photo sampling

[rm]

These are some shots from all over the trip in both time and space. They're vaguely representative of what you're going to get more of, but they aren't really my best shots so much as the first ones I thought to show you to give you a sense of the character of the whole thing.

Giaccomo the angry pony who lives at a papyrus farm in Siracusa.

A wedding in Comiso. (This is one of my favorite shots -- view a bigger one here).

Boys on bikes riding past a store that sells "Hot Doogs" in Catalgirone (their typo, no mine -- larger version).

One of two abandoned churches we found in Scicli. I became fascinated by the way the light shone through from the missing side windows to create crosses in the interior. That's my friend Eric kneeling as he tries to get a photo too. This day is a long story for later, as that place went from being fun to totally creeping me out and then we found a bone that may have been human....

Pigeon living in a wall in Noto.

Posters in Ragusa featuring the animal trainer from a circus coming to town.

A church in Modico as seen from a moving car. While this church is in the same baroque style as most of the builfings I photographed, the statues outside this one particularly moved me. There was something I found odd and unsettling about them, and they were a detail I hadn't seen anywhere else.

I think this was shot in Ispica, but I'm not sure. We were lost on our way to Noto.

I may hate that I was not made for the same clean lines as the men I fence with and my hair is a bitch, but I'm on top of a fotress built to defend against the Saracens!

Comments

[spiralflames.livejournal.com]

wonderful!! looking fwd to more!!

[dipping_sauce]

(Just FYI: For proper thumbnails, ones you don't have to resize with HTML, just replace the s320x320 or whatever at the end of the image URL with s100x100. It's just nicer to people on dial-up.)

I love the picture of the tree, but then I love pictures of trees :D

[rm.livejournal.com]

OH cool -- I had no idea. Thanks for the tip!

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

I love the pony! I look forward to hearing all your stories.

[hakeber.livejournal.com]

Wonderful photos! You'll have to fill us in on some of the back stories.

[wordkink.livejournal.com]

The wedding photo is gorgeous, but oh! The pigeon! Is there any way you'd be willing to upload a larger version of it? I have an unhealthy love of pigeons and would LOVE to be able to make an icon out of that photo. Would credit you, of course. Hee!

[pparis80.livejournal.com]

Much appreciated

[sykii.livejournal.com]

Giacomo the Angry Pony is adorable, and Moira Orfei is the best name ever. Fabulous shots.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I'm shooting at 8 megapixels, so I have a huge version of it. I'll put it on sendpsace or something for you, as gmail will puke on it.

[rm.livejournal.com]

It took us all week to figure out the deal with Moira Orfei. We saw the posters everywhere while driving, so we couldn't get a handle on what it was for a while.

We'd asked each other in hushed, horrified tones, "Do you think she's a singer?"

[wordkink.livejournal.com]

Oh, that would be wonderful, thank you!