Italy Precursor: Positano Fave

Here’s a good idea. Take a really steep cliff along the water. And build houses and so forth all the way up.

Such is Positano, Italy. City motto: what goes down, must come up. Impossibly vertical to support the infrastructure of a city it still stands and is beautiful once you get used to the constant elevations. Really quite a bizarre experience. Actually the whole Amalfi Coast is quite an odd and exotic area. But I digress.

Months and weeks have passed since the planning for this trip began. And by “Planning” I mean “I Did Sweet FA While My Wife Developed a Comprehensive Itinerary.” And before you know it we’re at the point where “tomorrow is our last day” so I figured I would bang out an overdue blurb on Positano before turning to Rome and the hangover after the party that is 1) exercise, and 2) editing.

I had originally conceived of a photo of the Positano cliffside where a black and white converted long exposure allowed the clouds to pass in reference to the march of time having little apparent influence on the city. But the place is so damn colorful that I couldn’t go that route – long exposure yes, monochrome no. I also have the ubiquitous evening shots of the homes lit up against azure skies along with the duomo and coast below. But following my Favorite Shot motif I’m sticking with below for two reasons. First, as stated the color is very much a part of this place and so has to stay and even be exaggerated a bit. Secondly, this is the view from our hotel room, which ranks as the best balcony during our travels, so it has sentimental value. The long exposure was captured in comfort with a glass of wine near at hand. No need to hump up or down the curving, slanted streets.

We’re now wrapping up the Rome leg of our trip so I’ll have at some point a hopefully meaningful frame to put up from here and then the fun begins with finishing my overall edit and culling the finals for whatever book I put together. Good luck with that.