Terra Cotta

This was a hard picture to take. I had some great, warm sunset light

and a rapidly-changing sky, but no tripod and Velvia in my FE. I

wanted to catch as much detail in the terra cotta figures as

possible, while catching the contrast and warm tones in the old wall

and keeping everything within focus. Since Velvia tends to black out

shadows like this, I accepted this and tried to play off the shadows

on the wall - extending the natural line of the wall straight through

with the shadow. My favorite thing about this photo is, of course,

the color, but also the wall texture and variety. It reminds me of

Italy.