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Rus in Urbe
This is a belated post as I have been travelling without much chance to get on line. Rus in urbe – the country in the city, as the Romans used to say – definitely applies to the centre of Paderborn. The paths round the river and lakes can sometimes seem quite wild. This arcing shape […]
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The Mill
Continuing the theme of the countryside in the town, I found this old mill in the town centre of Paderborn. This is probably appropriate, since the town is named from the 200 springs or so that rise around the old cathedral and which join to form the Pader. Shot in square format with the GX200, […]
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Caught in the cracks
There were a lot of pictures from the Verona trip which I haven’t yet sorted through. Many of the streets in Verona are cobbled in an attractive fan pattern, which is what I tried to capture here. The small bright bits of paper caught in the cracks were a bonus and help make the picture. […]
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Wine and Oil
The ability to produce wine and olive oil are almost the definition of the Mediterranean climate – at least that’s what my geography teacher told me a very long time ago. I am sure that there are many more sophisticated definitions, but in Italy it certainly seems good enough for me. Wine and oil are […]
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Fisherman’s Net
One of the joys of being in the Italian lakes area is the cooking with fresh local lake fish. These are mostly caught by local fishermen in small boats with nets, which when unused are piled seemingly willy nilly into great plastic barrels. They make for interesting shapes: This is an unprocessed GF1 jpeg from […]
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Evening’s Rest
Lake Garda is cross-crossed by ferries between its various towns. Given the mountainous country in the northern half of the lake, this is often almost as quick as going by road. The ferries vary from state of the art hydrofoils providing a ‘servicio rapido’ to old girls like this one, tied up alongside the ferry […]
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Approaching Storm
It seems you can never be certain of plain sailing, even on a fine day. I turned round while on a ferry on Lake Garda and saw this yacht sailing into a squall and just grabbed the shot instinctively. The image works in colour, largely because it is essentially monochromatic in nature: But once again […]
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Here is an image that I really like – and one that is rather suitable for Easter – but I am not sure that it is quite technically perfect. I shot it in the delightful round (as the name suggests) eleventh century Rotonda di San Lorenzo in Mantua (Mantova). Because I was in a church […]
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Masks
Verona used to be ruled by Venice and it is still part of the Veneto region of Italy. It is therefore not surprising to see carnival masks on sale, especially in the run up to Easter (although I guess that they are pretty common everywhere). They proved an opportunity to experiment with the narrow depth […]
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What is real?
Interior designers have developed the Roman practice of painting exteriors on their interior walls – a practice carried through to today. However, I can’t think of a time I have seen this carried out with such bravura as in the amphitheatre in Verona, which was undergoing the slow process of turning it into the open […]
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One Picture, One Day 