Lost City in Sorrento
Adjacent to the center of picturesque Sorrento, Italy two chasms meet. Long ago, rivers in these gorges flowed cleanly down to the ocean, and were the original settlement in the…
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November 26, 2015
Hieroglyphic or La Dolce Vita
Sunbathing on the boat ramp in Riomaggiore harbor could be La Dolce Vita---the sweet life, and the name of a 1960 Fellini film. Except that the angle of repose causes…
November 25, 2015
Photograph Venice with Harold Davis (November 2016)
Photograph Venice with Harold Davis---click here for full details and itinerary! November 6 - November 12, 2016 (seven days and six nights); $6,195 per person (single supplement $425). Click here to download…
November 24, 2015
Under the Tuscan Skies: Photograph Tuscany with Harold Davis (October 2016)
Under the Tuscan Skies: Photograph Tuscany with Harold Davis---Click here for full details and itinerary! October 22 - October 29, 2016 (eight days and seven nights); $4,895 per person (single…
November 23, 2015
Canyon Conundrum
The seaside village of Vernazza, Italy makes its living from catching fishes and catering to tourists. Carved into the rocky ledges of the Ligurian coast, behind the village facade facing…
November 22, 2015
Venice and Waterlogue
Photographing Venice, Italy with my iPhone 6s camera, and processing the images using the Waterlogue app on the phone, is great! In fact, you could say that Venice via the…
November 20, 2015
Florence and Venice
Florence and Venice, two great Italian cities, one photographed at the beginning and one at the end of my recent trip to Italy! Related story: Harold in Italy. Related story:…
November 19, 2015
Female Gondolier in Venice
There aren't very many female gondoliers in Venice. You can probably count them on the fingers of one hand. So it was very exciting to meet and talk to a…
November 18, 2015
Venice Perspective
At the tip of Dorsoduro, the Venetian Quarter across the Grand Canal from San Marco, sits the Dogana di Mare. The Dogana di Mare is a colonnaded customs station built…
November 17, 2015
Burano
My friend Mauro and I took the vaporetto across the fog-bound Venice lagoon to Burano. Just like a trip to a remote part of a city served by an on-land…
November 14, 2015
Venice of Dreams
Coming into Venice after a long day on the train from Naples was a dream-like experience. From southern almost summer time I was transported into an early November dark world…
November 12, 2015
View from Ravello
Ravello sits about 1,000 feet above the town of Amalfi on the stupendous Amalfi Coast of Italy. Back in the 1200s and 1300s, when Amalfi was a geopolitical powerhouse, Ravello…
November 10, 2015
Positano
Positano has rightly been described as a town of cliff dwellers because it seems to defy the laws of gravity, with buildings connected via stairway after staircase. There are no…
November 8, 2015
Gardens of the Villa San Michele
At the end of the 1800s an eccentric Swedish physician with aristocratic connections, Axel Munthe, began work on his "dream house" on the island of Capri in Italy. The location…
November 7, 2015
Courtyard in Naples
Glancing through the huge double-doors, I saw this courtyard in old Naples. Boldly I stepped through the doors, and iPhone held high like any tourist made this image, which I…
November 6, 2015
Antipasto
I had this mixed antipasto at Campagnola, a classic Neapolitan trattoria in the heart of old Naples. The dish was incredibly delicious. Words simply cannot describe the sensuous lusciousness of…
November 4, 2015
Coming into Naples
Coming into Naples, an incredible snarl of traffic. This is take-no-prisoners driving, and really kind of fun to watch in a madcap way. Particularly since it wasn't me driving. We…
November 3, 2015