St. Peter's Basilica

This is the inside of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Shelley and I were here in 2005 on our trip through Germany and Italy. What I remember most about this visit was us stalking a priest to get him to bless a rosary for a friend of Shelley's family.

This shot initially didn't do much for me until I put it into sepia tone and darkened the shadows. The result was more pronounced rays of light pouring into the Cathedral which constrast nicely against the general dark tone of the rest of the image.

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Rome, right before the rain

Photography is an emerging interest of mine and I'd like to share some of my favorite shots from over the years.

My first photo is one that I didn't really think much of until a few months ago. I was fooling around with Adobe Fireworks and I found that if I turned the original photo (shot in color) into a black and white shot, then I could colorize parts of the Italian flag and superimpose it on the black and white photo. I played around with the lighting and voila, I created a shot that I really thought was cool.

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