light effects and in as much as I am concerned, I prefer the cloudy sky to the straight gradients resulting from a cloudless and dust-free atmosphere.
Look at your scenery and decide what’s more important to you: the sky of the foreground. The more beautiful your sky the more of it you want to ban on your photo. In general it’s of good advise to follow the rule of thirds.
The first image above features two horizons: one in the foreground and one in the back-ground. The foreground horizon is placed about on the lower third line, while the back-ground horizon is at the boring 50% level. The sun is on the first third line from the left.
The second photo focuses clearly on the sky. The horizon is just below the one third line from the bottom.
Applying the rule of thirds will help to focus on the essential aspects of the sunset and adds tension to the image. Of course there are always exceptions and you may find yourself in a situation where the totally balanced and centered approach will reflect tranquility and desired harmony; as usual, it will depend on the story you want to tell.
The sunset is spectacular and usually it becomes more spectacular if it’s seen in an interesting context. The foreground is what often gives the special touch” a few palm trees, a jetty, a bridge, people or most any object which adds a scale to your picture.
For the purpose of this post I add a photo from Kavouri beach in Vouliagmeni, where the focus is on the busy foreground.
Your creativity is the limit.
It seems to be a commonly accepted rule, that foregrounds are represented as dark silhouettes, herefore your flash should be set to “off”. In some cases however it may be interesting to capture some reflections from a foreground, such as the ones you can see on the cars parked at Kavouri Beach or the small reflections from the town in the foreground of the first image from Agios above. Context matters and adds expression.
This is part of your composition. Experiment with the frame; make it wider or narrower depending on the story you want to tell. It’s better to frame when you take the picture than to cut the image in Photoshop or any other image editor. If you use zoom, make sure to remain within the range of your optical zoom and don’t use the digital zoom to preserve a maximum of quality, data and image size.
In Agios I thought there was an interesting frame focusing on the sea, separating the island of Evia from the main land (Attica).
The image is full of harmony, smooth gradients and tints around the golden reflection of the sunset in the sea. The sky is of no importance here; it’s all a matter of light and tints in for my taste, very nice proportions.
This is probably the most important and also most difficult issue, namely with digital cameras. In automatic settings, digital cameras most often use matrix metering which is reflected by an average exposure and results in under-exposed photos. The issue is due to the huge extremes between highlights and shadows. 
For best results, it’s recommended to use a a metering device and meter the two extremes as well as the environmental light and average in function of the priority set by your composition and the story you want to tell.
The best advise is: just experiment! There is never just one right exposure as different exposures will produce great results, however the effects are different. Again, it’s a matter of what you wish to express with your picture.
Professionals use bracketing and so may you. Most digital cameras have a bracketing function; when you shoot,the cam will take 3 pictures: one as per automatic or manually set metering, one with one F-stop higher and one with a F-stop lower. Say you take the picture at 1/60 s at f/8, the cam will take a shot at these settings, then one at 1/60s at f/5.6 and one at 1/60 s at f/11. You will then be able to select the most expressive shot.
The trouble is in the highlights. Digital cameras’ sensors are very sensitive to light. The danger consists thus in overexposure of highlights which boils down to a reduced dynamic range in the light areas of your picture (lack of gradients, texture and structure).Your digital camera may have a iHighlight function,which may remedy or different presets for the white balance.
Sunset pictures as well as night photos are interesting subjects for HDR photography: shoot multiple shots from your tripod at different settings and mash them up in Photoshop with the HDR feature. The trick may help as the extreme light zones and the extreme darks may your camera cause to think for you (and that you definitely don’t want …) and select either priority. The camera’s choice will most often result in a loss of dynamic range throughout the spectrum, namely if you are shooting with a lower end point and shoot cam.
This month’s Ycademy calls will deal with digital photography and on improving our quality as photographers and photo editors
Also we are working on Digital Photography with the purpose of building a high quality Stock Photo and Media Portfolio which will serve the needs of many a website developer as well as graphic designers in the need of new, fresh, unique and exclusive media content.
Our daily calls start at 8 pm London time (GMT +1) and they take place at our easy to use online live conferencing center.
For more info and joining Ycademy, contact Bianca Gubalke directly from here:
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September 4th, 2010 → 8:37 am @ Yorgo Nestoridis
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Editing a Photo has basically two aspects:
This post will deal only with the first aspect using a Photo ©2010 Laetitia Paris.
Tree ©2010 Laetitia Paris Original
What comes out of the camera is fundamentally good however the bright sky representing about 40% of the frame has it’s negative influence on the metering. The sky looks over exposed. The question is whether the camera sensor has captured color data which can be exploited.
