Home again, home again… it’s good to be back home in Italy. I had a fantastic week last week visiting with friends when I wasn’t working, but it is truly good to get back home to my family and my cat and my own bed. And, it’s a nice sunny morning as well, so there is nothing in life to complain about. I hope you all have a good Monday!
Timing is Everything
With photography, timing is everything. Finding the transient light, that fleeting expression, the transitions of nature. Or in this case, that other photographer’s flash! I love this image from Venice, where just I happened to have the shutter open at the moment someone in the gondola took a picture. I love the star of light from the flash, the sharp shadow of the gondolier on the wall, the interesting exposure of the buildings. A serendipitous happenstance, I couldn’t have planned this shot. That makes it all the better.
Light and Dark
Many of my photos include lines, and this image of bicycles is just a different type of lines. Alternating light and dark, the rows of bicycles with the light coming through set them off perfectly. One of my favorites from Amsterdam.
Let there be light
Love windows. Love windows with light coming through. Love windows with light coming through on a wood floor. Doesn’t this look peaceful? Doesn’t this look like what you want a living room to look like? I do. I want a comfy chair and a book and a blanket in that light. A cat on my lap. A pot of tea by my side. I can’t help it, when I see something like this, I just have to capture it. My own personal light when it’s dark outside.
What a crazy week this has been. It’s not work, that’s been reasonable, it’s this darn Italian driver’s license test! I’ve studied probably 15 hours or more in the last 7 days. Taken probably 50 or more practice tests. My passing rate is maybe 70-80% on average. The wonderful thing is that we can take the test in English. The horrible thing is that the English book has about half of the info that you can be tested on. So, I’m literally taking the tests to learn what I don’t know! If I’m lucky, I’ll get a test that has answers I know. If I’m not… well… I’ll be studying a lot more.
The test is tomorrow at 10am. Wish me luck!
Arches
I loved this courtyard in the Palazzo Ducale in Genova. I’ve been looking at the photos I have in queue to post on my blog and have noticed that I have a LOT with arches. Arches inside buildings, arches outside. Arches of gates, arches of hallways, arches of windows. Either arches just catch my eye or they are just everywhere here in Europe! Maybe both. I will probably never be able to answer that question, because you can’t really extract the photographer from the photographs to see the true reality. You just see the piece of reality that the photographer saw at that moment. And my reality includes a LOT of arches…
Into the Light
I love sihouette shots, and this is a new favorite of Patrick and Brandon walking into the morning light from a tunnel in Disneyland Paris. There is something magical about a shot like this – you don’t know quite where the people are going or what they will face, but you know that it’s brighter than where they were and has to be good.
After days of trying to get them to upload, I finally got my Disneyland Paris photos in an online album. Have fun visiting virtually, and leave a comment or two! I always like to get feedback.