My Florence (21): Florence view (seen from Fiesole)
Date: 2 October 2010 (double click on the photo to enlarge it)
My Florence (20): The artist’s dog
11 October 2012, Uffizi (Florence, Italy). [Double click on the photo to enlarge it]
My Florence (18): Immigrant song
Led Zeppelin released one in 1970 (read the lyrics). And of course, Sting comes later in 1987 with another one (read the lyrics). And finally, there’s Shinehead’s 1992 Jamaican in New York (read the lyrics). This is my song, reduced to just one picture…
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My Florence (10): Realities of possible worlds…
I have found these pictures in an antique store’s window in Florence, on Via dei Fossi, very close to the the bridge named Ponte alla Carraia (it is not quite on the street, you have to enter some sort of inner yard). After hours of walking in a terrible warm day, in a place tourists rarely find, I started to fell like Gavrilescu must have felt in ‘La ţigănci / With the Gypsy Girls‘ by Mircea Eliade. Everything was upside down, and I let myself moved by a dream which exceeded reality… Could that world be a better one? The floor is yours…
My Florence (8): Chocolate
Pictures taken at the ‘Fiera del Cioccolato Artigianale’ (Artisan Chocolate Fair), 15 February 2012, Piazza della Repubblica, Florence, Italy. More about the event here. Point & shoot camera (Nikon Coolpix L100) & photos worked in Gimp.
My Florence (7): The Town Seen from Above
One of the best places in Florence to take pictures is Piazzale Michelangelo: the view is incredible great, you just need a good camera (a big zoom is a must, this is why I had to set aside my D7000 with its 16-85 mm and take a point-and-shoot camera with a 15x optical zoom). The pictures were shoot in two sessions over two years (pictures 0, 1, 4, 5, and 7 were shot in May 2010, while pictures 2, 3, 6 and 8 were shot in February 2011). Enjoy!
A wonderful Florentine, general picture:
Below, a picture with Palazzo Vecchio and the Duomo (The Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore):
We cannot forget about the well-known bridges; in front of the below picture you can see the Ponte Vecchio:
Below, three pictures with the Duomo (The Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore):
And of course here is Palazzo Vecchio, situated in Piazza della Signoria:
A general view of the great Basilica di Santa Croce (but there are also wonderful pictures with its façade, I will be back to this in another post):
Finally, no one can forget about the Great Synagogue of Florence:
Point & shoot camera (Nikon Coolpix L100) & photos worked in Gimp.
My Florence (3): The Mirrored City
Ok, so this is the beginning of a series of photos dedicated to a beautiful town – Florence / Italy. The first episode shows you the mirrored city (in order to get the best of each photo, click on it to enlarge it, then click again to enlarge it even more):
Point & shoot camera (Nikon Coolpix L100) & photos worked in Gimp.
My Florence (1): Italian graffiti
Sottopassaggio Piazza Le Cure, Florence, Italy, May 2010 [camera: Nikon Coolpix L100]
