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1. ^#1

   I’m glad you enjoyed your stay in Italy. Very nice Photos indeed.
   As a european, I’m always a little bit proud, when people from the states travelling over the big pond and like our culture, our cities and everything europe has to offer. Europe is such a nice place, so many countries, so many different perspectivs……

   Ralph on June 24th, 2008 at 4:11 am
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   Scott,
   Thanks for the glimpse at some wonderful shots. I also use the 18-200 for those “one lens” travel situations. Just as a matter of interest, do you have a feel for how much of the time you used it at the wide angle end and how much at the tele end? Many of the shots here look to be mid to long tele. Just wondered if that’s representative.

   Simon on June 24th, 2008 at 5:06 am
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   amazing collection .. it inspired me to do some photography ,, thank you

   Khalid AlHaqqan on June 24th, 2008 at 7:19 am
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   I’m liking ‘Miss March’ =)
   No seriously, good stuff Scott. I think my fave has to be the Sept 09 where you framed the landscape with the cool doors. Great idea!

   Cholas on June 24th, 2008 at 9:04 am
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   Hi Scott,

   As always, your photos are awe-inspiring. However, what got me to writing this note is the calendar idea. As it happens, my family is also going to Italy (in the fall). I’d like to come back and put my favorites into a calendar that I can then print for Xmas gifts. If you have ideas for good calendar software, I’d sure like to know them. I did a brief search and found a lot of vendors, but I’d love to see reviews (and get NAPP discounts!)

   Thanks, Steve

   Steve Kalman on June 24th, 2008 at 9:15 am
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   1)Tripod?
   2) How happy are you with sharpness?…can’t tell online. Would you be happy with 11 x 16?

   Thanks for your superlative blog! It’s a bright spot in my day.

   Paul Barcewicz on June 24th, 2008 at 10:05 am
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   Great images and much jealousy.

   Jim Gill on June 24th, 2008 at 11:04 am
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   Fantastic Images. I’m just left thinking, “why didn’t I think of that?” I was in the same place, all the same things surrounding me, I didn’t see it. Seeing these is a real learning opportunity for me. Thanks for sharing.

   Rick Gutierrez on June 24th, 2008 at 11:36 am
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   Hi Scott,

   The photographs of food look fantastic! (yummy)
   Did the class you took a few weeks back help? How did it help?
   Any technical tips for all of us out there who get to eat good looking food sometimes but come up with lame shots?

   Merci,
   Julien

   Julien on June 24th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
10. ^#10

    I agree with Steve. Love the ideas of a calendar. Is there a Blurb for calendars I wonder. Would love to see some reviews.

    Great images.

    Ian Brodie on June 24th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
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    I love your images as well. Did you take any time to relax?!

    I’m also interested in the calendar you used. Was that just made from calendar images or is it a calendar making program?

    Also… while I’m on the questions… you mention in another blog entry or maybe it was a video interview, a good-for-the-money tripod for under $100. Can you tell us which one that is?

    Dave Aldrich on June 24th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
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    Ooh very nice! I love those place in Liguria, and I think that you manage to capture nicely the essence, with a personal feel but without exceeding with the “american guy in italy” look
    I also see that you managed to eat some classy things but also (and that’s more important) the world’s finest Focaccia™.
    Looking forward to the next part!

    Ciao

    Agos on June 24th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
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    Scott, did you take a tripod with you on this wonderful trip? I really can’t tell if any of your shots were hand-held or all of them first set up on a tripod?
    We are going to Sweden this summer, and your answer would be so helpful to me in getting the types of shots you would like!

    Samantha Peers on June 24th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
14. ^#14

    I make calendars each year for some of my relatives. They’ve been a hit so far and people look forward to them (at least I see them hanging on the wall when I visit!). I have tried a few services and my favorite so far is the Apple calendars created with iPhoto. They use a nice heavy paper and the pages flip up easy in the spiral. I used Kodak’s service one year and spiral was not big enough so the pages got bunched up in the spiral.

    I really wish that Lightroom would add the ability to create media (calendars, books, etc.) like iPhoto and Aperture have.

    Mike Zupan on June 24th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
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    I’m curious about the tripod too. Are there tripod police waiting in the shadows to pounce on you in Italy like they are here in the States?

    Mike Zupan on June 24th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
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    I too love the food shots! Maybe it’s just close to dinner time and I’m hungry? Did you take those straight with the 18-200 or use the Canon 500D or some other closeup accessory? Related question: natural light, D300 pop-up, or SB800 used?

    Your eye for photos inspires me to keep looking at things differently and is definitely helping me become a better photog in the process. Keep up the inspiration, your blog is a the top of my list everyday!

    Doug Miller on June 24th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
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    I find the distortion hilarious in the September image of the window frame. I was seriously considering the 18-200 for a very long time, but have decided to stay away. I’m opting for the Tamron 17-50 instead.

    As an architecture student distortion would be seriously distracting, and a faster lens is always a plus Regardless the convenience, I’d find it better to have a faster, cheaper, less distortion prone lens with less range than one that necessitated work in photoshop.

    Sure this is just me thinking about shooting orthogonal buildings, but it’s something worth noting.

    Sam Ludwig on June 24th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
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    I work in Portofino on a yacht. One of the reasons I settled down here after years of being a sea gypsy is the colors here in Italy. I just bought a D300 and learning about photography. You can check out my website which will be filled with photo’s from Portofino.
    It’s funny, the shot from the wooden boat “Gio”, I took exactly the same shot a few days ago, here is the proof: http://antonputtemans.com/index.php?showimage=250

    Anton Puttemans on June 25th, 2008 at 10:28 am
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    Well Scott you have come up with the business again, splendid images. Question to you. From where tdo you obtain the calendar templates are they Mac specific?

    From Derbyshire UK

    Barry on June 25th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
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    Scott,

    I enjoyed your photos of Italy. We were in Italy on vacation last year and spent a few days around Portofino. I was surprised to see an image of the same rowboat “Gio” that I photographed last year. My image is on my web site in the travel section.

    Larry on June 25th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
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    Thanks scott for these lovely shot

    but can u tell me what plugins u are using for posting your photos.. it is very COOOL

    Osama on June 26th, 2008 at 7:20 am
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    Hi Osama,

    Regarding the plug-in used to show the photos, I believe that it is the lightbox plugin:
    http://www.4mj.it/lightbox-js-v20-wordpress/

    If you have a Wordpress blog (http://wordpress.org/), its super easy to setup and it does look very cool (I have been using it on my blog after seeing it in action on Scott’s ).

    Cheers,
    Julien

    Julien on June 26th, 2008 at 8:40 pm

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