Photos of Crete

Crete Photo of the Day

Throughout the years, I have taken thousands of photos of Crete and especially West Crete. These are mainly of landscapes and buildings as I am still reluctant to photograph people. Please follow the links below to get to specific pages.

• Flowers of Crete: photos and descriptions of Cretan flowers - over 110 pages and several hundred photos
  • Cretan endemic flowers
  • Greek endemic flowers
  • Non-endemic flowers found on Crete
  • Rare flowers (they will also be found in other categories)
  • Orchids
  • Trees
• Photo of the day: for those who want their daily fix of Crete. As far as possible I will show a new photo every day but it will not always be a photo taken on this particular day.
• Photos of the day archive 2013 - 2013 in pictures
• Photos of the day archive 2012 - 2012 in pictures
• Photos of the day archive 2011 - 2011 in pictures
• Photos of the day archive 2010 - 2010 in pictures
• Photos of the day archive 2009 - 2009 in pictures
• Photos of the day archive 2008 - 2008 in pictures
• Photos of the day archive 2007 - 2007 in pictures
• Photos of the day archive 2006- 2006 in pictures
• Screensavers of Crete (for Windows OS only)
• Photos of the month: Crete through the seasons - they are slightly older photos, taken before I started archiving my Photos of the day
• Panoramas  of Chania, Paleochora beach, Tigani to Balos, Stavros, Omalos plateau
• Panoramas of the White Mountains
• and another page of Panoramas of the White Mountains, this time the area kown as Pavlia Harlara
• Desktop wallpapers of Cretan landscapes
• and finally Himalayas trekking in pictures which is a site about what I do when I am not in Crete.
  

Photo galleries

Visit my other gallery where you can purchase prints of some of my photos.

• The Cretan seaside (7 pages)
• The region of Sfakia (3 pages)
• The gorges of West Crete (2 pages)
• Chania harbour 
• Chania town  
• A storm in Chania
• A stroll through the old town of Chania
• The beaches of West Crete in winter
• A walk along the South coast
• Akrotiri peninsula
• Crete in the 1960s

The White Mountains

• Omalos plateau in winter (page 1)
• Omalos plateau in winter (page 2)
• The White Mountains in winter (5 pages)
• The White Mountains in summer (6 pages)
• Walking in the mountains
• A helicopter ride through the White Mountains
• Sunrise in the mountains
• Moonscapes of the high mountain desert
• Pachnes, the highest summit
• The Madhares
• Flowers of the White Mountains
• Stones, rocks and crystals
• Fauna of the mountains
• Trees of the mountains
• Panoramic pictures of the White Mountains