Rome

Rome 2002 Gallery

March 29, 2009

From a trip I made with my father and his wife in autumn, 2002. I think all tourists should be required to carry red umbrellas in the rain – makes for great pictures against the gray stone of the Colosseum.

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Photo Gallery: OpenCamp, Rome, March 2008

March 13, 2008

I attended OpenCamp in Rome, which was held in a mostly recovered public space, the former slaughterhouses of Rome, parts of which are interestingly decorated with graffiti.

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barCamp Roma: January, 2007

January 30, 2007

The full gallery of photos from my attendance at barCamp in Rome.

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Roman Street Signs

December 3, 2006

During the Imaging in Italy course I attended in Rome in October, 2003, I was much taken with the ancient signage I found all over – both the lettering and the language were charmingly antique. Several were on the theme of “do not litter”, in this case “on pain of ten scudi (coins) each time”, [...]

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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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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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