All Roads Lead to Rome

[tjp490]

The Italians call it La Citta' Eterna - the Eternal City. It's been said that all roads lead there, and that it wasn't built in a day. Fiddling while it burns is not advised - if guilty of such an act they'll tear down your golden house, drain your artifical lake to build a huge ampitheater, and erase almost any evidence that you existed (way to go Nero!). It's Rome.
My absolute favorite shot from the trip. It's actually two exposures combined. This one will be a poster on my wall shortly.

The Colosseum in B&W - we had a beautiful day when we visited.

The Pantheon is the oldest best preserved building from ancient Rome.

Inside the Pantheon in B&W. You can't see the thousands of people who were inside with us while I was taking this shot.

More to come tomorrow.
Thanks for looking.

[TLS]

These are some outstanding pictures. The black and white make them look old. Thanks for sharing

[Fred flyfisher]

Wow, I love these... I have never been to europe much less Rome but I loved to see these. That first one is just amazing! Great work.

[save_alkaline]

those are all fantastic! but i agree, that 1st shot of the coliseum is really great! can i ask how you took it?

[fstopMike]

Beautiful shots! Love the first one. You would be well served with putting that one on the wall.

[praline3001]

I love the colors in the first one but I like the old world feel in the second shot ~ very nicely done. I can't wait to see more!

[tjp490]

Originally Posted by save_alkaline

those are all fantastic! but i agree, that 1st shot of the coliseum is really great! can i ask how you took it?

So I took this without a tripod - thank goodness for image stabilized lenses. I was right up against a wall leaning as far back as I could. I set the ISO to 400, and I just held really still (exposure was .6 sec). I took a bunch of pictures of the left half, a bunch more of the right half - making sure to overlap. That's really it. More shots gave me more chances that one was sharp. Then I combined the two shots in Photoshop Elements. A tripod and a wider lens would have made this much easier -but I didn't want to lug a tripod with me through Italy and I don't have a wider lens.

[Chip]

Really well done - all 4 of them.

I especially like the one of the Pantheon - a bit of blur, very sharp everywhere else, nice colors, etc.

Thanks for posting.

[save_alkaline]

thanks for sharing. really well done!

[klam]

Really sweet shots. Especially for hand held