Holiday in central Italy

[Aanything]

1- W-Nikkor.C 2.5/35


2- W-Nikkor.C 2.5/35


3- Nikkor 24/2.8 AI-s


4 & 5- The Bookbinders
W-Nikkor.C 2.5/35


6- The Notary
W-Nikkor.C 2.5/35


7- Toymakers
Schneider Kreuznach SL Xenon 1.8/50


8- The Coppersmith
Schneider Kreuznach SL Xenon 1.8/50


9- A wide view of the Orcia river Valley, with the typical sweet hills of this area. The town in the top right is Pienza.
W-Nikkor.C 2.5/35


10- Pienza again
Meyer Optik Gorlitz Telemegor 5.5/180, heavily PP'ed with Color Efex Pro


11- A typical Versilia sight: the long wide beach with facilities, and the Alpi Apuane marble mountains on the background, and that little bit of decadence.
W-Nikkor.C 2.5/35


12- Same spot, opposite direction: the Tyrrhenian sea

[Aanything]

There's something strange, if I try to add a description at the beginning, the post comes out empty: I don't know if I'm doing something wrong, however, I'll post some info here:

Images from 1 to 8 are taken in Città della Pieve, a beautiful little town on the hills between Toscana and Umbria regions, in the Perugia province. The night pictures (4 to 8) are taken during the Palio dei Terzieri, a ten days period in which the city reenacts the old medieval times with every sort of events, from reconstruction of markets to competitions between its three main districts - the Terzieri.

[Gurdie]

Great series! I love the toymaker and coppersmith pics!

[Aanything]

[Teo]

I noticed that I can't upload an avatar in my profile , it seems that there are some things not working well .
But , coming back on topic : I like very much this series ...apart the last two pics , the images are timeless , they remember me the pictures of the Italian painters .A pleasure to look at . Great job !

[bhargav]

I really like #2, 10 and the people shots. Such a beautiful place.

[kds315*]

Very well done using a nicely sharp lens (that I also have and like)!

[Nordentro]

Wow, it looks like from a movie...

Fantastic lens, I like it too

[Aanything]

Sorry, I didn't see the answers to the topic.
Thanks everybody for the kind words: the atmosphere was great in città della pieve, but merit for that goes to the passion and effort the citizens put into keeping alive these traditions.
The little nikkor is excellent, is the lens I'd choose to keep if I had to save only one (I recently bought also the nikonos 2.5/35, which should be basically the same lens in a different housing), and the xenon too made a very good impression to me: it has a great cinematic look, it's sharp from wide open and I like the bokeh too.