*** This Week Through Your Eyes 2024.11.30 ***

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The view from a restaurant toilet window in Montalcino. Two stitched images.

Another take on a "room with a view".

I must get down to that part of Tuscany.

Vigoleno

Last Sunday, visited a couple of places to add some material to my sprawling Romanesque project. First stop was the cathedral museum in Fidenza near Parma. I wanted to see the La Maestà mariana by Antelemi. The museum has in interesting Romanesque font, as well as a lot of Baroque art, which frankly does not do much for me. The Matroneo, the elevated part of the Cathedral where the women were once confined to, and which I particularly wanted to see was closed. So I quess I will visit again one day in the summer when they have more staff.

I wanted to visit Vigoleno again, as I was last there in the Summer, and it was a bit chaotic. These short days are good for blue hour photography too. Vigoleno is a hilltop village, built around a medieval castle. It has an interesting Romanesque Pieve.

It has been a while since I have used the 24PC on a tripod with the D850. I am still amazed at the amazing sharpness of this lens. All the museum shots were made with the 28-400 "superzoom", which I still find surprisingly good.

La Maestà mariana, and the Cathedral museum, Fidenza

Chasuble, that it took forty years to embroider.

Vigoleno

project: Abandoned

Some examples of abandoned dwellings I came across while touring Georgian Bay, Ontario, Canada this summer. I always wonder - why, what happened?!

Amazing view. Very captivating.

We came across this waterfall while walking around Ji Chang Garden, Wuxi, China

Just incredible, the details you show us.

My fave. Outstanding. Take day off. Hit the pub, cantina. Whatever.

Break

This summer I happened to see young breaker's training/demo. Flashback to 80-ies...

Your eyes just go for the water. Amazing drawing power.

You have to be in shape. Excellent.

An amazing lens will amaze, I guess.

I thought the first was an arty shot of the back of a king with a crown and a shawl and was disappointed to realise otherwise. Actually, what is that?

That chasuble is extraordinary and a new word on me.

I like that wacky wall corner.

My fav is the one above although it drives the eyes a little crazy because the building on the left has tilting horizontals whereas the others are level. It's a superb shot.

Me too. I can think of a lot of worse places to live.
Enjoyed these.

Exploring

Since taking possession of our new home just outside the Lake District National Park in mid-October, we hadn't seen a glimpse of the view from the house due to the unremitting gloomy weather. Until this week.

The sky cleared and the temperature dropped. Wednesday brought a beautiful clear dawn, with frost and a spectacular view from the house. The distant fells of the Lake District can be made out on the horizon, the leftmost high point being The Old Man Of Conniston

Earth Shadow

As the sun began to rise a beautiful Belt of Venus formed over the hill on the opposite side of the valley (Whitbarrow Scar). The purple band close to the horizon as you stand with your back to the rising sun, is the shadow of the earth.

Taking a walk as respite from trips to the recycling centre, we discovered a local wetland, Park Moss, with a bird hide overlooking the water.

There are many beautiful old stone field gateposts around, this one overlooking the 'moss' next to the wetland

I have often discovered amazing views through 'uncelebrated' windows - this is a great example.

What a view. When the sky meets the land and water. Amazing colours.

Very nice street (?square) scene. The romanesque sculptures are wonderful, as ever, especially the wall corner and the capital with its two tailed melusine. You should make a composite image of the many melusines you have shared over the years.

These are very evocative especially the last with its whisps of foreground grass.