Nerd Rage

Here’s a panorama – didn’t have those for a while – stitched from 4 por­trait shots. This is the view from the ter­race atop Cas­tel Sant’Angelo (right below the angel) look­ing west toward Saint Peter’s basil­ica. I shot this on the day we went back to Ger­many, which was one of two days we had …

Here’s a panorama – didn’t have those for a while – stitched from 4 por­trait shots. This is the view from the ter­race atop Cas­tel Sant’Angelo (right below the angel) look­ing west toward Saint Peter’s basil­ica. I shot this on the day we went back to Ger­many, which was one of two days we had …

Here are some can­non­ball stacks in one of the inner court­yards of the Cas­tel. I tried to do some seri­ous bokeh here, but I was too far away from the front stack (in order not to have much else than the sec­ond stack in the back­ground) and could not go above f/4.8 aper­ture at the …

After intend­ing to go there for more than a year, we finally took a stroll along the divider in the Main that sep­a­rates the old port from the river (see GPS info on flickr). There were a cou­ple of signs pro­hibit­ing to enter and warn­ing us of unsta­ble ground under­foot at the end, but we …

Saw this cool sky the other day; must have been shortly before it started to rain, when the sun was fight­ing hard to get some of her rays through that thick layer of clouds.

We must have passed the Basil­ica at least 6 or 7 times dur­ing our 5 days in Rome, as it sat right between our hotel and the part of the city reach­able by foot – we would take the sub­way for any­thing that was a bit fur­ther away. It night, when there were less peo­ple …

JSOVT(MB), the Ital­ian edi­tion. These are the stairs up to the Palazzo Sen­a­to­rio on the Piazza del Campi­doglio, where we rested for a few min­utes to fig­ure out where to go next – or was it how to get back to the hotel? Prob­a­bly the lat­ter, because on this day, we had already seen the …

I need to stop doing these crazy panora­mas. I just spent the evening stitch­ing the six sin­gle shots that make up this panorama together, and then dis­tort­ing and warp­ing the bajeezus out of it to make it look some­what right. I’m not bliss­ful about it, but it works and I’m not in the mood to …

This is the Cas­tel Sant’Angelo viewed from the Ponte Sant’Angelo (Bridge of Angels) in Rome, Italy. This shot was taken in the evening of the sec­ond day of our short trip there last month – actu­ally, it was more like a long week­end in Rome. I’m not going to talk much about the cas­tle because …