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Another fun sign [signs?] in Venice

Note the two signs in the upstairs windows.  They say "Dead End" - 

Lovely arches and columns, Prague, CZ

Just one image of many, taken a month ago, which I'm slowly but surely working my way through.  Too many to include all, here's a good example.  I'm now working on pulling together the best of the trip's photos.

An image from New Salem, where Abraham Lincoln once lived.

We took a weekend and drove to Southeast Iowa [photos from the cities/towns we visited are at my Flickr site.

Then we went on and stopped at New Salem, Illinois, just north of Springfield.  This is a recreation of a town in which Lincoln spent several years before moving to Springfield and law and politics.  This image is of a cupboard in one of the houses or stores there.

Padova

A university town on a bright sunny lovely day.

Gondoliers, waiting for passengers

Today (Thursday) started with light clouds, then it rained, then stopped but stayed grey and cool. Loads of walking, of course.

View of Venice

Venice on perfect sunny day, from San Giorgio

An image from Venice, April 2009: Gondolas

I decided to have more fun working with an image of gondolas using my color software to heighten some of the colors and effects:

An image from Venice, April 2009: Padua

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

An image from Venice, April 2009: Rainy Day Talk

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.  

an image from Venice, April 2009: Rainy Day Gondolier

Even in the rain, Gondoliers roam the canals.