Showing posts with label Fujifilm X-T2. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fujifilm X-T2. Show all posts

Monday, April 17, 2017

The Amazing Colors of Burano, Venice

We are now 6 photographers living and playing in Lucca with our cameras! On Monday we traveled to Venice for 3 days from Lucca and had a blast photographing the beautiful land of water and color. The short boat trip to Burano from Venice was well worth our time, so much wonderful color!! I'm thinking Manomet might look better if we all colored our homes like this :-)
More photos of Venice will be posted when I go through them, I found it and Burano to be enchanting places.
The colors were enhanced by the late in the day light, we arrived here an hour or so before sunset, the best time to visit if you're going!

Color and more color!!




My friend Linda with her camera... 3 of us have the Fujifilm X-T2, which has proven to be a great camera.





Saturday, March 18, 2017

A Morning Walk Through Lucca

Yesterday I had the delightful pleasure of walking around Lucca with no design other than to see what was going on. Always wonderful happenings when walking in a town where everyone walks... being on the move with your feet creates it's own compelling energy. I love it!

These are the images I created from my rewarding walk in the morning for 2 and a half hours starting at 10:30am with the focus being on seeing and trying to make a good photograph. So lucky to be able to stroll out my front door and wander around town on a beautiful day with my new camera, the Fujifilm X-T2,  and my iPhone, but those will be posted later, maybe. Here are the mirrorless camera photographs (Fujifilm X-T2). I processed them in Adobe Lightroom playing with a new tonality I'm experimenting with, hope you like them.

Started the walk here, in the Piazza we live on. The view is always interesting and vibrant. The tables and umbrellas just went up yesterday, the warm season has begun!
The large structure behind the umbrella could use a facelift, any investors out there want to see what they can do with an old Palacio?

Everyday working people working. 

Live music under the old wall, on the way to Porta Elise.

A favorite view of mine... there are many :-)

A cool looking car for Andy, Ian's roommate and friend, to appreciate. 

Pasta!!

All kinds of fashion around, even little boys have it here in Italy.

Taking a child on a bike through an arch in the old wall. 
(You don't see that in Massachusetts!)

Spanking new notices put up as I walked by. 

Man bun. 

Such a sweet dog, very soft, too. 

Watering on the balcony in Piazza dell' Anfiteatro. 

Yes, everyone rides bicycles here. 

I love seeing the bicycles everywhere, adds to the charm of Lucca.

This last image was taken into Adobe Photoshop where I added a texture from Kerstin Frank, who is on Flickr, she generously provides free textures on her feed.  All the other images were only taken through Adobe Lightroom, both in the Adobe Creative Cloud version of these programs.


Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Back in Lucca, Italy!

Lucca continues to captivate me, this is my 4th time visiting this charming Tuscan walled town and each time my stay is longer. First time was for a week and I'm fortunate enough to be here with Joe for 6 weeks this time! Counting my blessings :-) 

I am now the proud owner of a Fujifilm X-T2 with an 18-135mm lens, I left my big Canon at home. Walking around Lucca is always delightful and we've been happily walking a lot, seeing beautiful sights around every corner!  Here are a few from our first days in town.

The main Cathedral in Lucca

 Someone I haven't met.

Bicycles are everywhere, cars are discouraged and a limited number are allowed inside the walls. 

A photographer at work! 



The famous walking wall surrounding Lucca seen here as the sun is setting.

Looks like an image from Joe's blog today! Ha, we were standing next to each other :-)

Vegan is mentioned many more times on menus!!

Another lovely shop: "Isola" 

 A before dinner aperitif....

Statue of Puccini