Strategic photo framing

There are many things we want to remember about our trip through Greece.  One of them is not that nearly every single site we have visited was under construction or renovation which in some way obstructed the best photos.

Before we left Epirus, we saw the famous site of Dodona where the sacred oak tree of Zeus in combination with the wind and the birds provided signs for the oracle to interpret.  The site was pretty desolate, and under extensive renovation of the theatre, as well as supporting an immense archeological dig that cut a 100 meter swath through the site.  This just made it more challenging to take pictures without workers or construction orange in them.

Here is the west side of the theatre taken at a pretty sharp angle:

As compared with this one of the archeological dig just across the path which has lots of workers (right front) and grad students (center back), the sitting woman who we suspect was the professor in charge of the dig (she just sat there writing things in her journal the entire time and didn't even leave for lunch), plastic tarps and construction orange fencing.  Even still, I framed out the 20'x20'x10' structure made of plastic tarps and 2x4s, where all the "authorized personnel" congregated to get out of the wind, and which was located right in front of the theatre.  grr.

Compositionally, these are both acceptable shots which tell wildly different stories, but which would you want to look back on as a reminder of a fantastic journey through Greece???