We took a weekend and drove to Southeast Iowa [photos from the cities/towns we visited are at my Flickr site.
While I was in Venice recently, I made it a point to take pictures of signs all over the city, in many different places. I have assembled those into a poster sized [20" x 30"] image for sale at my gallery. Follow this link. I think it worked out fairly well.
A university town on a bright sunny lovely day.
Today (Thursday) started with light clouds, then it rained, then stopped but stayed grey and cool. Loads of walking, of course.
Venice on perfect sunny day, from San Giorgio
I am mainly using Aperture but I do have and use iPhoto for various purposes and I want to put in a plug now for a great program that makes using iPhoto even easier than it is: iPhoto Buddy.
I decided to have more fun working with an image of gondolas using my color software to heighten some of the colors and effects:
We went to Padua for the opening of an exhibition of photographs from The Oxford Project [more information at OxfordProject.com] curated by a friend, Amy Worthen, of the Des Moines Art Center. We didn't have time to do it justice [we did see the Giotto frescoes, though] but here is one image, from the Palace:
'Palazzo della Ragione' (The region’s Palace). This building has its origins in 1218, when the city of Padua constructed it because it needed a building for its court. In 1306 a new floor, the arcade and the ceiling were added. Unluckily the original decoration of the building (by Giotto) was destroyed in a fire in 1420.
from Padua on VirTourist
I took several images of these people talking in the corridor, out of the rain, as others went by them in the calle. This one, I decided to have some fun using editting software to bring out some colors in the image, otherwise muted in the shadows.
Even in the rain, Gondoliers roam the canals.
