Italy

The walk between Corniglia and Monterosso, hot, stony, dusty, steep, great views, heart rate 140 (according my iWatch), if you are there, I can recommend to do it. 🙂  The walk lasted about 4 hours, we arrived at about 4 pm in Monterosso, where we saw a fountain with fresh water at the village square, the first step for cooling off. Then we entered the beach and took a longer bathe in the mediterranean sea, the second phase for cooling off. 🙂 In the evening for dinner, we got fried calamari, an Italian specialty.

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• Camera: ILCE-7S
• Aperture: ƒ/22
• Shutter speed: 1/80s
• Focal length: 14mm
• ISO: 250

At this nightly stroll, I didn’t had a tripod with me. The handrail of this bridge in Verona helped out, I could place my camera exactly in the desired position and was ready to shoot. My wife Karin was happy; she needn’t wait until the tripod would be prepared, adjusted, oriented and so on. Those little helpers could also be tables, park banks, sockets – all ready to be taken for shake free shots.

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• Camera: ILCE-7RM2
• Aperture: ƒ/5.6
• Shutter speed: 1/1.3s
• Focal length: 36mm
• ISO: 250

To feel more like an Italian 🙂 , my wife and me rented two motor scooters in Verona. It’s the traditional Italian means of transportation in cities, you can go forward fast, see very much and the driving wind gives a cooler breeze. During our explanation tour, we stopped at that fantastic bridge Ponte Scaligero over the Adige, where I did that wide angle shot.

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• Camera: ILCE-7S
• Aperture: ƒ/20
• Shutter speed: 1/20s
• Focal length: 14mm
• ISO: 100

The three-island-hopping started with Murano, then Torcello and ended with Burano. That is this little fisherman’s village which is world-renowned, because of the colorful, neat houses built at the canals. We had 50 minutes to explore the city. Before leaving, on the railing of the boat, I did that last shot which shows Burano at twilight. It also signaled the end of a day, where I walked endless miles with my photo bag.  🙂

Post processed with: Luminar, Photoshop

• Camera: ILCE-7RM2
• Aperture: ƒ/4
• Shutter speed: 1/6s
• Focal length: 31mm
• ISO: 6400

To get a photo like this, you only have a few options. Get on top of a hotel roof, climb an observation tower or start a drone and get an aerial photo. The drone is risky without permission; the observation tower was not existent, then I got with the hotel elevator on the top floor and placed my tripod between the deck chairs, prepared for the bathers of the hotel pool. A bit effort is required to get the shots you want 🙂

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• Camera: LEICA X VARIO (Typ 107)
• Aperture: ƒ/8
• Shutter speed: 1/400s
• Focal length: 46mm
• ISO: 100

This female pizza cook helped with garnishing and baking the pizzas, selling the slices in the store and cashier the money. A labor division which makes the job more varied, which keeps the motivation higher. Especially the pizza tasted superb, smooth and crisp pizza dough, great tomato sauce, mushrooms and artichokes with mozzarella cheese. And the smell …  🙂

Post processed with: Lightroom, Photoshop

• Camera: ILCE-7R
• Aperture: ƒ/4
• Shutter speed: 1/100s
• Focal length: 93mm
• ISO: 1250

Grado is this lovely city in northern Italy, located on a peninsula. There is favorable climate nearly the whole year, and always some activities on the beach, as here in the photo, with this old man gathering shells. I did the same as I was a kid, but maybe if you grow older, you get back to some habits of your childhood. 🙂 Or does he collect the shells for his niece and nephew?

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• Camera: LEICA X VARIO (Typ 107)
• Aperture: ƒ/6.4
• Shutter speed: 1/2000s
• Focal length: 46mm
• ISO: 1000

A big, beautiful park surrounds Castle Miramare near Trieste, with lovely green areas, sculpted trees, little bridges, viaducts and those statues, this is the Italian style. The harmony of that field is a great design work and it reminds you of times where kings and queens have governed Europe.

Post processed with: Photomatix, Photoshop

• Camera: LEICA X VARIO (Typ 107)
• Aperture: ƒ/6.4
• Shutter speed: 1/320s
• Focal length: 46mm
• ISO: 100

Life on the streets, nowhere it’s so intense and cultural as in Italy, this great country with the finest architecture of the world. Trieste, this town at the northern Adriatic Sea, is the perfect place to immerge into Italian street life. … and you can get an espresso at any corner. By the way, Trieste is home of Illy coffee roasting house.

• Camera: LEICA X VARIO (Typ 107)
• Aperture: ƒ/5.6
• Shutter speed: 1/500s
• Focal length: 18mm
• ISO: 100

The nice town of Grado lies on a peninsula and is surrounded by the Adriatic sea. From some points, as here on the roof of a hotel, you can see the tails of the alps on the horizon. It’s a very relaxed atmosphere and a recommendation if you like to take some days off.

• Camera: LEICA X VARIO (Typ 107)
• Aperture: ƒ/8
• Shutter speed: 1/320s
• Focal length: 46mm
• ISO: 100