B&W gallery: Volterra alley

The walled city of Volterra, Tuscany, home to the Italian alabaster industry and a centre of

the ancient Etruscan people. This is a side alley off the main shopping street. With these

ancient Italian towns and villages, you have to be lucky with the light - it may only shine in

these narrow passages for half an hour a day, or, in some I've seen, not at all, probably.

This picture has a flavour of the 'Ansel Adams' about it - striking light, strong contrast, detail

in the shadow and highlight areas, good - I hope - composition. It may not be worthy of the

great man, but then it wasn't taken with a 10 x 8 plate camera and I'm not Ansel Adams. I

may have been sarcastically referred to as 'Ansel Adnams' occasionally, after the local

brewery for whose product I have a certain fondness, but that, alas, is as close as I get.

The walled city of Volterra, Tuscany, home to the Italian alabaster industry and a centre of the

ancient Etruscan people. This is a side alley off the main shopping street. With these ancient

Italian towns and villages, you have to be lucky with the light - it may only shine in these narrow

passages for half an hour a day, or, in some I've seen, not at all, probably.

This picture has a flavour of the 'Ansel Adams' about it - striking light, strong contrast, detail in

the shadow and highlight areas, good - I hope - composition. It may not be worthy of the great

man, but then it wasn't taken with a 10 x 8 plate camera and I'm not Ansel Adams. I may

have been sarcastically referred to as 'Ansel Adnams' occasionally, after the local brewery for

whose product I have a certain fondness, but that, alas, is as close as I get.