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La Rosa dei Banchi (3164m), situata sullo spartiacque tra la Valle d'Aosta ed il Piemonte alle testate della Valle dei Banchi (Champorcher, Valle d'Aosta), della Valle di Campiglia e della Valle di Piamprato (Piemonte). Vista dalla cresta ovest, a poca distanza dalle Colle della Rosa (2957m), il 5 agosto 2007, sul ritorno dalla festa del lago Miserino. ----- http://www.vallesoana.it ----- |
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Il Monte Marzo e` una montagna abbastanza massiccia caratterizzata da un intaglio visibile anche dalla pianura che scende fino al colle delle Oche. Le creste che scendono dalla vetta separano rispettivamente la Valle Soana dalla Val Chiusella a sud, la Valle di Champorcher dalla Valle Soana a Nord, la Val Chiusella dalla Valle di Champorcher ad est. L'itinerario più interessante riteniamo sia quello che dal colle delle Oche sale attraverso la cresta sud con passaggi di I e brevi tratti di II grado. Il panorama dalla vetta e` assai vasto poiché spazia dal Gran Paradiso al Cervino, al Monte Rosa, alla pianura, fino al Monviso ed alla Ciamarella. Dalla vetta si può scendere facilmente sia verso il monte Facciabella, sia direttamente sul lago Morto per poi rientrare all'alpe di Santanel. Sulla vetta vi e` posta una croce metallica eretta nel 1933 in occasione dell'anno Santo ed un grosso ometto di pietra. ----- http://www.vallesoana.it ----- |
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Taken in May 2007 at a small shop on the Oltrarno side of the Arno River in Florence (Firenze, Italie), Italy, near the Ponte Vecchio, probably on Borgo San Jacobo, but can't be certain. Taken by Shadowfax11. The detail of the patterns in the ties and the colours and, of course, the novel display are the attraction here. There are plenty of cartoon characters, plaid, paisley, stripes and geometric ties of all sorts. |
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This 4,000 year old red granite obelisk (sometimes referred to as the obelisk of Rameses II) required an unimaginable amount of effort and energy to transplant from its native Egypt to this "Square of the People" (originally "Square of the Poplars" in older translations) in Rome, Italy. The mind boggles! The panorama method enables even the hieroglyphs at the very top of the obelisk to be read clearly. The Piazza is at one end of the Via del Corso, one of the main high-end shopping streets in Rome. We reached it riding a small electric city bus which was part public transport and part rollicking amusement park ride! In the 2009 movie "Angels and Demons", this location and obelisk are seen on the way to the first crime scene in the movie, by the way. |
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Venice as it appeared on May 15, 2007 in transit from the island of Lido. This was a hand-held shot from a bobbing vaporetto ("public bus" boat) at a stop along the way! San Marco square is the tower to the right in this photo. This view is a re-generation of a panorama I had uploaded earlier --- Photostitch's second attempt was able to resolve some of the margin errors between pictures. |
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A tower has stood on this spot in Venice since the 10th century. The present campanile is a reproduction of a brick structure by renaissance master builder Bertola Bon which collapsed suddenly in 1912. Notice the incredible amount of traffic in the Canale di San Marco. Venice must be one of the few cities where the traffic control of the waterways is as complex and worrisome as the air traffic controller at the airport! While I was taking this hand-held panorama, the bells tolled out the hour after a deafening fanfare! I thought the tower would be vibrating, but it seemed to take the tolling in stride. The island at centre is Isola di San Giogio Maggiore, to the South. |
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(Note: This hand-held panorama was taken in May 2007, when there was scaffolding on one side of the Basilica during renovation work there.) Called by Napoleon "the drawing room of Europe", the Piazza San Marco is a must-see destination for every visitor to Venice. The Square is anchored on one end by the heavily ornamented and multi-domed Basilica San Marco. Begun in the 11th century, it is an amazing example of the influence of the Byzantine style on Venetian architecture. The mechanized city clock tower (Torre dell'Orologio) has two hammer-toting bronze Moors clang out the hours by slowly rotating and hitting a bell. Most every tourist to Venice visits the Piazza, but not everyone goes to the top of the Campanile. Don't worry about climbing endless stairs, there is a small elevator to the top! |
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Taken in May, 2007, this view from the campanile tower on the piazza/square of San Marco, overlooks some of the urban islands which form Venice. The omnipresent tile roofs form a sea of consistent terra cotta red which can only be apprecated fully from a viewpoint such as this one. |
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Hand-held panorama taken in May 2007. The brick structure at the left is the base of the Campanile tower from which I took several hand-held panoramas the same day as this one. Searching for "Campanile" will find those, and if you search for panoramas by "Vicenç Palà (vicencpala)", you can see the Piazza San Marco at other times (day and night) and taken with a steadier hand and in a sober rectangular format, too. |