While I have taken just a few photos since I arrived in Italy, I have taken some that seem to stand out. One was the fine art photo of the “Trees by Blur” on the Vallombrosa Abbey post.
It is easy to get other blurry shots from fast moving vehicles. I was trying to get evidence of the many plant nurseries along this main highway. Some of the shots, like the first one, with some editing would be passable for evidence of the sites we could see.
The second one is a second attempt at the nurseries that gave this great shot–can you guess? (It is the side of a truck.)
On one train ride, we got a nearly private car on a old rural train car. As part of that adventure, we went through several tunnels, which would have resulted in a great shot like this one.
It was black in the car although it was the middle of the day! I don’t know why they forgot to turn any lights on…in subsequent tunnels they turned on lights. (I didn’t really get a shot because I didn’t get my camera out in time….this is the great shot you get when you take a picture of the black purse in your lap.)
Finally, for the competition of best photo, is this one taken during our visit to the Carrara marble quarry (where Michelangelo got stone for the David). Near the top of the mountain where we went to see how the marble is extracted, we moved into the clouds….or a heavy fog, with this result….
To prove we really were in fog, I took this shot that showed the edge of the cliff (on the left) and one that showed a power line showing vaguely through the fog on the right.
A second competitor for a great photo from the quarry is the muddy road, which was wet with white marble dust. (The second photo is to prove it really is of the muddy road, since you can see a portion of non-muddy road on the lower right.)
But the quarry was wonderful, even in the fog….more on that to come.
[Update: May 19 from a visit to Venice]
Would this photo of my view of Venice from the water “bus” also compete for great photo? Seriously, it was all I could see from standing in the crush of people.
This photo is more fun–it is a close up shot of a lily. Ah, now that is better.
(this one was done on purpose!)
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Fascinating photography my friend. The marble quarry sounds interesting. That tunnel shot brought back some not so great memories. I still tell myself, I can do tunnels! Did the one outside Superior last week and it was a piece of cake!
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