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This week's prompt is "overhead."
You're encouraged to describe your photo--where you shot it, details of what you were doing or what was going on, etc.
While walking in Rome my daughter passed this sign and then turned around with an astonished look on her face to read it again. We had a good laugh. She looked so funny!
Since I am fairly short (61 inches), almost everything is overhead for me. I therefore had a lot to chose from. Decided on this one taken at the Uffizi in Florence last October. I loved this angle. BJinNM
I'm assuming that there will never be a photohunt entitled "Agile Octogenarians." Overhead here is our neighbor tending his vines in the Fall behind our apartment along Borgo Ognissanti in Florence a few years ago.
These photohunts get you to look at old pictures with new eyes.
Posts: 295 | Location: Connecticut, USA | Registered: 02 March 2003
Since I am also vertically challenged, there is no question that these geraniums were growing over my head on the balcony of the courtyard of our Rome B&B last summer:
We call it "our tower" because it's just next to our property (500 meters from our house), but actually it's the medieval tower of our little village, Merana, on the border of Piedmont and Liguria.
From the top of the tower you have an endless view on the surrounding hills.
They promised us the key to this tower when we open our agriturismo, so our guests will be able to enter this piece of history by themselves and I can imagine it must be great to have a picknick on top of if. Can't wait to try this out myself
Enjoying wine on the terrace of our rental (Castello delle Serre) in the village Serre di Rapalono (south of Siena, Italy) watching the clouds and listening to the bell tower. May 2007
The first photo that comes to my mind with the theme "Overhead" is this one. Taken in September, 2007, as I lay on my back in a field after hiking up to a spot called Alpe Campra, above Valle Vigezzo in Northern Piemonte. I had to take a photo overhead as I lay there, of the most perfect blue sky I had ever seen.
This picture was taken in early April, 2008, in the Public Garden of Caltagirone, Sicily. The bandstand is decorated in tiles of many different patterns with ceramic animals on the octagonal roof edge below the dome and on top of the dome.
In Alberobella, looking out over the roof tops that are overhead for the people in the streets below.
Deborah Horn In a previous life I was an Umbrian sunflower farmer. I want to do a past life regression and stay there. ----------------------------------- www.petsburg.com My blog: Old Shoes - New Trip
Posts: 5590 | Location: St. Louis, MO | Registered: 04 September 2001
This is my first "Photohunt" submission! On a crisp February evening in Florence we looked up and saw this perfect crescent moon against a beautiful midnight blue sky.
Walking along the Arno, this surprising cluster of wisteria, wrapped around an old shield on the center of a bridge was the very first wisteria I've ever seen. I will always remember this scene, because it made me fall madly in love with wisteria, forever and ever.
Wisteria by Philip Levine "The first purple wisteria I recall from boyhood hung on a wire outside the windows of the breakfast room next door." Brenda
Paul, welcome to Slow Travel! Please note we had to resize your photos. The maximum permitted file size is 500 KB. This one was reduced to 479 KB. I will resize the one from Lucca too, but please note the requirement for future reference!
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Ahhh, so hard to choose only one!! I spent many an hour sitting in the Loggia last October enjoying the sculptures, watching the people mill about the piazza, and looking up at the Palazzo Vecchio. This photo brings back memories of the beauty of Florence, and the joys of my incredible solo journey (my first but hopefully not last!)
No picture (double dog dang it) but a great story:
I was visiting Nancy Lytle (mindzye - and I still miss her) in Florence when she had an apartment that had been part of a convent.
Her bedroom had this incredible frescoes, angels, the blessed virgin and child Jesus, just gorgeous by some "minor" renaissance artist. I kept going back and looking at them. They were really spectacular. I came back out to the living room and said "Nancy, those frescoes are absolutely fabulous". To which she replied:
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