Made in Sud #1 Canvas Print

We walked in the neighborhood of nine miles a day, and we finished the last day with twelve miles. These were not strolls through the village of Rome stopping to smell the poppies or bougainvillea. We had places to get to, Latin to read at those places, and a few touristy things to see here and there. We started the day at the Roman Forum, left the Forum for lunch at Made in Sud in a neighborhood, returned to visit the Palatine Hill, read Latin in the shade inside the short walls of an ancient house, and visited with St. Paul & St. Peter at the Mamertine Prison. Demands were made for espresso & gelato before we walked over near the Colosseum to read more Latin in the late afternoon under the looming height of the Colosseum in one direction, and Arch of Constantine in the other. After Latin was finished sitting on big stones under a short wall we walked on past the Colosseum like it was a MacDonalds. It could never be ordinary but on that day it was just there. We did take some time to...

My subjects are both natural and architectural. I am interested in textures and shapes and how light and shadow play on those objects often creating new ones. I use a Nikon D-800, and an iPhone 10s Max. I make every effort to compose in the camera and thus I crop infrequently. I use Lightroom, Photoshop & NIK to work with highlights & shadows which often brings out the elements in a photograph for which I have primary interest. I have no hesitation using any other tool if the results make the photograph work. My preference is to do nothing to a photograph presenting it as it was taken. My web site is named light & shadows because both light and shadows are the visual elements that hold the most fascination for me. If time and space...