Category Archives: Photography

italian fashion is for real

In case you were wondering, there IS something eye-catching and a little bit exciting in Italian fashion. It is beautiful and it looks effortless (but I bet it’s not!). And somehow, even though we were melting in the heat, the fashionably-dressed Sicilians always looked fresh and comfortable. (Except maybe the ones wearing those very tall shoes…)

Ragusa Ibla, Sicily
photographed 9.7.2022

holds the treasure you seek

I can’t remember how I found this grotto, but that doesn’t really matter too much: the point is that I did find it.

Ragusa Ibla, Sicily
photographed 9.7.2022

jesus and roses

The thing about traveling in a group of photographers is that sometimes they get clumped up because everyone needs (Needs, I say!) that shot from that angle in that light of that Duomo. Or whatever. It can (and did) get frustrating. But if I hadn’t been all pissy way back there at the back of the clump, I probably wouldn’t have noticed the shrine in the wall. And I still got the obligatory shot of the Duomo.

Ragusa Ibla, Sicily
photographed 9.7.2022

as the waves softened us

That night in the warm darkness, I could hear conversations in Italian on my right and, behind me, conversations in English. I sat alone with my thoughts, listening to the waves roll across the sun-heated sand and marveling at the way my life had turned out that I was there on the shores of the Mediterranean on a full-moon night with a camera in my hand.

Erelcea Minoa, Sicily
photographed 9.7.2022

color study (sicily)

The entire day was joyous in every way you can imagine, so it wasn’t necessarily a surprise to look up this narrow passageway and see so much color dabbed about.

Bivona, Sicily
photographed 9.4.2022