Rome

Rome


August 2010





We landed at Rome's Fluminicio around 1pm, it was a scorching hot day and we had to make the short trip across country to Romes historic center, we hopped on the Terravision bus (amazing service, used quite a lot in my travels - http://www.terravision.eu/ ) and for 6 euros each return we set off, not much to say about the journey into Rome i must admit, it was mostly a motorway then through some suburbs till we got to our hotel, we had looked around online and decided we wanted to stay in a hotel over a hostel. We found this little beauty for a very modest price.

http://www.ghtiberio.com/en

That afternoon we set off.

We had our Lonely Planet guidebook from Amazon and decided to start by spending the day exploring the Vatican State, I and my partner were completely taken aback by how beautiful the place was, thriving with people a lot of different nationalities, all here to visit the heart of the catholic church, i am not religious at all but i had to admit to being blown away by the grandeur of it all. It's hard to put into words and as people say a picture speaks a thousand so...

Hope you guys enjoy the photos, all taken on my Nikon D5000.

Arrivederci!

Sunset in Florence

This photo was taken form Piazza Michelangelo, an amazing spot over looking the whole of the city of Florence. We found it from our guidebook which was the Lonely Planets guide to Florence and Tuscany, we used this book lots and lots throughout our stay. Florence was probably my favorite city in Italy, It's not too much hustle and bustle and remarkably it is surprisingly cheap.

First time using Photoshop in a while!

I have not used any kind of image editing software in a while, however i managed to get myself a copy of a very old Photoshop, so thought i would have a go at editing these, I have not done much to them but i think i have made these photos slightly better than the originals.

Before

After!

For a first timer, i'm happy.

New Lens!

Ive gone and done it......

This won the Europeopn Lens of the year last year, so im going to be trying this out over the next few weeks, im really interested in getting some wicked shots of the moon.

Here she is:

I'll be posting a few shots with it when ive got some that are worthy to be here.