October 2003

Imaging in Italy

October 31, 2003

I spent the week of October 12-18 in Rome, on Tony Boccaccio’s Imaging inItaly course, a wonderful, fun experience that I heartily recommend to anyone wishing to improve photography skills OR, even if you’re not an experienced photographer, if you want to do something completely different in Rome – and bring home some amazing photographs of your very own. [...]

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Imaging in Italy: A Photographic Walking Tour of Rome – Day 5

October 31, 2003

Friday morning we met to review everyone’s photographs; Tony had selected 50 each, and put them together in a presentation (he had spent a lot of time scanning from prints for those who had  been using non-digital cameras). We gasped in delight at each other’s pictures, and, as always, learned from Tony’s comments on them. [...]

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Imaging in Italy: A Photographic Walking Tour of Rome – Day 4.5

October 31, 2003

After a restorative coffee in Piazza Venezia, we walked past Trajan’s Column and Forum, gorgeous in the evening light: We ate (a lot!) at a nearby restaurant called Massenzio; a bit pricey, but excellent. The spaghetti with shrimp and pecorino di fossa (sheep’s milk cheese aged in caves) was amazing. And we hadporcini again. Then, to aid digestion, we walked [...]

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Imaging in Italy: A Photographic Walking Tour of Rome

October 31, 2003

Oct, 2006 : Tony got a review in the Guardian I spent the week of October 12-18 in Rome,on Tony Boccaccio’s Imaging in Italy course, a wonderful, fun experience that I heartily recommend to anyone wishing to improve photography skills OR, even if you’re not an experienced photographer, if you want to do something completely [...]

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Imaging in Italy: A Photographic Walking Tour of Rome – Day 2

October 31, 2003

Our first activity Tuesday morning was a review of Monday’s (digital) photos, with expert commentary and pointers from Tony. He went on to talk about other aspects of imaging, but I confess I wasn’t paying as much attention as I should, distracted by these fuzzy little Romans: After lunch (at an excellent, old-fashionedosteria, da Alfredo [...]

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Imaging in Italy: A Photographic Walking Tour of Rome – Day 4

October 31, 2003

Tony saved the best for last: on Thursday we went to the Colosseum and Forum. There was so much to photograph that we didn’t even do the full tour; we saw the Colosseum only from the outside (I’d been inside before), then went into the Forum. Plenty of architecture here: But also details: We descended from [...]

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Imaging in Italy: A Photographic Walking Tour of Rome (and Viterbo) – Day 3

October 31, 2003

On Wednesday we took a train to Viterbo, a town with some unusual Gothic architecture. The symbol of Viterbo is the lion, which you can find in various incarnations all over town. Evidently the town went through some rough times; some of these lions look awfully worried. Clovis Aquino, a painter who accompanied us on many of [...]

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How My Italian Adventure Began

October 27, 2003

Strangely enough, my Italian adventure began in India. In June, 1986, I finished up my study abroad year in Benares. It had been a fun but intense time, and I looked forward to a vacation in Mussoorie, my “home town,” site of Woodstock School. My dad was supposed to join me, having just finished a [...]

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How I Became an Italian Journalist

October 27, 2003

Soon after we moved to Italy in December, 1990, I read an article in Italia Publishers, a magazine about desktop publishing, in which the writer described his difficulties in finding a font for Hindi. Although he had never been to India, he had been studying the language in Milan for fun, and wanted to write [...]

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Boys Will Be Boys

October 25, 2003

Rome, October, 2003

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Italian School Schedules and Calendars

October 21, 2003

Rossella is in her first year at Liceo Artistico (art high school), and we’re all struggling to adjust to her new pace of education. We didn’t know that Artistico requires more hours in the classroom than probably any other school: 4 days @ 5 hours plus 2 days @ 7 hours equals 34 hours a [...]

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Italian Babies: Why So Few Are Being Born

October 7, 2003

“How to solve Europe’s pension crisis: Work longer, have more babies” cover of The Economist, Sept 27, 2003 – with a photo of a rather horrified (and rather Italian) -looking woman “Sheesh! What is wrong with you Italians?! You inherit one of the most beautiful cultures the world has ever seen and you jeopardize it [...]

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Other People’s Bookshelves

October 6, 2003

In the course of looking for a place to live in Lecco, we’ve seen the insides of many strangers’ homes, up for sale (for the moment we’ve ended up renting, but that’s another story). The décor was extremely variable. Many Italian homes run to a type I think of as “classic” Italian: heavy, dark wood [...]

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Trajan’s Forum by Night

October 1, 2003

taken during the Imaging in Italy course

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Photos of Rome’s Pantheon

October 1, 2003

Taken during the Imaging in Italy course.

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