I thought I would take a walk down memory lane and show a few of my lesser-known pictures from inside Italian churches. The colors and glows that come through usually come out quite nice in HDR. Actually, I think it is very hard to go back to shooting churches without HDR because it just doesn’t do them justice without it.

Giant caves were carved into the sea-wall. You can see how huge they are by that tiny-sized Italian man in his Euro-suit.

My hotel room in Naples faced out across the bay of Napoli and Mount Vesuvius, where I could see the sunrise each morning. I always kept my camera charged up just in case there was one of these mornings, and fortunately, there always was. I can’t believe my friend Valerio (Valpopando) actually lives there and gets to see this all the time. I hope he appreciates it!

This reminds me of my Velerio’s dad in Naples who has the exact same picture, but from about 40 years ago. He has a ton of great pictures in his stream… It’s also interesting to see how he has embraced HDR.

This was shot in Naples in the early morning before all the fog had time to burn off the Bay of Napoli. The volcano in the background is Mount Vesuvius.

When I was in Italy I passed this cool outdoor cafe so I decided to grab a shot. The light was very good with the setting sun plus the warm oranges of the lights around the cafe itself.

Here is a cool castle from Naples where they still carry on city court activity.

Here is an old fishing shed I found on the beach of Naples very early in the morning.

Here is yet another amazing sculpture in a church in Italy. The second picture links to the set on Flickr of all my Italian churches.

This is some strange modern art, which I normally despise because of the people that sit there and talk for 30 minutes about its existential meaning. However, I still thought this one was kind of neat.

Here is a variety of pictures I recently processed from Italy. These are from all over: Rome, Milan, Milan, and Naples, in that order.

I’m not so good in my Tolkienesque vocab, but I think that is what they were called.

Here is an older shot taken around the coast of Napoli where the water was exceptionally clear.

This is one of my favorite pictures of Naples in Italy. There is a marina down by the castle that overlooks Vesuvius and Pompeii. I took this one very early in the morning, just after the sun rose over the dormant volcano.

It didn’t seem to matter exactly where you were in Italy. You’re always surrounded by amazing architecture.

Here are two shots of Naples. I usually don’t do much black and white but I like this one.