Street Dreams
Sometimes a place won’t leave our subconscious. The alleys and back streets of Tuscany and Umbria are so different from the western US scenes we are used to. The narrow passages and places waiting for crowds either before dawn or late in the evening, seem to stick with us. Add a little time and the vagaries of memory and soon these scenes eek out in our editing and assume their own place in our photographic dreams.
You can click on the images to see them open in a letterbox/separate window. And they are best viewed on larger devices.
A note about the technique. Adobe Photoshop has a set of algorithms called Neural Filters. When combined with our photos, the result can be an interesting (at least to us) mix of photo realism, abstract painting, and other styles that give a different look to an image. A look we feel is akin to the things memory does over time: sometimes subtle changes, sometimes bold highlighting, sometimes muted details. Hope you enjoyed this diversion into the less literal.