B&W gallery: Volterra wall

I didn't shoot this picture with this final edit in mind. In fact I don't really know why I shot it

at all, as it's little better than a snapshot as we walked out of the town, and as it doesn't

even have friends in it, it's not even a memo for the family album! However, once on

screen, a picture very often develops (pardon the pun) out of nothing at all, as here.

And if I'm to criticise my own work before anybody else does, I would add that a number

of my pictures would benefit from having that little extra 'something' in them - something

that might have come along had I waited long enough. Like an old lady perfectly placed in

the frame to offset her surroundings, or a lost shoe that becomes the focal point of the

picture.... Here, a cat slinking along the wall would have been nice and perhaps made it a

more interesting picture. But I'm not about to start adding stuff to the images now; that

in my view would be an abuse of the photographic process: if the picture's missing

something, that's my fault, so you won't find any images that have been doctored in that

way on this site.

I didn't shoot this picture with this final edit in mind. In fact I don't really know why I shot it at

all, as it's little better than a snapshot as we walked out of the town, and as it doesn't even

have friends in it, it's not even a memo for the family album! However, once on screen, a

picture very often develops (pardon the pun) out of nothing at all, as here.

And if I'm to criticise my own work before anybody else does, I would add that a number of

my pictures would benefit from having that little extra 'something' in them - something that

might have come along had I waited long enough. Like an old lady perfectly placed in the

frame to offset her surroundings, or a lost shoe that becomes the focal point of the picture....

Here, a cat slinking along the wall would have been nice and perhaps made it a more

interesting picture. But I'm not about to start adding stuff to the images now; that in my view

would be an abuse of the photographic process: if the picture's missing something, that's my

fault, so you won't find any images that have been doctored in that way on this site.

The glow of Tuscany...