Photography
Last updated: September 2026The photographs of named places on this site come from Wikimedia Commons. Each one is used under a licence that permits commercial use — CC0, public domain, or CC BY. Where the licence asks for attribution, it is given below. Images have been cropped and colour-graded; the originals are linked.
Four assets are generated rather than photographed, and are listed separately at the end of this page. None of them shows a named place.
Generated assets
Four assets on this site are generated rather than photographed. None of them shows a named place — they are open water, stone, and a rendered scenic loop. When this site shows you Meteora or the Acropolis, it is showing you a real photograph of Meteora or the Acropolis.
| Asset | What it is | Tool |
|---|---|---|
| Home page hero video | Three scenic shots cross-faded into a nine-second loop. Rendered footage, not documentary footage of a specific place or date. | Google Veo 3 |
| Hero poster frame | The first frame of that loop, used as the still image before the video starts. | Google Veo 3 |
| “How it works” background | Open water at golden hour. No coastline, no landmark, no people. | Nano Banana |
| Logbook background | Stone surface texture, shown at 12% opacity. | Nano Banana |
Aegean Odyssey