28mm Pantheon

I think the pantheon could be refurbished. Your picture of it shows the chipping from the dome. The chipping means its getting older and older and will need to be rejuvenated. There are mny nice tones of gray in your picture. I have never been to Rome and would like to go.

Wonderful photo!

-Allenda

Allenda, I'm glad you like it.

 

Alexander, thanks for your comment.

 

I don't think the Pantheon is in too bad a condition, considering it is over 1800 years old! As for the roof - it used to be lined with bronze until the Barbirini Popes stripped it in the Renaissance in order to decorate the Vatican! - pretty bizarre thing to do really, considering that by that time it had been a consecrated christian church since the time of the Emperor Constantine! - How crass was that?

I seem to remember that the Romans mostly thought it pretty crass at the time and came up with the tag line about 'The Barberini managed to do what the Barbari didn't'.

 

You have managed to control the convergence quite well (PS assistance can be a useful alternative to a shift lens under these circumstances). I would have preferred colour but that is just me. The figures give a nice sense of scale. 6/6

Thanks for the comment Colin.

 

The only assistance was to rotate the original image 2 degrees for a better aesthetic, and then to slightly recrop - other than that, this is how it came out of the camera!

 

I know what you mean about this image and colour, but I'm sort of going through a hard-core B&W phase at the moment!

The Pantheon in Rome is such a fabulous building, when I was in Rome, I couldn't resist

visiting it each day; and each day, I always found something new.

 

Any comments, suggestions or critiques would be welcomed. - Thanks.

Good sense of space in this image.

 

As for the peeling ceiling, well, this IS the only intact interior from the classical world. Without that little bit of decay one might forget that when inside.

Great capture of a large historical indoor space. Good composition, detail, range of tones and an appropriate level of activity. I like it in B&W - nice image.