Italy

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 🙂

Post processed with: Luminar, Photoshop

• 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?

Post processed with: Luminar, Photoshop

• 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

In the backyard of the winery I looked around and saw that really old olive tree. I liked his branches and the jagged trunk, nobody there knew how old it was, but for sure older than the buildings, because they were built around this tree.

• Camera: COOLPIX A
• Aperture: ƒ/22
• Shutter speed: 1/160s
• Focal length: 18.5mm
• ISO: 320

Modica is an incredible fascinating city in Sicily, dozens of churches, hills overcrowded with Italian houses, great food and typical Italian architecture. I walked from Espresso to Espresso, and got faster and faster with my exploration and shooting photos.  🙂  Weather was not the best, only cloudy, but for my body better than the heating sun …

• Camera: COOLPIX A
• Aperture: ƒ/7.1
• Shutter speed: 1/1000s
• Focal length: 18.5mm
• ISO: 320

Tomorrow I am heading to Oktoberfest in Munich. My lederhose is already packed 🙂 Since this year are more security controls where no backpacks and bigger bags are allowed, I have chosen to take my Nikon Coolpix A with me, nice photo quality and small size  🙂

2016-09-16 NEAR TRIESTE

Walking around in the wonderful backyards of castle Miramare is really relaxing, you get some nice shadows of big trees to hide from the hot sun. Many statues with artfully sculptures strayed in the gardens give unique impressions.