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Rome wasn't built in a day and you'll need much more than a day to take in this timeless city. The city is a real-life collage of piazzas, open-air markets, and astonishing historic sites.
Rome is the capital of Italy and the largest and most populous city in the country. It covers an area of 1,285 square kilometres and has nearly 3 million residents.
Most Visited Tourist Attractions In Rome: The Pantheon, Trevi Fountain, Roman Forum, Spanish steps, Piazza del Campidoglio, Castel Sant’Angelo, Vatican, St. Peter’s Basilica, Colosseum, piazza Venezia, piazza Navona, piazza Barberini, piazza della Rotonda, piazza della Minerva ,piazza del Popolo etc.
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So, here is a series of images done in an old, outdated, likely not very hip manner.
Rome 2008, taken with a film camera.
Rome 2008, taken with a film camera.
Rome 2008, taken with a film camera.
Palazzo Venezia is the original structure in a complex consisting of a modest medieval house intended as the residence of the cardinals appointed to the church of San Marco. In 1469 it became a residential papal palace, having undergone a massive extension, and in 1564, Pope Pius IV, to win the sympathies of the Republic of Venice, gave the mansion to the Venetian embassy to Rome, stipulating that part of the building would be kept as a residence for the cardinals. It currently houses the National Museum of the Palazzo Venezia.
Much of the palazzo’s stone was quarried from the Colosseum, a common practice until the 18th century. The design is traditionally attributed to Leone Battista Alberti. From 1797 throughout the nineteenth century, as Austria succeeded the Republic, the building was the seat for the Austrian ambassador to the Vatican. In 1916, Italy, at war with Austria-Hungary, seized the building. It was subsequently restored. Benito Mussolini had his office in the Palazzo Venezia and used its balcony overlooking the Piazza Venezia to deliver many of his most notable speeches. In late 2010 Mussolini's unfinished "most secret" bunker was discovered beneath the building.
Women in uniform
-Beehive hairdo, 45 on the hip
Patrolwoman Saunders, don't you give her no whip
Took me to the station for a breathtest
then back to the bedroom for some house-arrest-
(song by: Iron Maiden)
at Piazza del Poppolo.
Italiaanse schoonheid in uniform.
Northern Gas Board (NGB), Rome Street Gasworks, Boustead's Grassing, Carlisle on 13th August 1969 with the rare Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns-built (RSH) 'Husky' 0-4-0 diesel-mechanical locomotive (Works No.7869 built in 1956) standing alongside a coal stockpile and the now listed No.4 gasholder, built in 1878-9 by J Hepworth, engineer. The private sidings connected with the BR freight avoiding line near Bog Junction. Originally a RSH hire/demonstrator locomotive, this loco was placed on load to the NGB's Redheugh Gasworks, Gateshead in August 1956. Clearly it was a successful move as the gas board placed an order for a new model, this (Works No.7899), this being delivered in 1958 to Redheugh. The NGB eventually decided to purchase the 'demonstrator' loco, Works No.7869 and upon the deal being completed she had new worksplates dated 1960 affixed to the bonnet side and was deployed at the Carlisle works, replacing a Peckett named 'Atlas' which was sent for scrap shortly thereafter. Rail traffic ceased at the gasworks during the year of this visit and the 'Husky' was sold on to Richard Johnson & Nephew for use at their wireworks at Forge Lane, Manchester. It did not survive into preservation, however the Tanfield Railway has one working example (Works No.7901/1958), and the private logistics company of A.V Dawson in Middlesbrough has another (Works No.7900/1958) 'plinthed'outside their offices at the Port of Middlesbrough.
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