Hospitality

Poseidon Hotel

Place: Rethymno, Crete
Photos: 37
Film: 3

The sun flaring between the beach bar umbrellas, the loungers dark in front of it — 01 / 37

Poseidon sits on the Rethymno beachfront, on a strip where every hotel photographs the same sea.

So the job was not one set of pictures. It was a look they could keep posting all season: the umbrellas from above, a drink in hand at golden hour, breakfast with the trident on the table.

The green of the umbrellas and the last hour of light became the palette. Their feed reads as one place now, and it still holds when they shoot the next post themselves.

The restaurant and cocktails awning under the balconies, orange umbrellas in front — 02 / 37

Breakfast from above, laid around a navy folder with the gold trident on it — 03 / 37

A hand holding a squat embossed glass of pink cocktail crowned with mint — 04 / 37

A hand holding a tall red cocktail with mint, strawberry and a dried orange slice — 05 / 37

Film

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An older couple sharing club sandwiches and beer at an outdoor table — 06 / 37

Two men carrying a turquoise inflatable mattress down the sand — 07 / 37

A parasail boat and jet skis on blue water, white loungers along the sand — 08 / 37

Rows of green and coral umbrellas on the sand, seen from the air at the surf line — 09 / 37

A woman walking at the waterline as the sun drops behind the harbour masts — 10 / 37

The beachfront straight down from the air, the whole grid of umbrellas meeting the sea — 11 / 37

A woman lying back on a striped lounger between the beds and the umbrellas — 12 / 37

A man floating face down on a pink lilo in clear turquoise water — 13 / 37

A woman riding an electric scooter along the promenade past rows of furled umbrellas — 14 / 37

The sun setting between the ribs of two beach umbrellas, swimmers still in the water — 15 / 37

The hotel seen from the beach, glass balconies above the green umbrellas — 16 / 37

A frozen daiquiri served inside a carved melon, held up in the light — 17 / 37

Blocks of green umbrellas set against coral and white ones, straight down on the sand — 18 / 37

Two women walking the promenade at dusk past a hotel sign and a parked scooter — 19 / 37

A woman on a lounger under furled umbrellas, palm fronds across the top of the frame — 20 / 37

The seafront road at dusk, cars and palms seen past a blurred foreground — 21 / 37

Loungers under a green umbrella with a parasail out over the water behind — 22 / 37

A hand holding an espresso martini with three coffee beans on the foam — 23 / 37

Breakfast laid on a white table by the window, juice and coffee and pastries — 24 / 37

The sun on the horizon over the harbour, its light running up the wet sand — 25 / 37

The beach and its green umbrellas framed by a doorway, a boat crossing the water — 26 / 37

A couple at a window table over breakfast, juice glasses between them — 27 / 37

Green umbrellas in rows beside white ones, straight down with people on the sand — 28 / 37

A woman at a window table drinking a spritz, looking out at the beach — 29 / 37

Gloved hands cutting melon into slices on a yellow board in the kitchen — 30 / 37

The coast from the air, the umbrella rows and the town running away to the headland — 31 / 37

Sunset over the town from above, the harbour arm curling out into the sea — 32 / 37

A steel tray of sliced oranges resting on a kitchen scale — 33 / 37

The seafront avenue at dusk, street lamps and palms running down the pavement — 34 / 37

The green Poseidon Beach changing room cabin standing under a palm — 35 / 37

A woman rinsing under the beach shower, the spray lit against the buildings — 36 / 37

A parasail high over the sea behind a speedboat, orange umbrellas below — 37 / 37

Credits

Place: Rethymno, Crete

Photos: 37
Film: 3

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