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The most famous image from the island of Naxos, in the Greek Islands, depicts an empty marble gate backlit by the setting sun. Every postcard rack in town — there are a lot of them — contains multiple versions of the image.

Naturally this inspires every tourist on the island to line up at the gate at sunset to try to capture the image themselves. OK, I admit it, I went there too. Call me a lemming.

The funny thing is, it’s just not that great a picture. The gate is invariably lost to shadow, and the sun is reduced to an orange dot in the distance. But seeing the crowd made the trip worthwhile — jockeying for position, snapping away madly. I didn’t see any pictures like this in the postcard rack.