Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: cjogo on November 22, 2013, 03:40:31 am
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FUJI Reala days -- An Italian Isle
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Burano?
Rob C
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The film's okay.
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Yes Burano --- It was testing back in the 90's > on a trip ...
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Yes Burano --- It was testing back in the 90's > on a trip ...
Oh shit! I just noticed the caption strip!
Boo hoo Burano! Now I feel an ass. Well, not literally, of course, but I stil live in hope.
Sorry for the idiot question.
Rob C
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Nice island to visit for a few hours -- wish I would had had a zoom :(
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Nice island to visit for a few hours -- wish I would had had a zoom :(
I don't want the zoom, but I do wish that Mallorca offered a bit more colour.
Just about everything is painted white or marfil arenal, as sort of weakish sandy-yellow colour. Some brave but misguided souls have been known to paint entire apartment blocks dark green or even red, but in solitude, they just stand out as urban horror. Boats are always white, and there's more glass fibre than wood.
In the old town of Pollensa, a few klicks up the road from the Port of Pollensa, there's a small road that leads up the Calvario hill, and on it there's an old house (almost a ruin) bought over by a 'foreigner' who has painted the rough stone/mortar exterior a sort of weak ochre, and the tiny window surrounds in pale blue. Against all the white or dirty white of the neighbours, it looks singularly attractive. I remember standing opposite it with a tripod, quite captivated, and speaking to a passing lady about it. She countered my positive comments by declaring that he should never have been allowed to ruin the neighbourhood! Go figure.
Maybe that's why Italy has designer overload and Mallorca not.
Rob C
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I seem to find more colorful towns in Central America -- Mexico ---
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I have about 20 + images from the little jaunt over to the Isle -- will have to keep searching back into the archives ;)