La Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (below) in front of Sant'Agnese in Agone (above)
Basilica di Santa Maria sopra Minerva
Kind of want to get that last photo tattooed somewhere. Of course.
And the "best photo of the day" is not going to happen. It was painful for me to narrow it down to the eleven you see here. More likely it will be the best dozen or so a day. Maybe more, since LJ introduced me to Picasa today, which is SO MUCH BETTER than Imageshack. Side note. Anyway.
While LeAnne traipsed ALL the way back to the airport to get her luggage (worst day of her life, you'll have to ask her about it), Anna and I went over to the Four Rivers fountain, one of the nine hundred churches in Rome, the Pulcino della Minerva (the famous Bernini elephant sculpture), and the Pantheon to take photos. I love Bernini's sculptures, and luckily for me, there's probably more Bernini sculptures in Rome than there are churches. As I'm learning more Italian, I'm understanding more what the names of things mean. The Santa Maria sopra Minerva is named because it was built over (sopra) the foundations of an Egyptian temple. Not that you care. But I think its cool.
The Pantheon is useless for taking photos. It was stuffed with tourists, and you would need the widest wide-angle lens to get even part of the dome. Its quite large, and not all that high. There are much bigger domes in Rome, obviously, but they aren't so close to the ground. It was cool to see the tomb of Raffaello Sanzio, though (even though I learned from some dumb Hollywood movie that the Pantheon wasn't where he was originally buried).
3 comments:
The trick in the Pantheon is to go in the early evening, and crank up the ISO.
Even with the cropped sensor? I don't think I could get it to even look like a dome, its so low
The 'sea monster' in the fountain looks like a fossil from millions years ago, awesome.
The daylight colors near the fountain are beautiful.
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