Ioannis Pavlis, is a self-taught photographer born in Samos island, Greece, by the well known photo-reporter of the Northern-east Aegean islands, Georgios Pavlis. He immigrated in the United States during the decade of 1980, where he became the co-owner of a restaurant in Pennsylvania. Furthermore he experimented himself in various styles of photography, travelling throughout the world to shoot people, customs and landscapes. 500px.com/YiannisPavlis .I love to photograph beautiful views & I enjoy travelling so I tend to combine the two.

I hope my pictures help give you some inspiration to get out there in this beautiful world & capture images the way others have inspired me. A photograph is NEVER an exact copy of reality. Photography is manipulation of light and time. The manipulation starts when you set your shutter speed to capture a certain amount of time. It continues when you adjust your aperture to let the desired amount of light in. These are captured on an emulsion or sensor, which are designed by others to represent the light that goes trough your lens in a certain way. In the digital age, when you shoot "straight out of camera" JPGs - your images further manipulated by the built in software. When you shoot "straight out of camera" you already get a heavily manipulated representation of "reality". You also let others decide how your photos look (camera or film manufacturer). As a photographer, I believe my photographs represent my perception of reality. I start shaping this perception when I dial in my exposure settings. I fine tune it in post-process. It's OK for someone to like the SOOC results. But to claim that one can take a photo that "doesn't change reality" is not understanding how photography works. Further more, to claim that you can't process your photo if you want to be a "good" photographer is just an absurd lie with no grip on reality.