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Fish Eye View

7/13/2014

 
Even though there are about 25 churches, I couldn't seem to find one to attend this morning so I wandered the outskirts of town and followed the old wall for a while.  Siena looks like any other, ancient 400 year old Italian town when you get outside of the 800 year old part!  As I walked, church bells from all 25 rang all at once at 10:30, for about 5 minutes, non-stop.  I think they do that to wake everyone up so no one has an excuse for missing the Sunday tithing plate. 

I dug out my fish-eye lens this morning to play with it while I walked.  The fish-eye lens that I have is an 8mm.  The typical lens on a camera is a 50mm.  A 50 mm doesn't distort what you're looking at while an 8mm bends the image.  The shots below might make you feel a little dizzy, more dizzy than you usually feel when you look at my shots.  But they also let you see a unique perspective.

It's 4:15 pm and the clouds in the photos from this morning are in production mode so I came home to wait out the rain and eat lunch.

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