In 2000, I took photos of roofscapes from every tower I could climb. We had them enlarged and mounted in a collage. This year it was doorknobs. Will be mounting them this weekend. For those interested http://homepage.mac.com/gavinc1/Doorknobs/PhotoAlbum103.html
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Posts: 893 | Location: Sydney, Australia | Registered: 20 January 2002
Your pics are fabulous, Gavin! I like the idea that each trip generates a different theme.
I tend to be a door and window person myself. I've blown up and framed what I consider the best ones. Lately, I find myself starting to photograph elderly people, with their permission. I love the character that's revealed in their faces.
Edna
Posts: 306 | Location: Irvington, New York | Registered: 28 July 2001
Fabulous collection Gavin! My favorite is the one from San Gimignano. Or that one like "the scream" - how would you like to come home to that image each day?
Wow Gavin those are amazing! I too pick themes, although I do seem to be fixated on those doorways and windows too, I'll have to widen my horizons this next trip. I also love to capture those wonderful Nonna's gossiping amongst themselves as well.
You have given me an idea though after seeing all those great doorknockers, I think this next trip I will make it my mission to try and find one at an antique market or shop for my own door at home. I would love to find that SCREAM one, might keep away those door to door salesman!!
Gavin, Great collection! I have to go along with the others and say that I, too, enjoy capturing the doorknobs, doorways and windows that have such character.
My two other tried and true themes are reflections - in water or windows or mirrors. (Venice is great for this theme!) And the little niche Madonnas found all over Italy. I choose a few of my favorites from each trip to make reprints of, and special friends and family get a photo-card instead of a traditional holiday card.
Colleen in California
Posts: 13678 | Location: The Beautiful San Francisco Bay Area | Registered: 06 August 2001
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Liz: I think this next trip I will make it my mission to try and find one at an antique market or shop for my own door at home.
We had the same idea. Found a wonderful lionshead knocker on a stall at the street markets in Urbino. Thought that being well away from the usual tourist area it would be well priced. Twas over 100 euros and weighed some 5kg, so would have sent our luggage allowance way over.
Posts: 893 | Location: Sydney, Australia | Registered: 20 January 2002
In Florence, I found beautiful brass door knockers (reasonably priced) at Cammilli, just down the street from the Duomo. Address: Borgo de' Greci, 31 rosso. The Hotel Bernini Palace is on the corner, on the same side of the street.
Colleen in California
Posts: 13678 | Location: The Beautiful San Francisco Bay Area | Registered: 06 August 2001
Thanks for reminding me of photo themes. Several years ago, I started "Great Dogs of Greece", then totally forgot to continue the series with "Great Dogs of France", "Great Dogs of Korea" (none, except in restaurants! , etc. But I did do some Great Dogs of Sorrento last week.
quote:Originally posted by doru: There is house on the Zattere near the Incurabili whose high gates are mirrored. Great spot for self photos and when the sun hits the gate.
Doru
Been there, done that, got the photo.
Colleen in California
Posts: 13678 | Location: The Beautiful San Francisco Bay Area | Registered: 06 August 2001
Thanks Gavin- I smiled throughout the whole collection. Although it's hard to choose a favorite I am partial to Isola San Guilio-the elegant hand. Thanks for sharing your beautiful collection. I took many photos of hanging laundry in interesting alleys but not enough for a "theme". You've inspired me for the next trip though! colleenk
Posts: 2640 | Location: Cambridge, MA | Registered: 18 August 2001
Ha--David got to use the "nice knockers" line before I had a chance! Love the photos, Gavin. Just like a few others here, I always seem to do doors and windows with flower boxes, though lately I've been trying to take shots through archways--I guess that was my most recent "theme," but I didn't do much with it!
Oh, and Joanne: I've decided that "GREAT DOGS OF SORRENTO!" will be my new all-purpose expression of surprise/amazement/frustration. Beats "Great balls of fire!" any day. Thanks! I am in a weird mood today, and that phrase just struck me as so perfect...
Ciao, Sonia
Posts: 131 | Location: Seattle, Washington | Registered: 28 February 2002
A few years ago in Florence, I loaded my 35mm camera with B&W film and stood on one of the bridges. My "theme" was to photograph only beautiful Italian girls on motorscooters - each photo to be a different girl.
Back to photo themes, here's one I've had in mind but haven't really followed through on. Men on tractors. In rural areas in Italy, France, and Germany, I have seen so many men on tractors that I wish I had photographed. Everything from a wonderfully jovial old frenchman with beret and pipe who came very close to running over our car on a small back road in Provence to another old man we saw riding around his orchard practically every day with his dog in his lap to one of the most astonishingly handsome men I've ever seen parking his grubby old tractor in the center of a small village.
This one isn't terribly good, but it's the only one I've taken with the digital camera. He's mowing a cemetery on Prince Edward Island.
Posts: 7443 | Location: Sacramento, CA | Registered: 18 June 2001
Men on Tractors, Chris? Do you have 'a thing' for plaid shirts, overalls and/or suspenders? One other photo theme I'm kind of embarrassed to admit to, but what the hey ... Cats. I take photos of cats when I travel. I love those Roman postcards with cats at some of the famous monuments and on statuary fragments, but haven't been lucky to catch any shots like that yet. re: Cats and Rome ... My friend Lisa and I were walking in the Borghese Gardens once, when an old woman asked us for money to help feed the cats. (There were around ten of them all eating their dinner from individual bowls, and they were obviously being well taken care of.) Lisa dug in her pocket and handed over a really large bill by accident, but the woman was so thrilled that she didn't have the heart to ask for it back!
Colleen in California
Posts: 13678 | Location: The Beautiful San Francisco Bay Area | Registered: 06 August 2001
I try to capture children at play when I travel. It can be difficult, since I often need to ask permission of Mama using a language I don't communicate well in. Here's a group of children playing in Campo San Polo, Venice. One little boy told me they were trying to dig up a stone. They were certainly determined!
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, etc. But I did do some Great Dogs of Sorrento last week.
(Isn't that a line from a Mel Brooks movie?) Thanks.
Love the photos, Gavin. Just like a few others here, I always seem to do doors and windows with flower boxes, though lately I've been trying to take shots through archways--I guess that was my most recent "theme," but I didn't do much with it!
