The early morning adventures of the Sleepless Dad are still on! And now, the dynamic duo (Sleepless Dad and Incredibly Awake Son*) started reaching farther and farther away from home every morning.
Yeah. At least I can pretend waking up at 5am and driving around for hours is fun… Lately we have been pushing farther away from home, and our favourite destination is Skerries. It’s a beautiful town, on the sea. It has nice harbour (not so nice with low tide, but beggars can’t be choosers).
The little one has taken a liking to being there in the early moments of the day, because we can often see the local wildlife: seals!
I really like it when he just waves at them, a huge smile on his face.
It’s hard to believe it’s been almost three years since I last posted anything here. I would try to apologise for it and promise that I will keep this blog updated more often, but let’s be real… I mean, I will try, but I am not going to commit to anything.
So… what’s new? Well not much… I mean, we had a few very uneventful years, haven’t we? It’s not like a global health crisis happened, or anything. And in the middle of all this, to make things more interesting, we had a few family events too: we decided to get married, we did get married, we had a child, we bought a house, and we moved… The pandemic was just there to make things more interesting for us. To make sure we wouldn’t get bored.
A wedding
A new baby
Isolation and necessities
I will try to add a post or two about some of these stories, the wedding in particular was a modern day Odyssey.
Life has changed quite a bit, and not all of it was for the best; all of the family developments were the stuff dreams are made out of, but all the rest… social distancing, isolation, anxiety, not being able to meet family and friends… They have taken a toll on us, especially the part about family. We still have grandparents who have not met their grandchild yet. Thankfully things have slowly started going back to normal, and we are beginning to see signs of hope.
In all this, I have decided to start writing again. Not much: I am not making any promises, especially since our lives have changed so much, and I am not likely to be able to do the kind of photography I like the most, since it usually requires crowds and big events… As a consequence, my wife suggested that I could start a new type of post, something along the lines of “How did I get this shot”, in which I explain the whole process behind a finished image. The idea is to describe the choice of shutter speed, aperture, and ISO, describe the whole development process, and then explain the choices behind post processing and what I was trying to achieve. Apparently this has been more useful than “me rambling on for hours on photography techniques and theory of photography”… I’m sure she meant it as a compliment…
What else to say; let’s see if I can actually go on writing posts this time around, or if we’ll have to wait another three or four years for the next post.
Ok… I haven’t written a new post in ages… I think it might have been 6 months already
I haven’t really taken many photos in november and December 2017, but I did go back to Italy for New Year’s and I did travel around for a few days 🙂 .
Verona
The city of romance: the city of Romeo and Juliet (apparently everybody remembers the love story and forgets about its extremely high death rate and its very short duration).
San Zeno cathedral
Sunset
Looooove
Arena
Smile
Bra Square
Relaxing
Amphiteatre in Bra square
Beautiful city, if you manage to visit it when it’s not foggy out…
Bologna
“La dotta, la grassa, la rossa”. If you don’t know what that means, you have to find out now 😛
Bologna is a beautiful city (and since I am from Modena, the neighbouring city, it hurts me to say this 🙂 ), rich in history and architecture.
And the food… THE FOOD!!
Playing the piano
Thin you’re free
Street music
Chestnuts
Romance
Don’t panic
Venezia
No introduction needed for this one.
Uncool wool
Floating stores
Wind and rain
Singing in the rain
Floating buses
Siena
Siena is a gem in the centre of Tuscany. While not as popular as Firenze it sure has a lot to offer…
“Life is weird: one moment you’re happy and a second later you’re out of wine!!!”
Prisoner
Marvelous
Cigar
Public palace
Streets
Good doggie
Contrast
Sometimes I wish I could go back more often and roam the country with my camera…