Orvieto, Italy
A medieval clifftop town about an hour north of Rome. Well worth visiting. (Click on image to enlarge.)
A medieval clifftop town about an hour north of Rome. Well worth visiting. (Click on image to enlarge.)
On my trip home I had a layover in London, and on the flight in our plane did a scenic circuit of London’s airspace while waiting for an open runway. I snapped this shot of what I think is the Olympic stadium area. It looks similar to this Google maps satellite shot. Can anyone confirm?
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Indeed, Patrick, indeed. Click for full size. Taken in Florence, across the piazza from Santa Maria Novella.
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Taken on the road, a picture worth 2,300 words in these days of inflation. Click for full size. (Note to self: you’re not in Europe anymore.)
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Shooting for Artistic Genius: When It Flourishes in the presence of real Greek temples, monuments, and amphitheatres. Awe inspiring. Greek culture, centered especially in Athens, was the fount of what art historian E. H. Gombrich called “the greatest and most astonishing revolution in the whole history of art.” The intensely personal poetry of Sappho, the
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Shooting the last two days in Florence, where republican politics, relatively free markets and innovative business, relaxed religion, and humanistic philosophy laid the groundwork for the explosion of artistic creativity in the 1400s — Brunelleschi, Masaccio, Ghirlandaio, Leonardo, Botticelli, Michelangelo, Raphael, and the list goes on. Awesome. Visual delights everywhere, a strong sense of living
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Shooting yesterday at Claude Monet’s magnificent house and grounds at Giverny, about an hour west of Paris along the Seine. It was there that he painted his beloved waterlilies. Monet left his world-class mark in two fields — painting and gardening. At Giverny he lived his final decades of a long life, after a hard-fought
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Shooting in Paris today, all over the place. The rule for street parking in Paris is: Whatever you can get way with. Success, I’m happy to report. Aside from some great locations, an accomplishment was my costume change in the car in the touristy Pigalle area without getting arrested for indecent exposure. (Though Pigalle’s shops
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