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Sculpture, Florence #3

Ornate pillar and wall frescoes in the Pitti Palace, Florence, Italy

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Tired out after a hard day's culture viewing around Florence's Pitti Palace, I took my ease on a convenient bench, only to be confronted by this beautifully detailed, ornate piller, backed by wonderfully detailed wall frescoes just tucked away in the corner of a courtyard.

So while Liz checked out the antiquities in an adjacent gallery, I took a few photos of the scene in front of me, trying out various composotions so see which arrangement of pillar and walls worked the best.

In the end this symmetrical arrangement pleased me the most, so here it is.

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Filename - florence sculpture 03.jpg

Camera - Canon EOS 5D

Lens - 24-105mm zoom @ 24mm

Exposure - 1/13sec @ f5.6, ISO400

Location - Florence, Italy

This image - 533x800px JPEG

Conversion - ACR & PS-CS2

Comments - Lens stabilisation used to prevent blur with hand held exposure.