*** This Week Through Your Eyes 2023.05.06 ***

Hope he finds a way out :-)

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A cliff walk in the Algarve, Portugal

Excellent, all of them. The coastal shots are the best!

I visited Pamukkale anbout 30 years ago. Really enjoyed it but the photos I made at that time were nowhere near as good as your one here :-)
Shame it has become so touristy

Another very nice shot :-)

Until recently Reggio Emilia's most interesting monument was strictly off limits for photography. It was also badly lit and the frescoes had darkened with age. The Ghiara is a late Renaissance basilica constructed at the beginning of the seventeenth century, to celebrate a miracle. The recent restoration of the frescoes and the well thought out illumination, now makes it easy to enjoy the artwork, a riot of colour and golden decoration. It is on of Emilia's most important Renaissance monuments.

Apart from a Guercino, the artwork and frescoes are by minor Emilian artists. The artwork is at a junction between the Renaissance and Baroque, reflecting the directives of the Council of Trent, aimed at contrasting the Protestant reformation. The aim of the dramatic decoration was to amaze and create strong emotions with the viewer, to keep the flock faithful to the Roman Catholic church.

All the pictures in this set were hand held, relying on the superb image stabilization of my Nikon Z7 that gave me almost "noiseless" high definition pictures even at the high ISO I was forced to use.

This needs to be seen large. I like the receding planes in this curious shot of some awful architecture.

This is the most successful shot in this series, I like the expression on the girls face.

Thanks for an interesting look at this place I had never heard of. I always enjoy your travelogues and thought provoking comment.

You tale is much like my experience in places I have visited in Italy. Thirty years ago in the Cinque Terre, I photographed kids playing football in the deserted main street. Now these villages are some sort of hell on earth for most of the year, thanks to Social Media driven over-tourism. But in every location you can almost always find some little gem that is not mentioned much on the WWW.

The colours and the dramatic sea are very inviting. Thanks for a taste of summer that is arriving here too now.

[quote="@Fireplace33"]

Great set all the way around, but I especially like the cliff shots.

Ha! Good title.

Still a fabulous set, despite the demise of the place. This last shot is a lovely scene.

A spectacularly beautiful set with bonus points for fishing shots. This is my pic, amazing surf.

Excellent series. Beautiful location. These two stand out for me.

That was my big lightbulb moment the first time I visited Rome. It's one thing to read about the Baroque in an art history text, but when I actually visited Rome my initial thought was that it was all a big effort to keep the Catholics in the fold.

Love these handheld shots you are getting with the Z7. I have been flirting with a number of systems for a good while now, and I am thinking I will likely settle down with a single system, likely Nikon, by the end of the year. Although I love autofocus of the Sony for dog photos, I wasn't wasn't in love with it for travel.

Moorland edge

That does look interesting.

[quote="@Fireplace33"]
A cliff walk in the Algarve, Portugal
While it was cold and wet in Austria, we were lucky enough to have booked a week in Portugal. Lovely weather for hiking, 26°C warm and sunny.
Here a few shots, from just one walk, along the cliffs. At this time of year the flowers are blooming everywhere and the grass is lush & green.

These two are nice.

I remember being impressed with the way the men were fishing right off the towering cliffs into the raging sea below. Quite a sight.

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The aim of the dramatic decoration was to amaze and create strong emotions with the viewer, to keep the flock faithful to the Roman Catholic church.

The contrasting light makes this one very dramatic.

I am suitably amazed.