La Scarzuola, Italy
I’ve been looking forward to today’s field trip, but Chris has been threatening to give an assignment I will hate. Sitting at my computer writing and editing photos in the lull between breakfast and when Read More …
Category: Tuscany and Umbria
Just wandering in Orvieto
Of course, there is a lot to see outside the shops. Chris greets us from the top of the clock tour. (I love the fact that Orvieto is big enough to be interesting, but small Read More …
Orvieto, Italy, from above
The Torre del Moro clock tower is visible just about everywhere. (Unless, of course, one needs to know what time it is, in which case it somehow remains well hidden behind the buildings crouching around Read More …
Back to the day’s assignment in Orvieto, Italy
Today’s assignment was to find a scene with a “frame” and then capture it as people move through – basically the same thing I failed at during my impromptu lesson with Richard the other day. Read More …
Cleaning Day in a Magical, Mysterious Place
We gather to start on our assignments in the plaza outside the church I’d been eying earlier in the day. (Or at least, what I think is a church – it doesn’t really look like Read More …
Searching for a Location
We have an assignment, but are in need of good locations for shooting, so we wander around (rather aimlessly) for awhile. Along the way we come to an interesting-looking church. Obviously the Church of San Read More …
Road trip to an Italian city in the sky
We are on a road trip to the city of Civita di Bagnoregio, an ancient hill town (it was once an important Etruscan city) that nearly floats above the eroded valley below, tethered to the Read More …
The Duomo in Orvieto, Italy
One of today’s assignments is to shoot Orvieto’s over-the-top cathedral church in ways that are more interesting than the usual postcard images. We’re also supposed to be incorporating people into our shots. . . Fall Read More …