Welcome to my photo web site! First, let me tell you about about myself: I'm a amateur photographer who took his first pictures almost fifty years ago. But to earn a living I studied Economics and Law and after many years of working I'm finally retired. My last job was as General Purchasing Manager in the main Steel producing firm in my country.
My other hobby is tourism. And this is well related with Photography. I do not like at all to get this pictures where the travellers are photographied in front of, let's say, the Eiffel tower, but to shoot myself these pictures that when reviewed at home give us so many sensations about the places and the people wue met.
Anyway it's impossible avoiding any souvenir so let me show you a picture my wife took in one of the last travels to Venezia in Italy. I'm embracing the four "tetrarcas" a old black granite sculpture of four roman emperors that ruled the last Roman Byzantine Empire.
I like to shoot in all my trips, and I used to shoot in negative so one can get paper copies but the irregular color results that varied from a trip to another moved to me to slides where I found consistency. During last thirty years I got plenty of pictures that rest on drawers without any notion of order so to get some is very often a pain.
Anyway I've got a picture were the "souvenir" has become history. Let me show the picture I took of the twin towers in my last trip to New York. You can see my travel pictures are not essentially "tourist" pictures. I do not mind that they are "good" pictures but that I try tho get original point of view.
In this shoot the use of an extreme wide, the 14mm f1:2.8 EF L on a Canon EOS 1n allowed me to take both towers complete. Converging lines are unavoidable but the effect, I think, of getting in one picture from the floor the whole sky-scrappers is truly interesting.
