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Why did I take this photo?
When I'm visiting somewhere new, and Liz and I had never been to Tuscany before, I'm always on the lookout for a certain something that defines the area, some aspect that conveys an amabience and endenders in the viewer the sort of feeling that I was experiencing while there.
Quite often I'll find what I'm looking for in a certain colour palette that occurs almost subliminaly throughout the area we're visiting.
For the town of Pisa I found what I was looking for in the rich ochre colour that most of the older building are painted with, set against the pale grey of the natural stone of this region.
I found both colours boldly set against each other in this stone sign for the Pisa Opera, just a stone's throw away from the famous Leaning Tower in the Piazza del Duomo.
Filename - pisa opera sign 01.jpg
Camera - Canon 5D
Lens - 24-105mm zoom @ 105mm
Exposure - 1/250sec @ f5.6, ISO200
Location - Pisa, Italy
This image - 800x533px JPEG
Conversion - ACR & PS-CS2
Comments - Fast shutter speed used to prevent blur with hand held exposure.
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