Cannon Ball, Rhodos

Very nice, Ian.

Great work, Ian! Leaves me with a few questions about the history of the place, and I love when a photograph does this.

Well it was a Crusader city and fortress, the city walls are quite strange and awesome, sort of double in areas that were open to attack. It was finally captured by the Ottamans, but the Island was taken by the Italians in the late 19th C, and remained under Italian rule well after all other Greek Islands were given back to Greece by Turkey in 1923. Mussolini restored the Castle and to some degree the city as his summer residence, he plundered Roman mosaics from nearby Kos and had them set into the castles floor. Of course he thought he was recreating the Roman Empire

Ian

Thanks for the history lesson! And, the picture is still very interesting... It is interesting what humans do to each other, isn't it? Especially in war, and actions leading up to it.

Thomas, I live it, my life crosses continents, religions, and policitical boundaries. I guess it helps having studied Archaeology at University but then I specialised in Industrial Archaeoly, but the photography came first, and remains foremost. These are from quite a new possible project, I guess another 5 yera plan is in order

Thanks for sharing photo's and history.

marvelous image, old-school documentary style ala atget or evans; very nice work