Tree ©2010 Laetitia Paris Recovered Sky
The difference may appear small here in this down-sized image, however on the full size image it is substantial. The increase of blue tones in the sky impacts on the perception of the greens.
Of course Lightroom allows to intervene on selected areas; you can paint and tint your sky as you like (or use the Dark Skies Plug-in).
Tree ©2010 Laetitia Paris Painted in Sky
Tree ©2010 Laetitia Paris - desaturated
Lord of the Rings
Firenza
Autumn Glow
The above exaggerated examples show how the mood and expression changes depending on how we deal with the photo in the post editing process. The important question remains: what’s the story you want to tell and how can the photo best express the essence of the story, mood or atmosphere.
We will talk about the expression at the Monday call.
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September 3rd, 2010 → 12:10 pm @ Yorgo Nestoridis
Copyright © 2010 Yorgo Nestoridis. Visit the original article at http://yorgonestoridis.com/yorgo-nestoridis-media/phot-editing-exercise/.To make things more transparent we will edit a photo step by step during tonight’s call. In fact we will all edit the same photo. Zo has sent in a Picture, the kind you just shoot out of your window towards the neighbor’s house, which is perfect for the purpose. As you will see the photo bears all the strong and weak points a ‘normal’ photo can have.
Photo by Zo
We will spend one hour editing this picture using Lightroom. As the case may be we will find the time to do some post editing for various purposes.
Zo Color Image
Zo Old Timer
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September 3rd, 2010 → 9:56 am @ Yorgo Nestoridis
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At our recent calls we have been trying to crystallize a smart way to quickly edit digital photos. This post will resume the 3 steps we are following.
The camera calibration serves to correct systematic deviations inherent to the type and model of the camera. If you camera returns images which are too yellow or green, this can be corrected; the same applies to other lens corrections, like sharpness or distortions as the case may be. The corrections are saved as a Calibration Preset in Lightroom.
All photos you import from your camera can be automatically filtered with this calibration preset.
Astir Beach Snorkelers on September 2, 2010
This steps purpose is to recover a maximum of available data from your image. The image is brought down to a balanced close to ‘what you saw’ state whereas we try to recover data namely in the over exposed areas as well as in the shadow areas.
Most of the corrections are standard corrections by type of image (low-light, bright-light, sun-set and so on). These corrections can be saved as personal presets in Lightroom and you may then apply them to the corresponding type of calibrated image imported.
The corrections under this step do not yet tell the story or max-out the expression of the picture. They prepare the picture for best post-editing.
A good photo tells a story. If you shoot a landscape just before a thunderstorm, you may emphasize the the dramatic clouds with your editing tools for example. It’s about making the photo more expressive. When you shot the photo, you took it because nature was telling you a story; you ban that story in a photo and you try to express what triggered in you the emotion when looking at nature. If your picture can trigger that kind of emotion in a third person, then you have probably a good picture.
Seagull at Astir Beach
Don’t forget: the picture works only with visuals while in nature you are also experiencing sounds, temperature, humidity, smells and so on. Your visual image must therefore compensate for the absence of these additional sensations. Visual enhancements help to trigger a maximum degree of emotion or impression without exaggerating the effects. If you overdo effects, your image loses in credibility and you shift from photography to “art”, or “illustration” or what ever people often call their messed up production.
Also: keep in mind that editing for printing requires good density and saturation levels. The use online at 72 dpi means automatically a loss of 50% to 75% of points per inch; therefore, if you start out with a “thin” picture, it will only get thinner and flatter when publishing for the web.
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September 2nd, 2010 → 1:37 pm @ Yorgo Nestoridis
Copyright © 2010 Yorgo Nestoridis. Visit the original article at http://yorgonestoridis.com/greece/the-best-beach-in-greece/.From my previous posts you guessed it: Astir Beach is my number one beach. And every day the dedicated staff and management confirm this statement… since 1960.
No reason to stay at home to watch the basketball World Championship at a vulgar boob tube; Astir’s mega screen with exceptional luminosity and resolution is simply the best.
SIpping your Mojito, connecting with the world through the Wi-Fi net, watching the Greek team winning and all this while doing maintenance on your sun tan … Is that what crises means in Greece?
All photos live by iPhone.
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September 2nd, 2010 → 1:04 pm @ Yorgo Nestoridis
Smashing weather today again at Astir Beach in Vouliagmeni. Even an iPhone can take nice pics under these conditions.
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September 2nd, 2010 → 12:55 pm @ Yorgo Nestoridis
Some clouds over Astir Beach in Vouliagmeni and great light create ideal photo conditions for the iPhone 4.
Posted from Vari, Attica, Greece.
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