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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Italy’
Two Words I Don’t Like…No foto
Posted in Semester Abroad, photography, tagged churches, Italy, Museums, No Photo, photography on November 26, 2009 | 3 Comments »
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 [...]
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 | 3 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 [...]
Gold…
Posted in photography, tagged Duomo, Fall Abroad, Gold, Italy, Orvieto, photography, Travel, Umbria on November 16, 2009 | 3 Comments »
In my pervious post, I commented on how I had never seen so much gold in a building, and that still stands true. However, the Orvieto Duomo facade runs a close second. The facade is covered in gold mosaics. I picked the two pictures below because I like how I framed the facade. The top one, [...]
Venice
Posted in Semester Abroad, tagged Doge's Palace, Italy, Murano Glass Factory, photography, San Marco Basilica, Travel, Venica on November 15, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I’m in Italy, and there is really only one city I know I have no choice but to visit: Venice. I mean it’s slowly disappearing right… So when my friend suggested it for Fall Break, I was right on board, although it was going to be at the end and it was going to be rushed. [...]
Getting Caught Up
Posted in Semester Abroad, tagged Backlight, Italy, photography, Sunset, Train, Traveling on November 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been m.i.a. again but this time with reason. I have not stopped takeing pictures but have really just been getting caught up in this semester. It’s hard enough just to fit work in between travels around Europe or fun days around Florence. So far this semester I have been to Sorrento, Capri, Positono, Pompeii, Pienza (twice), Siena, [...]
This is for real!
Posted in Semester Abroad, photography, tagged Abroad, Ancient Monuments, Europe, Italy, photography, Pompei on September 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The one country in Europe that I have always wanted to go to (think mainly because of the food) was to visit Italy. I’ve been it England, Amsterdam, Paris, and Spain (twice) but not Italy. Because Italy had always been my frist choice of place to go in Europe, it was my obvious choice for [...]
Assisi take one in Black and White
Posted in Semester Abroad, tagged Abroad, Assisi, Black and White, Italy, photography, Travel on September 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
When I fell in love with Italy I had this idea of it being old, like in the movies. Of course that is not what it’s like at all because there are tourists and cars everywhere. This makes it difficult for me to take the pictures that I have always dreamt about taking; a picture [...]
