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Italy Photo of the Week: Turin Door Knocker
For this Italy photo of the week, we’re in Turin:
Yes, you’re looking at the door-knocker on some random building entrance in the city of Turin. Yes, there are arguably plenty of things in Turin that are more worthy of being singled out for a photo, and it’s extremely unlikely that someone’s going to organize a “Tour of Italy’s Great Door Knockers” anytime soon. So why am I highlighting this door knocker in Turin? Because for me, both travel and photography are about focusing on the little things as much as the big things. They’re both about finding …
Date: March 15th, 2008 |
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Bonus Italy Photo of the Week: Asolo Gate
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For this Italy photo of the week, we are in Asolo:
Asolo is a tiny hilltop town north of Venice. I’m not convinced there’s a perfectly flat street in the entire town, it’s so perched on top of a hill. At its very top is a castle ruin, and I spotted this gate en route to the castle. I loved this gate… I’m sure if I were the owner of the gate it would drive me nuts, half falling apart every time I tried to open …
Date: March 7th, 2008 |
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Bonus Italy Photo of the Week: Venice Gondoliere
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For this extra Italy photo of the week, here’s a picture I took two days ago in Venice:
While the role of a gondola driver (a “gondoliere”) may seem boring and not require much skill, if you pay attention you’ll see that those tight corners and other passing boats in narrow canals means that the person steering that impossibly long gondola has got to be pretty adept at not crashing into things. In this picture, you can see the driver using the nearby walls as a …
Date: February 28th, 2008 |
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First Italy Logue Photo Contest
The Italy Logue has been up and running now for just over a year, so I think it’s time to celebrate with our first Italy Logue contest. This one is going to be simple, so you should all enter it. Really.
First Italy Logue Photo Contest
Yes, folks, it’s a photo contest! While I’m here in Italy happily snapping pictures to be added to our Italy Photos page, I’m also excited to see what pictures you’ve taken in Italy. So as long as you took the photo, it’s good enough for me.
The photos can be of anything, so long as they were taken somewhere in Italy (or the city-states within its borders, like San Marino or the Vatican). You’ll just need to tell me where you took the picture (city and sight/attraction/restaurant/etc. if applicable) and when you took it. The contest will run throughout my trip - the final date to send me entries is March 31, 2008 by midnight Pacific Time, and I’ll announce a winner on April 7, 2008. I may choose to narrow the choices down to a few and poll my co-workers, but I’ll maintain veto authority. I’m a control freak, what can I say?
Send your photos to me at italy@logueit.com - please try to keep them under 2MB per image. And remember to include the following:
Date: February 23rd, 2008 |
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Italy Photo of the Week: Siena Palio Marching Band
I’m going to try something new and introduce an Italy photo of the week to you here. I’ve got a bunch of pictures uploaded now on the Italy photos page of this travel guide, and that’s not even all the photos of Italy I have (there are still plenty which pre-dated my digital camera, so I’ve got to find time - or a willing slave! - to scan them), so I should be able to keep this up for awhile. Plus, I plan to be seriously snap-happy on my upcoming trip, so that ought to set this feature up for awhile.
For starters, check out this picture from Siena in 2001:
Date: February 14th, 2008 |
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Don’t Forget to Enter the Italy Photo Contest!
It’s now almost two weeks into March, which means you’ve only got a couple weeks left to enter our first Italy photo contest. To recap a few of the more pertinent details:
Entry Deadline
March 31, 2008 at midnight Pacific Time
What to Send
Any photos you took, as long as they were taken in Italy - no more than 2MB per image, please - along with information about where the photo was taken. And include your name and email address so we can contact you if you’re the lucky winner.
Where to Send It
Send your entries to me via email.
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Date: March 13th, 2008 |
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Italy Photo of the Week: Chocolate Festival Display
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For this Italy photo of the week, here’s a taste of the chocolate festival I attended over the weekend:
CioccolaTÒ is Turin’s chocolate festival, and I visited on its last day this year. It was a perfectly gorgeous summer-like day, which may not have been ideal for a festival dedicated to something that can melt, but that didn’t seem to bother the vendors. Instead, the air smelled of chocolate and everyone was riding a sugar high. Not a bad way to spend a Sunday. The theme …
Date: March 3rd, 2008 |
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Italy Photo of the Week: Easter Window
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For this Italy photo of the week, let’s get seasonal here in Milan:
It’s coming up on Easter here in Italy, and every sweet shop worth its salt has a gorgeous Easter display in its window. There are chocolate (and other) eggs of the sizes we’re used to back in the States, but the ones that get the prime real estate in the windows are the eggs that are almost the size of a human head. I’m not joking. You can’t get an accurate idea of …
Date: February 25th, 2008 |
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Italy Photo of the Week: Bridge of Sighs
For this Italy photo of the week, we make a stop in Venice:
One of Venice’s iconic images, the Bridge of Sighs (or Ponte di Sospiri in Italian) is inaccessible unless you go on a tour of the Doge’s Palace. That’s the palace on the left, and the building the bridge leads to on the right is the prison. This romantic-looking bridge leads from the courtroom in the Doge’s Palace straight into the prison, and it got its name because prisoners would sigh as they caught the last glimpses of their beloved city before being led into …
Date: February 22nd, 2008 |
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