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Spiral staircase in the Vatican Museum. / I love spiral staircases and this is an amazing example. Definately inspired by nature, when you looked at it you coudn’t help but see the shell like forms appearing. I would love to photograph this with nobody else around, but I actually feel the people add some scale to this piece and I dont mind them being there at all. If I didnt have the Vatican Guards looking over my shoulder I would have been there all day!
Piazza San Pietro, Vatican City The tour begins. / Bernini’s massive Piazza San Pietro is a breathtaking work of baroque town planning laid out in the 17th Century as a place for Christians to gather. Looked at from above the piazza resembles a giant keyhole: two semicircular colonades, each made up of four rows of Doric columns. On the square there are… Hang on I think we have a straggler.. “Can you keep up please… stay with the group!”
A ceiling of a corridor in the Vatican City, Rome…and this was just the corridor…
Taken during my trip to Rome, Italy. These are the endless rows of chairs right in front of the Vatican.
I have made a modification to my Rome Calendar as the last page was of the Sistine Chapel, and while it was OK for my personal calendar, to make this page available for purchase is against copyright laws on the original painting. So I have replaced with the wonderful staircase in the museum. I took a number of photos, so I could photoshop people out and have just the staircase. I have applied the watercolour filter to match the other images in the calendar. Rome & Vatican City Calendar: / :
Taken August 2008. From my trip to Rome. / I finally gotten around to go through all the photos, much more on the way. Shot inside the Vatican – Basilica Sancti Petri. COPYRIGHT!! – May NOT be used WITHOUT my written and expressed PERMISSION!!! if you are gonna leave any critique, then please know what your talking about. / Not just: i dont like this or that. be helpful, dont be negative. Thankyou ♥
nuns parting ways on a scorching Roman day / July 2008
Model: Frankie Valentine
Captured at the Vatican City, Rome. / / Of course I spent some time trying to capture a cool flying pigeon shot!!! / / Peace peeps! :D / / / Art Folders… / / Entire Portfolio / Born From This Earth – Series / Hearts At War / Vehicular works / Architecture / Travel / B&W Photography / Transitional Industrial Utopian Series / Abstract / Models and Fashion Photography
Captured at The Vatican City in Rome, Italy. / / Art Folders… / / Entire Portfolio / Born From This Earth – Series / Hearts At War / Vehicular works / Architecture / Travel / B&W Photography / Transitional Industrial Utopian Series / Abstract / Models and Fashion Photography
Vatican City, Rome, Italy. / / / Art Folders… / / Entire Portfolio / Born From This Earth – Series / Hearts At War / Vehicular works / Architecture / Travel / B&W Photography / Transitional Industrial Utopian Series / Abstract / Models and Fashion Photography
Captured on the way to the Sistine Chapel, Vatican City in Rome, Italy. / / / Art Folders… / / Entire Portfolio / Born From This Earth – Series / Hearts At War / Vehicular works / Architecture / Travel / B&W Photography / Transitional Industrial Utopian Series / Abstract / Models and Fashion Photography
This Helicoidal Stairway is in the Vatican Museum and was designed by Michelangelo. Canon EOS-1Ds MKIII with 17-40mmL / Shutter Speed: 1/20s (handled) / f/4.0 – ISO 800 – 17mm
Nikon D90, 18-105mm Nikon lens / A lot of patience and a little luck with the light went into this. The Vatican, Rome Best viewed large :) Featured in The Woman Photographer, 24/08/09 / Featured in Light and Reflection 1/24, 24/08/09 / Featured in Photography 101, 27/08/09 / Featured in 1620, 12/09/09 / Featured in Teenage Photographers / Featured in Canon Vs Nikon / Challenge winner for your favourite photo, and subsequently group avatar for Nikon D90 Users
The sister image to Contemplation. Nikon D90, nikkor 18-105mm Rome, Italy
I arrived in the Vatican about 10 mins after the Pope had made his appearance… all that remained was thousands of chairs…
The spiral staircase situated in The Vatican, Rome. Canon EOS 5D / Canon 17-40mm L lens / 1/100s exposure @ f5.6
St. Peters Basilica in The Vatican, Rome. Canon EOS 5D / Canon 17-40mm L lens / 1/20s exposure @ f5.6
The double helix staircase at the Vatican Museum, designed by Giuseppe Momo in 1932 with a bronze balustrade which was sculpted by Antonio Maraini in a classical style. This shot was taken with my Canon 30D and 8mm fisheye lens to show as much of the staircase as possible. The image was converted to b&w and levels adjusted.
Columned Pasage – St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City, Rome / MCN: CSRTQ-DTJMS-TWP6A Texture overlay courtesy of SkeletalMess It is thanks to Peter, the first Apostle and the first pope and leader of the Church that the most important basilica in the Christian world, the St. Peter’s Basilica, was built in Rome. Peter was given his name by Jesus because he was destined to be the foundation “stone” (in Italian “Pietra”) on which the church would be built. He was certainly one of the most enterprising of the Apostles to say the least. He was imprisoned, and then miraculously released, following which he left Jerusalem and headed for Rome, the “Capital of the World”, which was the centre of the immense Roman Empire at that time. Here he became bishop and then reigned as the first pope for 25 years. During the fierce persecution of Nero, he was imprisoned with millions of other condemned Christians and died by crucifixion sometime between 64 and 67 AD on the Vatican Hills in the Neronian circle. Rumour has it that he wanted to be put on the cross head-down as he did not feel he was worthy of being crucified in the same manner as Jesus. Among the other tales about Peter is the one that says while he was on the road to his place of execution, or possibly when he ran away from Rome to flee his death, he met Jesus and he posed the fateful question “Domine, quo vadis?” to his Lord and decided to return. It was here in the gigantic complex of the Neronian circle with its palaces, temples and gardens that the execution and burial of one of the most important Apostles of Christ took place. A long veneration of this sacred place soon began, so much so that while the grandiose Roman buildings fell to ruin, a Christian necropolis was built and successively, in the 4th century, Emperor Constantine decided to erect the first basilica in honour of the Saint. Text courtesy of Italy Guides
Exit of the Vatican Museum / Vatican City, Rome 2008
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