Italy Within The Frame – Day 9 – Burano
Burano is a small island on the outer reaches of the Venetian Archipelago that few people bother to visit. The nearer and more famous island of Murano with its tradition of glass blowing and the manufacture of its distinctive colored glass objects d’arts, seems to be more of a magnet for the tides of tourists [...]
Italy Within The Frame-Day 8-Venice
Venice is a city in trouble. Few of us will have failed to read over the years the stories that Venice is sinking. This once grand trading city state, that dominated merchant trading for centuries, and yet has manged to retain much of its medieval and renaissance character today, is fighting a losing battle against [...]
Italy Within The Frame – Day 7 – To Venice by Train
Crossing Italy by train today as we move from Camogli to Venice has given me the chance to catch up on a preliminary sort of the nearly 5000 images I took last week. It is odd to review a body of work taken over such a short period of time and to begin to see [...]
Italy Within the Frame – Day 6 – Portofino
The Italian Riviera has for years been a playground for the rich and famous. The once quiet fishing villages where time and modern convenience had for so long passed by without the most casual of glances, have been transformed into chic resorts, full of designer boutiques, restaurants and bars advertising or sponsored by a leading [...]
Italy Within The Frame – Day 5 – San Fruttuoso
There is something magical about arriving at a new place by boat. I am not sure whether it is the stirring of an evocative past of transatlantic steamers voyaging to the New World or the throwback to family holidays where the ferry – however rusty and battered – magically transported us from reality to vacation [...]
Italy Within The Frame- Day 4 -Camogli
As we left Monterosso for Camogli this morning it seemed that we were leaving behind a landscape of opportunity, color and precariously perched towns that seemed to be just a momentary lapse away from sliding into the rocky Ligurian coastline. How wrong can you be – well about the color and opportunity at least! As [...]
Italy within The Frame – Day 3 – Manarola and Vernazza
Day 3 of our Italy Within The Frame with David duChemin and Jeffrey Chapman began at our now customary leisurely pace, with a short train ride through the tunnels and along the dramatic Cinque Terre coastline, to the second of the Cinque Terre towns that we were visiting, Manarola. The tiny train station sandwiched precariously [...]
Italy Within The Frame – Day 2 Monterosso
We are using the quaint seaside Cinque Terre town of Monterossa al mare as a base for the next couple of days as we explore the beautiful National Heritage coastline, of Liguria. Inevitably the weight of expectation is beginning to impact most of us. The frustration of being drawn to something initially appealing, but then [...]
Italy within the Frame – Day minus 1
The months of waiting for the chance to spend a week in Italy, immersed in exploring my own personal photographic vision “within the frame”, have finished and we are now in Genova, with David duChemin and Jeffrey Chapman. This morning – before the main group arrived – I went out with Jeffrey Fielding to wander [...]
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