Day Eight (June 16)

It is Abby's Birthday today! Whoo Hoo Big one-six!

We woke up at 9 in the morning and we ate breakfast downstairs. I had my ultimate favorite breakfast: GREEK YOGURT AND HONEY! Yummy! After our meal, we went up to the top floor of the hotel and had a quick lesson on shutter speed. Carolynn and David showed us how the speed of the shutter can completely change what the picture looks like. When you have a faster shutter speed, the objects in motion look frozen, but when you have a slower shutter the objects in motion look like they are actually moving in the photo.

After that lesson, we broke off into groups of three and went around the little village of Delphi. I bought a few things for my siblings and myself as well, and took some great pictures of the great view of the mountains. We were told to focus on a few elements of photography while shooting today: leading lines, space, worms eye point of view and birds eye point of view.

Knowing and practicing a lot more really helped me understand how to recognize the elements before you shoot the picture. We met back at the hotel to download all of our pictures so far from the trip to an external hard drive so that Carolyn and David could look at them, as well as National Geographic.

Loading and organizing takes a lot of work, so we needed to eat. We went in two separate grouped to two different restaurants because half wanted to go one place, and the other half wanted to go another. We ate at Agora Café and celebrated Abby’s Birthday with come delicious chocolate lava cake!

We then went to the oracle of Delphi and saw where everything was actually back in the day. It was very neat to see how they could find parts of it and still put it together to make the pictures and sculptures. It was a nice experience to see, and I really enjoyed the photography opportunities.

We then ate dinner at some Greek restaurant on the way back to our hotel, and I ordered Dolamades. Yumm!

We then finished our day off with a Happy Birthday TOGA Themed Party for Abby. It was so fun! We had chocolate cake and watched our Scavenger Hunt videos and pictures. After that, we watched Mama Mia until we reached the scratched part of the disc, then we had to stop…darn!

This is a picture of (left to right, top to bottom) Erin Kreindler, Rachel Owens, Claire Hogan, Madeline Stewart, Stephanie Skolnik, Ariel Wilkes, Callie Phillips, Ellie Hopper, Holly Hepper, Me, Abby Waring, Demeris Burritt, and Caroline Leggett at Abby's 16th TOGA Birthday Party.

This is a picture of (left to right) Erin Kreindler, Holly Hepper, Rachel Owens, Claire Hogan, Madeline Stewart, Me, Abby Waring, Stephanie Skolnik, Demeris Burritt, Ariel Wilkes, Caroline Leggett, Callie Phillips, and Ellie Hopper at Abby's 16th TOGA Birthday Party.

This is a picture of (left to right) Callie Phillips and Holly Hepper at Abby's 16th TOGA Birthday Party.

 This is a picture of (left to right) Callie Phillips, Holly Hepper and Erin Kreinder at Abby's 16th TOGA Birthday Party.

This is a picture of Abby Waring blowing out her birthday candles.

This is another picture of Abby Waring blowing out her birthday candles.

 This is a picture of (left to right) Callie Phillips, Holly Hepper, Erin Kreindler (top) and Caroline Leggett at Abby's 16th TOGA Birthday Party. 

 This is a picture of (left to right) Callie Phillips, Holly Hepper and Erin Kreinder at Abby's 16th TOGA Birthday Party. 

 This is a picture of (left to right) Madeline Stewart, Holly Hepper and Claire Hogan at Abby's 16th TOGA Birthday Party. 

 This is a picture of (left to right) Rachel Owens and I at Abby's 16th TOGA Birthday Party. 

 This is a picture of (left to right) Madeline Stewart and Claire Hogan at Abby's 16th TOGA Birthday Party. 

This is a picture of (left to right) Madeline Stewart and Erin Kreindler at Abby's 16th TOGA Birthday Party. 

 This is a picture of (left to right) Erin Kreindler, Holly Hepper and Madeline Stewart at Abby's 16th TOGA Birthday Party. 

 This is a picture of (left to right) Abby Waring, Callie Phillips, Holly Hepper and Ellie Hopper at Abby's 16th TOGA Birthday Party. 

Yasoo!