A Field of Miracles

My focus in Tuscany this Summer was to shoot Street and to avoid standard tourist pics, but well, what can you do when you see a sky like this. I shot this for HDR (I tried a bracketed series even), but on second thoughts, I thought why would I do that? So, this is

No HDR, No Tonemapping

I must say that I was skeptical about Pisa, seeing it as one of the worst touristic clichés ever and I postponed going there for quite some time, but I was wrong, it was awesome. Not because there happens to be a leaning tower (I could mention you four more of those from the top of my head), but because of the architecture. The real star for me is the cathedral, with it's Byzantine-Arabian-local Romanesque influenced interior, which - Tardis-like - manages to look bigger than the exterior.
The complex shows that, although Pisa is a provincial backwater now, at one time the Pisans had a reason to feel like they were living in the Tokyo or London of their age.

Photoshop CS3, curves, perspective.

I dedicate this to all my friends and watchers who sent me on my way with the best of wishes, and whom I genuinely missed even amidst visions like the above.

Thanks so much for featuring

in his journal "From a dear dA friend" [link]