Posts marked with the tag “Italy

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Stopover in Taormina

Saturday, 23rd January 2010 • Italy galleriesNo comments

A set of panoramic photographs of Taormina, an ancient town built high on the cliffs of Sicily’s eastern coast.


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Permanent Tourist 2010 Calendar

Monday, 14th December 2009 • Individual photographs, Landscape photography, Prints for sale, TravelNo comments

It’s been a hectic week and weekend, hence the delay in posting that I’ve released my 2010 calendar.


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Pollara Lighthouse

Saturday, 10th October 2009 • History, Italy galleries, TravelNo comments

A small gallery of a ruined and abandoned lighthouse on the main road from Malfa, atop three hundred metre high cliffs on the north western corner of Salina amongst the Aeolian Islands.


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Sciara di Fuoco

Tuesday, 18th August 2009 • Individual photographs, Landscape photography, TravelNo comments

Visiting the island volcano of Stromboli was one of the highlights of our trip to Italy and probably one of the top 5 highlights of our walks together.


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The Restaurant at the End of the World

Wednesday, 12th August 2009 • Individual photographs, Landscape photography, Travel1 comment

After processing a lot of photos from the past couple of months, I’m happy to be returning to the photos I took when Jo and I were on holiday in Italy this May. This is the next in the sequence of photos I’d like to show you, which is of the restaurant one passes on the way to the Sciara di Fuoco on the island of Stromboli.


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Towards the Stream of Fire

Wednesday, 3rd June 2009 • TravelNo comments

Visiting Stromboli was a long-time goal for both Jo and for me, though for Jo much longer than myself!


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Brent and Marta’s wedding

Saturday, 23rd May 2009 • Event galleries, Friends and Family, TravelNo comments

Starting with a long journey to the Aeolian Islands and pre-wedding drinks on a tempestuously windy hotel terrace, Jo and I had a great time at my oldest friend Brent’s [...]


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Off to Salina

Tuesday, 12th May 2009 • TravelNo comments

Time flies; it’s already two weeks shy of a year since


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Leaving Capri

Tuesday, 21st April 2009 • Individual photographs, Travel1 comment

Thoughts of our upcoming late Spring holiday to the Aeolian Islands, off the coast of Sicily, have inspired me to have a flick through last year’s holiday shots.


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Ponte Vecchio

Sunday, 29th March 2009 • Individual photographs, TravelNo comments

A gem from the couple of hundred 35mm frames I’ve scanned today: this is just cropped a little and retouched to remove dust marks. All I can really remember about [...]


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Duomo from the Campanile, Florence

Wednesday, 4th March 2009 • History, Photography, TravelNo comments

We are small and there is so much to see, that we should get on with it and not let smaller things than us get in the way.


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Santa Maria del Carmine, Milan

Monday, 3rd November 2008 • PhotographyNo comments

An unlikely entrance for a massive brick church, looming over narrow lanes in the heart of Milan, not far from Sforzesco castle. Work began on the church in 1400 AD, [...]


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Life amongst death

Saturday, 19th July 2008 • TravelNo comments

A visit to the ruined city of Pompeii is primarily about history, destruction and death. But there is a great deal of life there too; not just the tourists in [...]


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Dark Interior, Pompeii, Italy

Thursday, 17th July 2008 • Individual photographs, TravelNo comments

Jo makes her way interestedly around one of the few semi-intact rooms in the ancient ruined city of Pompeii.


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Dog Shooting, Pompeii, Italy

Wednesday, 9th July 2008 • Individual photographs, TravelNo comments

One of those perfect moments, when time seems to slow down and the photograph almost takes itself. A photographer taking a picture – “shooting” – a sleeping stray dog through [...]


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