Certosa di Pavia
I have been taking bit of a rest from photography of late. But this week I decided it was time for a photographic expedition to Pavia, a city rich in Romanesque architecture. But whilst the sites I wanted to visit were closed for lunch, I ventured out to the Certosa di Pavia, a huge monumental complex just outside of Pavia.
The Certosa di Pavia is a monastery complex in Lombardy, Northern Italy, situated near a small village of the same name in the Province of Pavia, 8 km (5.0 mi) north of Pavia. Built from 1396 to 1495, it was once located at the end of the Visconti Park a large hunting park and pleasure ground belonging to the Visconti dukes of Milan. It is one of the largest monasteries in Italy. Certosa is the Italian translation of Charterhouse: a monastery of the cloistered monastic order of Carthusians founded by St. Bruno in 1044 at Grande Chartreuse. The architecture is in the Renaissance style, with hints of Gothic. It was built to impress, and impress it certainly does. I really liked the semi detached Monks villas out on the large Cloister.
Here tripods are out of the question, so I just used my Z8 with the 14-35 and 28-200 hand held. The Z8 is proving to be a great camera, IBIS is better than the Z7 . Also hand held HDR sets align perfectly in Capture One.