Battle of
Actium Shoot
Picture Descriptions
Rev. 8-11-02
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7/22/02 (Monday) 003 Bill showing details of socket #15 at Octavian's Actian Naval Trophy Monument 004 Use of the jib to smoothly transition from base to Bill in front of sockets
7/23/02 (Tuesday) 005 Kyani Akti, The crew takes a CG background shot of the Actian Straits 006 Nikopolis Museum. Reuben using the jib. 007 Dimitris readies his mixer on Agios Nikolaos (the fishing boat that took us to the battle zone) 008 Reuben at the bow of Agios Nikoloas 009 Odeion at Nikpolis 010 View from Odeion up the Cardo (main N-S street) of Nikopolis to the Trophy Monument 011 Odeion at Nikpolis with city wall in the background 012 Dinner at Psatha ("Reed Mat"): Susan Smiley is on the phone with Reuben, who has just yelled "take a picture!"
7/24/02 (Wednesday) 013 Kalamitsi beach. Looking toward Leukas 014 Another 015 Cherry picker at the monument 016 View of the Actian Trophy Monument from atop the cherry picker |
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017 View of the Actian Trophy Monument from atop the cherry picker 018 Cherry picker 019 Cherry picker. Chris and machine operator
7/25/02 (Thursday) 020 N side of Ambracian Gulf (looking E at the rising sun) from the Agios Thomas peninsula 021 Taking CG background shots from N side of Ambracian Gulf from Agios ThomasGeorgios peninsula 022 K. Zachos interview at the Trophy Monument 023 Sheep at the N cemetry, Nikopolis 024 N cemetery, Nikopolis. View along the road toward the Trophy Monument 025 Collecting bales of hay, Nikopolis 026 Collecting bales of hay, Nikopolis. View toward Trophy Monument
7/26/02 (Friday) 027 Chris moving equipment into the Ioannina Museum 028 Bill and K. Zachos discuss the ram fragment and the ram relief from the Trophy Monument 029 Another. Bill shows on the relief a place which might correspond to the fragment 030 Bill and K. Zachos discuss the ram fragment from the Trophy Monument
7/27/02 (Saturday) 031a Paracheloitis: the Acheloos River delta. CG backgrounds were shot here 031 Another |
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7/27/02 (Saturday) 032 Chris shades the camera lens while shooting the CG background 033 Alexandra Lesk (Asst. Fixer) 034 Chris and Reuben 036 Paracheloitis: the Acheloos River delta. CG backgrounds were shot here 037 Dimitris Skoulokaris (sound) 038 Bill looking through the camera while the CG background is being shot 040 Ferries at the Rion-Antirion Crossing. Evoking the image of a "10" 041 Ferries at the Rion-Antirion Crossing 042 Patraic Gulf, sailboat and approaching storm 043 Alex gets releases 044 Another 045 Parthenon from my hotel balcony in Athens 046 Olympieion from my hotel balcony in Athens
7/28/02 (Sunday) DAY OFF 047 Parthenon from my hotel balcony in Athens 048 Olympieion from my hotel balcony in Athens 049a Erechtheion capital with city behind |
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7/28/02 (Sunday) DAY OFF 049 Karyatid
7/29/02 (Monday) 050 Bill on rower's bench. Olympias replica. 051 The camera stares down the bow of Olympias 052 Olympias. At the outrigger 053 Olympias. Rowers benches 054 Crew volunteers 055 Oar handlers 056 Fitting the oars through the oarports 057 Fitting the oars through the oarports 058 Oars in place along the starboard side 059 Port side volunteers at the oars 060 Starboard volunteers at the oars 062 Bow of Olympias 063 Another 064 Chris on the Cherry picker 065 Port side of Olympias under the cathead |
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7/29/02 (Monday) 066 Bow of Olympias from cherry picker 067 Olympias from cherry picker 068 Christos Yotis and Reuben 069 Reuben after the shoot is over (we are all exhausted)
7/30/02 (Tuesday) 070 Interview at American School of Classical Studies. Chris showing Bill how to act 071 The view from the hot seat 072 Do you think they are posing? 073 Traveling to Israel with 22 cases of equipment (plus carry ons) 074 Arrival in Israel 075a Reuben watched over the equipment (experiment with color adjustment--not very successful) 075 Reuben watched over the equipment (color as recorded) 076 Purchasing dinner in Tel Aviv
8/01/02 (Thursday) 077 Athlit ram 078 Timbers from inside the ram casing 079 Elisha Linder 080a Athlit ram from "waterline" perspective (color adjusted) |
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8/01/02 (Thursday) 080 Athlit ram from "waterline" (color as recorded) 081 Asaf Oron interview 082 Xray procedure (note film inside the ram) 083 Bill's interview at the ram 085a Camera and ram 085b Camera and ram. Even background 086 Chris films the ram 087a Chris films the ram. Even background 087 Chris films the ram 088 Film crew at the National Maritime Museum 089 National Maritime Museum
8/02/02 (Friday) 090 Chris with catapult balls from Dor |
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8/02/02 (Friday) 092 Catapult balls from Dor at Nach Sholim Museum 093 Israel (our sound man) harvests some sabras 094 Rafi, Israel, Chris, Leora, and Reuben at Dor
8/03/02 (Saturday) 095 Departing Israel with 22 cases of equipment 096 At the ticket counter in Ben Gurion Airport 097 Chris pointing toward his next frape upon our arrival in Athens 098 Collecting 22 baggage tags from the ticket lady in Athens
8/04/02 (Sunday) 099 Bill with son Alex at baggage claim in Tampa |
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(Images out of sequence)
100 Cleopatra Marina on Cape Actium (7/21/02) 101 Cleopatra Marina on Cape Actium (7/21/02) 102 Octavian's fleet station at Monolithi beach (7/22/02) 103 Reuben, Chris and Dimitris on Ag. Niklaos (7/23/02) 104 Naval Trophy from Odeion (7/23/02) 105 Ram fragments at the Ioannina Museum (7/26/02) 106 Bow of Olympias (7/29/02) 107 Reuben and Christos in a more characteristic pose (7/30/02) 108 ASCSA interview (I have taken too many pictures) (7/30/02) 109 Avshi, Leora and Shlomo. The faces say it all (8/01/02) 110 Shlomo Eisenberg and Elisha Linder (8/01/02) 111 Chris and Reuben "paint with light" (or so they tell me) (8/01/02) 112 Chris films the ram; original exposure (8/01/02) 112a Chris films the ram; exposure adjusted (8/01/02) |