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The Spanish Steps are a set of steps in Rome, Italy, climbing a steep slope between the Piazza di Spagna at the base and Piazza Trinità dei Monti, dominated by the Trinità dei Monti church at the top. (2/23/2019)
Panorama stitched from 5 shots. A nicely scented English cottage garden with many roses just outside the back door of the Clergy House. A more formal garden can be glimpsed beyond the hedge to the left. Behind and to the right you can just see the spire of the church of St Andrew, Alfriston.
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462 steps to the ground..
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Cropping: When traveling and taking pictures, there's always the question of people. Do you want them in your image or not? Sometimes it helps to have them in to give your subject perspective. You have to ask yourself - 1. What the main story/subject here and what do I want to bring attention to? 2. How do I want to tell the story? Wide scope where the "looker" is deciding for themselves or are you giving it to them --no question! Here's an example where I wanted to showcase these steep stone steps... the people were on private tour. Without asking them to move (we didn't have time to wait) I decided to take the pic and crop later. I like the middle best in this instance. Far left is the original. Middle crop you still keep the sense of the steps, and they aren't the 2nd place subject in the pic. Right side--I think you lose too much of the sense of how steep they are and the steps themselves start to become secondary...
Lets go back to the warmer autumn days briefly...
I visited Tarr Steps in Exmoor numerous times this autumn to get the conditions I wanted, and luckily on my last visit, as the last light faded and the rain poured I managed to capture this shot. I wanted to have the tree in the corner covered in red leaves, and being a sheltered spot, it took a long time to get to this color.
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I think running up these steps with a camera bag full of gear was worth it, don't you??
7 shot panorama, though you might not realise! Trying to decide if it's oversaturated though? Ironic, as I don't think I made any changes to saturation!
The Bootmakers Steps - Went to the memorial village of of Oradour-Sur-Glane not far from Limoges. Not a place I will forget soon. It's a harrowing story and one that the world, at times, doesn't seem to have learned from. The only life in the village now is the flowers/weeds and as in this picture the odd lizard.
A few days later we talking to a french friend. On hearing where we had been she said of our visit, that it was a place you visit once only. If only that were possible for the human race.
The Spanish Steps are a set of steps in Rome, Italy, climbing a steep slope between the Piazza di Spagna at the base and Piazza Trinità dei Monti, dominated by the Trinità dei Monti church at the top.
The monumental stairway of 135 steps (the slightly elevated drainage system is often mistaken for the first step) was built with French diplomat Étienne Gueffier's bequeathed funds of 20,000 scudi, in 1723–1725, linking the Trinità dei Monti church that was under the patronage of the Bourbon kings of France and the Bourbon Spanish Embassy at the top of the steps to the Holy See in the Palazzo Monaldeschi at the bottom of the steps. The stairway was designed by architects Francesco de Sanctis and Alessandro Specchi.Generations of heated debate over how the steep, 29-meter slope to the church on a shoulder of the Pincio should be urbanized preceded the final execution. Archival drawings from the 1580s show that Pope Gregory XIII was interested in constructing a stair to the recently completed façade of the French church.
French diplomat to the Holy See Etienne Gueffier died in 1660, leaving part of his fortune for the construction of the stairs. The Roman-educated Cardinal Mazarin took a personal interest in the project and entrusted it to his agent in Rome, whose plan included an equestrian monument of Louis XIV of France, an ambitious intrusion that created a furore in papal Rome. Mazarin died in 1661, the pope in 1667, while Gueffier's will was successfully contested by a nephew who claimed half; so the project lay dormant until Pope Clement XI Albani renewed interest in it in the early 18th century.
A competition was held in 1717, which was won by the obscure Francesco de Sanctis, though Alessandro Specchi was long thought to have produced the winning entry. Little is known of the architect, who was favored by the French in the design process. His drawing was engraved by Girolamo Rossi in 1726, with a long dedication to Louis XV.
The solution is a gigantic inflation of some conventions of terraced garden stairs. The first such divided and symmetrical stairs were devised for the Belvedere Courtyard in the 1600s by Donato Bramante, while shaped and angled steps were introduced by Michelangelo in the vestibule to the Laurentian Library. The Bourbon fleur-de-lys and Innocent XIII's eagle and crown are carefully balanced in the sculptural details.
Mid-18th century writers Joseph de Lalande and Charles de Brosses noted that the steps were already in poor condition. They have been restored several times since, including from May to December 1995. A new renovation commenced on October 8, 2015, and the steps reopened on September 21, 2016.
Steps built from the street level right into the store in Istanbul, Turkey
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Many steps can be found all over the island of Santorini. However, not all of them are as neat as these steps. This is what drew me to take this photograph.
Thank goodness for our plow guys who plow and shovel our walk and stairs— worth every penny! And bless my DD who keeps up with any snow that falls between their stops. Farther north of us they got 20+ inches, so we felt lucky.
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