Crete ideas?

Agulliver · Tuesday at 9:06 AM

I'll be visiting the island of Crete for the second time in October. Any suggestions for places to photograph? Going with the wife and friends who aren't into photography so I probably won't be able to visit lots of specific locations. Last time in 2019 I did get to Matala for the town, beach and caves. I also did a fair bit of under water photography there and off Havania beach.

Any other ideas of "not to be missed" locations? I'll likely have a DSLR, and two film SLRs one with colour film and one with B&W. probably a super 8 cine camera loaded with 50D also.

koraks · Tuesday at 10:18 AM

We had a great time on the island in May. Did some driving around. The main thing I noticed is that the north coast around Heraklion wasn't very appealing and the city of Heraklion itself we might as well have skipped in hindsight. The south coast, on the other hand, was marvelous. Friendly people and overall great food, too. We liked the town of Zaros, which isn't too far from Matala where you've been. We enjoy hiking and found lots of opportunities especially for somewhat longer hikes (>20km).

Agulliver said:
loaded with 50D also.

That's pretty much all I shot there, too, coincidentally.

Tom Taylor · Tuesday at 3:01 PM

Crete was at the beginning of my itinerary of a 30 day bicycle tour of Greece. I took the overnight ferry from Athen's Port of Piraeus to Heraklion which was an adventure in itself) and from there circled the island clockwise returning via Port of Souda, Chania. Had a great time and met many locals - you're not considered a tourists when you go on bicycle. Although I came prepared to rough camp along the route, I stayed in rented rooms which were cheap enough and hiked the Samaria Gorge. The Second World War is a vivid memory in the villages.

Thomas

Sirius Glass · Thursday at 9:45 PM

I enjoyed many hours at Heraklion. Have lunches and dinners at the island restaurants and tabernas.

baachitraka · Friday at 1:00 AM

We are planning to Rethymno, hope there are some photo opportunities there...

koraks · Friday at 3:46 AM

baachitraka said:
We are planning to Rethymno, hope there are some photo opportunities there...

We drove past that on our way to a village in the hills. The coast around Rethymno looked nice driving along route 90; we did not visit the town itself. We're not beach people and preferred the hills inland. There are photo opportunities all over the place; seriously, it's just trigger-happy shooting on the island when it comes to let's say pretty holiday snapshots, which is what I mostly made there. can't go wrong; have fun.

Sirius Glass said:
I enjoyed many hours at Heraklion.

But....how? We spent an afternoon exploring the city center. Waste of time, really.

blee1996 · Friday at 12:41 PM

A couple of years ago I was in Crete too, more for family summer vacation than photography. But I find the Heraklion harbor quite charming during summer evenings: nice long walk past the Venetian castle, both scenic and lots of interesting people (local couples and fisherman). I found it much less tourists than other major Greek Islands or Athens.

I did the usual touristic things around Crete, such as the Malia Beach, Zeus's cave, Knossos Palace, etc. But I find them not that photogenic.

Sirius Glass · 2025-06-21T12:53:43-0400

koraks said:
We drove past that on our way to a village in the hills. The coast around Rethymno looked nice driving along route 90; we did not visit the town itself. We're not beach people and preferred the hills inland. There are photo opportunities all over the place; seriously, it's just trigger-happy shooting on the island when it comes to let's say pretty holiday snapshots, which is what I mostly made there. can't go wrong; have fun.

But....how? We spent an afternoon exploring the city center. Waste of time, really.

I was talking about the ancient palace, not the city itself. I was impressed that they would use a tree trunk as a column, but installed upside down so that the tree could not grow.

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