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Rome is an interesting place. You either love it or hate it. I am on the fence for this place. I will give it another chance in the future.
The views from Janiculum Hill are quite nice. Not many people venture up here.
So here we are, on the road again, and I hadn't sorted out the Sony A6000 to Snapseed interfaces.
I shoot RAW and my image transfers from this trip look meh. After 4 weeks it finally occurred to me to look at the file size. Lo and behold, thumbnail jpgs were transferred. Ugh.
This is why my cellphone images look sharp on Flickr and the A6000 images do not.
I tested shooting RAW + JPG and the good, full Rez JPG does transfer. Lesson learned.
Next thing is image processing.
I read about how Norman Seeff used to print high contrast works with a twist. He used a black stocking between the enlarger lens and paper to give a interesting softness to some of his images.
He wasn't by any means the only one to do this.
When I worked at Samy Cameras photo lab on Sunset Blvd in Hollyweird we used to do this at client request. It was really no big deal.
What was a bigger deal was our use of Agfa Portriga Rapid 111 Glossy paper. It gave a gorgeous deep walnut brown tone. We used this for may of the gallery shows we printed for various then famous photographers.
Taking the black stocking idea and borrowing tones from Portriga Rapid, it turns out, expresses pretty well how I feel about Rome.
So, here is a series of images done in an old, outdated, likely not very hip manner.
The centerpiece of Rome's beautiful Navona Square is the Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (Fountain of the Four Rivers), one of the most famous fountains in the Eternal City. It was built in the mid 17th century after a design by Bernini.
Rom - Forum Romanum
The Roman Forum, also known by its Latin name Forum Romanum (Italian: Foro Romano), is a rectangular forum (plaza) surrounded by the ruins of several important ancient government buildings at the center of the city of Rome. Citizens of the ancient city referred to this space, originally a marketplace, as the Forum Magnum, or simply the Forum.
For centuries the Forum was the center of day-to-day life in Rome: the site of triumphal processions and elections; the venue for public speeches, criminal trials, and gladiatorial matches; and the nucleus of commercial affairs. Here statues and monuments commemorated the city's great men. The teeming heart of ancient Rome, it has been called the most celebrated meeting place in the world, and in all history. Located in the small valley between the Palatine and Capitoline Hills, the Forum today is a sprawling ruin of architectural fragments and intermittent archaeological excavations attracting 4.5 million or more sightseers yearly.
Many of the oldest and most important structures of the ancient city were located on or near the Forum. The Roman Kingdom's earliest shrines and temples were located on the southeastern edge. These included the ancient former royal residence, the Regia (8th century BC), and the Temple of Vesta (7th century BC), as well as the surrounding complex of the Vestal Virgins, all of which were rebuilt after the rise of imperial Rome.
Other archaic shrines to the northwest, such as the Umbilicus Urbis and the Vulcanal (Shrine of Vulcan), developed into the Republic's formal Comitium (assembly area). This is where the Senate—as well as Republican government itself—began. The Senate House, government offices, tribunals, temples, memorials and statues gradually cluttered the area.
Over time the archaic Comitium was replaced by the larger adjacent Forum and the focus of judicial activity moved to the new Basilica Aemilia (179 BC). Some 130 years later, Julius Caesar built the Basilica Julia, along with the new Curia Julia, refocusing both the judicial offices and the Senate itself. This new Forum, in what proved to be its final form, then served as a revitalized city square where the people of Rome could gather for commercial, political, judicial and religious pursuits in ever greater numbers.
Eventually much economic and judicial business would transfer away from the Forum Romanum to the larger and more extravagant structures (Trajan's Forum and the Basilica Ulpia) to the north. The reign of Constantine the Great saw the construction of the last major expansion of the Forum complex—the Basilica of Maxentius (312 AD). This returned the political center to the Forum until the fall of the Western Roman Empire almost two centuries later.
(Wikipedia)
Das Forum Romanum (Römischer Marktplatz) in Rom ist das älteste römische Forum und war Mittelpunkt des politischen, wirtschaftlichen, kulturellen und religiösen Lebens. Es liegt in einer Senke zwischen den drei Stadthügeln Kapitol, Palatin und Esquilin und war der Ort vieler öffentlicher Gebäude und Denkmäler.
Ursprünglich ein von einem Bach durchzogenes, sumpfiges Tal, wurde es laut der antiken Überlieferung, die nicht mit dem bis wohl ins 8. Jahrhundert v. Chr. zurückreichenden archäologischen Befund übereinstimmt, erst unter dem legendären etruskischen König Lucius Tarquinius Priscus zu Beginn des 6. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. in die Stadt einbezogen. Den Höhepunkt seines prachtvollen Ausbaus erlebte es in der Römischen Kaiserzeit. Es ist heute eine der wichtigsten Ausgrabungsstätten des antiken Roms.
(Wikipedia)
So here we are, on the road again, and I hadn't sorted out the Sony A6000 to Snapseed interfaces.
I shoot RAW and my image transfers from this trip look meh. After 4 weeks it finally occurred to me to look at the file size. Lo and behold, thumbnail jpgs were transferred. Ugh.
This is why my cellphone images look sharp on Flickr and the A6000 images do not.
I tested shooting RAW + JPG and the good, full Rez JPG does transfer. Lesson learned.
Next thing is image processing.
I read about how Norman Seeff used to print high contrast works with a twist. He used a black stocking between the enlarger lens and paper to give a interesting softness to some of his images.
