A Quick Thursday Post: Photos of a Fountain

My colleague Richard Rothaus and I have been including the Hadji Mustafa fountain on our afternoon walks around the village of Corinth. In fact, we visit it so often that we’ve become friendly with the local working dogs (but not too friendly) who protect a flock of sheep nearby. I’ve been working on getting a good photo of the fountain with uneven success (usually because I do things like forget to change my camera’s ISO settings or insist on shooting wide open or some insanity). I’ve tried to shoot it with my little Sigma with varied, largely unsatisfying results: I’ve gotten close with my big Sony: Mostly, though Richard and I talk about the days when the Isthmia dig van stopped at the fountain to fill up water tanks and when we’d stop on the way into the field to fill up our water bottles. We also talk about Pierre MacKay’s little article on the fountain that appeared in the Hesperia in 1967. I have my students read it in Greek history class because it is a lovely little article…