Before I began getting paid, before I started falling in love with taking couples portrait sessions, before my Canon EOS, I fell in love with the landscape with the land of Italy. Not only did I love photographing it, but I loved simply looking at it.
Second to, of course, the memories with my husband, the time I spent in Italy was the best time I have ever had. During my junior year of high school, my best friend and I had the chance to go to Italy for ten days with one of our English teachers and about a dozen other students from our school. It was incredible. I saw places and things I never thought that I would see: the Coliseum, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Duomo, the David. These famous tourist attractions, however beautiful, are rather dwarfed compared to the landscape of the country. The photograph above is one that I actually took from a moving bus when we were traveling through Sorrento. No zoom was used- we really were that close to the edge of the cliff. Thankfully, our bus driver was skilled enough to navigate through the dangerous territory; a few minutes down the road, he actually managed to turn our Greyhound bus around in a one-way street. And, if I may add, the one-ways in Sorrento are even narrower than those we see in the U.S.
I digress.
Photographing the streets, people, places, and vast landscapes of Italy was probably where my love for photography actually stemmed, but I was so focused on the trip as a whole that it was put on the back burner of my mind. Too bad. To say my passion for photography started in Italy would have been much more..."romantico."
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