He wasn't by any means the only one to do this.
When I worked at Samy Cameras photo lab on Sunset Blvd in Hollyweird we used to do this at client request. It was really no big deal.
What was a bigger deal was our use of Agfa Portriga Rapid 111 Glossy paper. It gave a gorgeous deep walnut brown tone. We used this for may of the gallery shows we printed for various then famous photographers.
Taking the black stocking idea and borrowing tones from Portriga Rapid, it turns out, expresses pretty well how I feel about Rome.
So, here is a series of images done in an old, outdated, likely not very hip manner.
If you are planning to visit Rome, I advise you to look at the list of the best hotels and Airbnb, check the different locations on the centre of Rome city.
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Crossing the Tiber
View of the Tiber River in Rome and St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, the largest church in the world.
"The Church is the Body of Christ, and as such it is both heavenly and earthly..."
(Scott Hahn)
Thy will be done,
on earth as it is in Heaven...
(The Lord's Prayer)
On Earth as It Is in Heaven - The Mission
(soundtrack from the 1986 film "The Mission")
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMB0eg6yA78&list=RDOMB0eg6yA7...
The world of today is one great mission land,
even in countries of long-standing Christian tradition...
Аnd so, today's world needs many apostles - especially
apostles who are young and courageous...to build a new civilization
- a civilization of love, of justice and of peace.
(St John Paul II)
Karol is an inspiring movie that traces the life of young Karol Wojtyła, leading to his election as the Pontiff known as John Paul II.
Rome’s Tiber river,
Is fond of lively girls.
Warm love flowing,
Eyes gleaming like pearls.
Let me rinse your soul,
Wash and ripple your hair,
Let me be your nutrition,
The cloak you wear.
Your timeless beauty,
I envisioned in a wet dream.
May one of you,
Become the goddess of my stream.
I’ll put you next to me,
Here on my throne.
I’ll have your features,
Carved in eternal stone.
Poem: Jan Elemans
2012
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Statue representing the River Tiber,
symbol of Rome, peeking at the two ladies.
Quattro Fontane
Rome
Italy
S'étendant entre le Capitole, le Palatin et l'Esquilin, le Forum à l’origine était un vallon marécageux. A la fin du VIe siècle av. J.C., le roi étrusque Tarquinius Priscus (dit Tarquin l'Ancien) assainit la vallée en construisant l’un des premiers systèmes d’égout au monde : la Cloaca Maxima. Le Forum (de l’adjectif forus, signifiant "à l'extérieur" : dans les premiers temps le forum était situé en dehors de la ville) Romanum ou Forum Magnum est construit à partir du VIIème siècle av. J.-C sur une ancienne nécropole et il subira continuellement des aménagements et des modifications. Selon Vitruve, le forum romain est rectangulaire avec une proportion entre longueur et largeur de 3 pour 2, contrairement à l'agora grecque qui est carrée. Il est pendant plus de douze siècles la place publique où les citoyens romains se réunissent pour traiter d'affaires commerciales, politiques, économiques, judiciaires ou religieuses. Se trouveront ici entre autres, le sénat (Curie), la tribune aux harangues (Rostres), le temple de Saturne, de Castor et Pollux, de la Concorde et plusieurs basiliques …
Stretching between the Capitol, Palatine and Esquiline, the Forum originally was a marshy valley. At the end of the 6th century BC J.C., the Etruscan king Tarquinius Priscus (known as Tarquin the Elder) cleans the valley by building one of the first sewage systems in the world: the Cloaca Maxima. The Forum (adjective forus, meaning "outside": in the early days the forum was located outside the city) Romanum or Forum Magnum is built from the 7th century BC. J.-C on an old necropolis and it will continually undergo adjustments and modifications. According to Vitruvius, the Roman forum is rectangular with a proportion between length and width of 3 to 2, unlike the Greek agora which is square. It is for more than twelve centuries the public place where Roman citizens meet to deal with commercial, political, economic, judicial or religious affairs. Will be found here among others, the senate (Curie), the tribune with the harangues (Rostres), the temple of Saturn, Castor and Pollux, the Concorde and several basilicas …
These columns came out of the Temple to Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill. Repurposed, of course, by the church. As is the statue of Jupiter himself.
So here we are, on the road again, and I hadn't sorted out the Sony A6000 to Snapseed interfaces.
I shoot RAW and my image transfers from this trip look meh. After 4 weeks it finally occurred to me to look at the file size. Lo and behold, thumbnail jpgs were transferred. Ugh.
This is why my cellphone images look sharp on Flickr and the A6000 images do not.
I tested shooting RAW + JPG and the good, full Rez JPG does transfer. Lesson learned.
Next thing is image processing.
I read about how Norman Seeff used to print high contrast works with a twist. He used a black stocking between the enlarger lens and paper to give a interesting softness to some of his images.
He wasn't by any means the only one to do this.
When I worked at Samy Cameras photo lab on Sunset Blvd in Hollyweird we used to do this at client request. It was really no big deal.
What was a bigger deal was our use of Agfa Portriga Rapid 111 Glossy paper. It gave a gorgeous deep walnut brown tone. We used this for may of the gallery shows we printed for various then famous photographers.
Taking the black stocking idea and borrowing tones from Portriga Rapid, it turns out, expresses pretty well how I feel about Rome.
So, here is a series of images done in an old, outdated, likely not very hip manner.