Fornovo

[Orio]

Some photos I took for a documentation project.
Village of Fornovo Val di Taro, on the river Taro valley, at the foot of parmesan Apennines.
Efke 50 film, Gradual ST developer, Contax G camera with various lenses (Biogon 2.8/21, Biogon 2.8/28, Planar 2/45, Sonnar 2.8/90).
Reflecta Pro 7200 scanner with Silverfast SE Plus software.

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[patrickh]

Magnificent Orio. If it was paid work, they got it cheaply!


patrickh

[skida]

Those are some of the best B&W landscape and architecture shots I have seen, especially no. 1. In no. 7 has the central character been using Veet on his man-parts?

[kds315*]

Wonderful bw work Orio!

[Orio]

Thanks much guys for the kind words!

@Patrick: unfortunately not paid, it's a personal project.
@ skida: the guy you mention is Satan, so I would not ask him directly

A quick note about the church, because it deserves attention: it is very old, the oldest in the province of Parma (it's existence is first documented in year 854)
and it was built on the foundations of a Roman temple dedicated to Mercury (god of travels and communications).
It is certainly not casually that the so called Via Francigena, which linked Rome to the north of Europe and was one of the three most important
pilgrimage roads of the Middle Ages (the other two being the roads to Santiago de Compostela and to Jerusalem), passed next to this church.
Each of these three roads had a symbol that acted as road signal: the shell for Santiago de Compostela, the palm for Jerusalem, and the keys for Rome.
You can see, in my photo #6, the keys hanging from the belt of the pilgrim. The direction the statue of the pilgrim is oriented to, indicates the road to Rome.
Amazing eh?

[maxcastle]

no 9 is a great picture in my opinion.

[rrkradio]

Orio,
i am really impressed. The quality is very high. I can imagine how good is the real b/w negative. Have you tried your scanner with Vuescan?

I visited some years ago the old church and it really deserves attention .... not only for us (italian guys) but for everyone. Well done.

Roby

[Orio]

Thanks Maxcastle and Rkkradio