Title: Past, Meet Future Year: 2025 Location: Μοναστήρι Παναγίας του Βουνού (Monastery of Panagia tou Vounou), Sifnos, Greece For centuries, the walls and gates surrounding this monastery on a small Greek island served not only to delineate property, but also to allow free passage to the pristine beaches below. A network of trails connect the worship site with the Aegean Sea, forming a unique connection with nature and the creations of the day's deity in residence. But lately, it is clear, all that has changed. The beach is steadily gaining bars and restaurants that cater to tourists; sight-seeing boat rides leave hourly from the pier, and luxury yachts, equipped with all the latest in seafaring technology, are anchored just offshore. Times have changed. There's a disconnect here, a break in aesthetic that is hard to define, but inescapable once you see it. These walls and gates may once have facilitated easy travel from the monastery to the rest of the island, but now they merely frame a world that has left them behind. Camera: Canon EOS 6D Lens: Canon EF 16-35mm f/4L IS USM ISO: 100 Focal Length: 20mm Aperture: f/20 Shutter Speed: 1/100 sec. Stylistic edits in Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom. The creator of this photograph hereby dedicates this photograph to the public domain under CC0 1.0 Universal, waiving all copyright and related rights to the fullest extent permitted by law.