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Posted: 06 May 2014

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At the Vittorio Emanuele II memorial in Rome

At the Vittorio Emanuele II memorial in Rome
If I find time over the next few weeks, I'll post more pictures frommy three-week trip to Northern Italy. I carried my Fujifilm X100 digital camera (from which came this picture) and my Olympus Pen D3 half-frame camera which I loaded with Tri-X film. I've got about 200 frames to develop on the Tri-X; I took over 4500 (!!) in the X100. That's photographic grab-shot overkill, I know. :)

This picture was at the Vittorio Emanuele II memorial in Rome two mornings ago and it may have been the only shot I got where the Italian flag is clearly visible. Although it rained almost every day
in late April and early May, at least wherever we were, the wind was not usually high enough even to unfurl flags.

Being such a stick-in-the-mud film guy, I did not foresee an advantage to shooting digital on a trip like this one: EXIF data. I kept a small pencil&paper notebook and the EXIF date/time stamping helps tell me what my thousands of pictures are. Duhhh. Who'd a-knowed?
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 Justfolk
Justfolk club
We loved it all, and I especially loved Rome. One day we will come back to hang around in the city. We spent three days in mid-April in Milan. I had no expectations of it (I knew nothing about Milan); I also loved that city. Very different from Rome!
10 years ago.
 Justfolk
Justfolk club
I was told this was known as the Wedding Cake, too. Is that just tourist talk, or do Romans also use that name?

The view from atop the building is breath-taking.
10 years ago.
 Justfolk
Justfolk club
I spent most of one morning at the Coliseum and Palatine Hill. Very impressive. And moving, too. Except for a short visit in a restaurant in an underground vaulted cave, I never got the chance to see any of the Roman underground. Next trip!

I will look for those movies.
10 years ago.
 Justfolk
Justfolk club
Living in a place where Europeans have lived steadily only for just over 500 years (and once before that 1000 years ago), I am very impressed with the the very old stuff that you have in your country! The early Christian stuff is pretty impressive in itself, but when Mithraic temples are also viewable, I am astounded.
10 years ago.
 Justfolk
Justfolk club
Yes, I can see what you mean.
10 years ago.

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