Rather than make a postcard view of this picturesque castle, I moved my vantage point in order to place the sun behind its crenelated tower and exposing on its glowing edge to create an abstracted silhouette. I used a 24mm wideangle lens to include the spidery overhead tree branches and take advantage of the thin clouds. The resulting image allows the viewer’s own imagination to fill in the details. The Knights of Rhodes originally built the Palace in the 14th century. After this Greek island fell to the Ottomans it was used as a fortress. The Italians occupied Rhodes in 1912, and rebuilt the palace into its present grandiose medieval style as a summer residence for King Victor Emmanuel III and later for Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.