Florence-Aglow

What I remember most about the streets of Florence, Italy are

buildings with walls of large stones and stucco in hues of golden

honey, warm grays, glowing yellows and burnt and raw sienna; beautiful

wooden doors with shiny brass; windows with iron bars; buildings with

beautiful stone carvings; stone side walks and streets; glass and iron

street lamps, graffiti; bicycles; the smell of leather; dark and damp

passages and being lost. But when I romanticize Florence, it all

becomes aglow. Comments and critique welcome.

Thanks, GungaJim.  Your visit and comment are most appreciated.  Often I am not sure how I arrive at an image.  I create photographs much like I paint. I try to feel the demand for a brush stoke, a hue, a tonal value, an emphasis a meaning.  Many failures but sometimes an image that I feel and think I understand and like.  I am lucky sometimes if others like it too.  Notice from someone with your accomplishment of images is much appreciated.

Best regards, Wayne!

PDE

Thanks, Pierre.  Your kind comment is appreciated.

Hi Wayne,

Rather surrealistic, but I like it.

The over exposed roadway could have been easily prevented, but perhaps you

intended such an effect here.

Best Regards my friend, Mike

Thanks, Mike.  As the image developed I learned to like the blown roadway and decided the leave it.

Bem!

Thanks, Miguel. I'll interpret that as in bene, bein, good.

Hi Wayne,

  Beautiful creative image with amazing colors & processing.  Take care, Patsy

Great art here:...6!

Beautiful work!

Thanks, Patsy, Maurizo and Bill.  Your kind comments are appreciated and encouraging.  I generally am reluctant to post some of what I think are expressionistic works.  I am thrilled to see that someone other than me appreciates it.

Amazing stuff - 6.

Thanks, Tony.  That's encouraging.  Really appreciated.

The painterly effect works so well with this street scene, captured so perfectly so the eye travels back into the beautifully lit domed building in the rear.  Great composition.

Lynne,

Much appreciated.

Jeff,

Many thanks.  I debated how this image would be received.  Comments by artists whose work you admire are especially encouraging.