Time Travel

[DebinSC]

I've had the past week off from work and had a little time to "play", so I pulled out a handful of photos taken on a couple of trips I took between 1984 and 1987 (mainly Italy & England). They were all taken with a true 'point and shoot' camera, and the negatives are who knows where, so I scanned them to see how they'd do digitally. Some turned out better than others. Indulge me while I share the results? :)

Starting close to home, in Montego Bay, Jamaica, 1984.

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Then, moving at light speed across the Atlantic....
Somewhere in the Alps, Austria, I think, taken from the Orient Express on the way to Venice.

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Feeding time at San Marco. Gazillions of pigeons descend on St. Mark's Sq. in Venice daily for the tourist to feed them. To this day, when I see a pigeon take flight from anywhere, I think to myself, "Must be feeding time at St. Mark's." :)

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Taken on a small canal in Venice, probably because I was amused that they had traffic signs for the gondolas, and other boats that use the canals.

I posted a photo of me in the gondola on todays "Open" theme page. If you've never been to Venice, then I highly recommend it. And if you go, you must pay the exhorbitant fare for a gondola ride., especially at the end of a long day of sight-seeing. Imagine gliding silently down the canals, nothing but the sound of water lapping on sun-dappled ancient stone, and the soft calls of the gondoliers. Heaven, imo. Sigh.
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Bridge over the Arno in Florence, Italy.

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Taken in the Shambles area of York. Shambles is a meandering, narrow medieval street.**

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Near the entrance to Stourhead, in Wiltshire, which is a large garden around a lake. It was - if memory serves - designed by it's owner some 200+ years or so ago. There are follies dotted around the lake, including a grotto and a small Greek temple.

If King Arthur had to mail something, this is where he'd have done it. The post office building in Tintagel, on the Cornwall coast. This structure dates to the mid-1400's. (Actually, it was a manor house when it was built.)
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Castleton, in Derbyshire. Most visitors go there to see the caves and caverns, but I thought the village itself was very pretty. The house in the photo at the top of this blog is also in Castleton.
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According to the note on the back of the print, I took this from the 439th step on the way down into Clovelly. For those who aren't familiar with Clovelly, it's a village in Devon that's on the sea, basically at the bottom of a cliff. To get there you park up above and walk down what seems like 1000 steps. There's a sort of taxi service of Land Rovers that run down to the harbor, but cars can't go into the village (though donkeys do).

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Finally, Clovelly, a little further down. I think I was happiest with the way this photo came out. There's a picure of the harbor that I posted on the main page a while back.

[sjasis]

Thanks for sharing with us! I've never been to most of these places so I truly enjoy taking this photo trip with you! Italy is definitely in my top 5 list.... I was there when I was in college - over 40 years ago - and would love to revisit all my favorite spots plus take in some - like Venice- that I didn't make it to.

[DebinSC]

Glad you enjoyd it, SJ.
I'd love to go back, too. Hoping this economy recovers and my savings come back. :)

[Bebop]

I really enjoyed each one of these photos. You have such a feel for the intrinsic color of a place and your compositions are spot on.

I've been scanning old photos of New Hampshire the last few days. I find I have to do a lot of cleanup of spots and damage that doesn't really show on the little prints.

[Boing Boing]

You hopped about a bit in England! Places there off most tourist trails.

[DebinSC]

Glad you enjoyed my little tour. All the photos were taken with something not much above the old Kodak "Instamatic", so I was pleased at some of the results.
I've been enjoying your New Hamp. pics, too, Bebop.

[GTO]

very nice photos and they came out real well....like that one of the Alps the best

[DebinSC]

Thanks, Louie. Oddly, that's the one that required almost no editing after the scan. :)

[DebinSC]

Haven't had the chance to scan this one yet, so this is a photo of the print. If it's better after scanning, I'll post it again. Taken at or near Newquay, in Cornwall...many years ago. :)

[Nicola LM]

Debin, I really love that shot of the house at top; the angle and everything you captured in it is just wonderful to look at. All the pics are pretty good. The one in York is fascinating... I like the action you captured in that one.