Torino Sausages are my letter “T”. Although I am American, because I am in Italy this Thanksgiving I am not celebrating the holiday (my host mom had no idea it was thanksgiving) and thus do not want to post a thanksgiving themed picture. So instead I post a picture of Torino Sausages.
Archive for November, 2009
Sunday Still: The Letter T
Posted in photography, tagged Italy, Letter T, photography, Sausages, Sunday Still, Torino Sausages on November 29, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Up Close
Posted in Semester Abroad, photography, tagged Firenze, Florence, Il Duomo, Italy, photography, Travel on November 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I know what you’re thinking… “another Duomo post? really?” Well, yes. I do live two blocks away from it and is an incredible piece of architecture and Brunelleschi worked hard to earn the commission for the cupola. So to visit it once again, instead of just focusing on it’s exterior my friends and I finally [...]
Details of the Eiffel Tower
Posted in Semester Abroad, photography, tagged Eiffel Tower, Fall Abroad, France, Paris, photography, Travel on November 27, 2009 | 6 Comments »
So I’m returning briefly to the pictures of my Paris trip with more pictures of the Eiffel Tower. One my favorite thing about the Eiffel Tower was not how it looked from far a way but it’s iron detailing as you approach it. I also love standing over it and turning around and around in [...]
Two Words I Don’t Like…No foto
Posted in Semester Abroad, photography, tagged churches, Italy, Museums, No Photo, photography on November 26, 2009 | 4 Comments »
There are two words I don’t like…”no foto” (“no photo” always appears under them). I have never seen them so much in my until I began to enter churches in Italy (and Museums). Many places in the US the signs say “no flash”, which I completely understand (I don’t like the flash anyway). The flash has [...]
Large Proportions
Posted in Semester Abroad, photography, tagged Bernini, Italy, photography, Proportions, Roma, Rome, Sculpture, St. Peter's Basilica on November 24, 2009 | 6 Comments »
This is a response to my last post on St. Peter’s where I mentioned the use of large proportions to create a look to the basilica that made it seem smaller than it actually is. Two of those ways are evident in these two pictures below (I feel my art historian coming out).
This first picture [...]
St. Peter’s Columns!
Posted in photography, tagged Columns, Italy, photography, Rome, St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City on November 23, 2009 | 7 Comments »
This past weekend finally got to go to Roma. I had been once, but that was a layover at the beginning of the semester so it doesn’t really count. I got to see all the highlights: Vatican City, Coliseum, Trevi Fountain, the Roman Forum, Pantheon, and the Fountain of Four Rivers. My camera was out [...]
Sunday Still: Horse
Posted in photography, tagged Florence, Horse, photography, Sunday Still on November 22, 2009 | 6 Comments »
So this is my first Sunday Still so I hope I’m doing this right. I have seen a horse, but every where in Florence (and Italy) there are statues of people on horseback which is now what I think of when I see the word “horse”.
Fall Leaves!
Posted in Nature Photography, Semester Abroad, tagged Fall, Florence, Italy, Leaves, photography, Traveling, Tuscany on November 19, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Fall is my second favorite season because it always has these two perfect weeks when the sky is always blue and the leaves are so vibrant as they get ready to drop to the ground. Usually fall for me begins by the end of September but here in Florence it seemed to take forever to [...]
Il Duomo
Posted in Semester Abroad, photography, tagged Cathedrals, Cupolas, Firenze, Florence, Il Duomo, Italy, photography, Santa Maria del Fiore, Tuscany on November 18, 2009 | 4 Comments »
This semester I am takeing two classes about renaissance art and architecture, both talk about the cupola of the Florence Cathedral (Santa Maria del Fiore). Because the cupola was the last thing finished it is the only aspect of the duomo we study, but I find the facade amazing. I already talked about my first impression [...]
A, B, C, it’s easy as 1, 2, 3
Posted in Alphabet Project, photography, tagged "A", "C", Alphabet, Eiffel Tower, Paris, photography on November 17, 2009 | 8 Comments »
So I’m still working on my alphabet, and its slowly (very slowly) still coming together and here I’m focussing on the beginning. I currently have two good “A”s and two good “C”’s but I’m missing any good “B”.
The first “A” was taken in my yard and the second is the Eiffel Tower “A” that I [...]
