Italian Landscapes

Beautiful compositions. I wonder when the next flight to Italy is?

WOW....thanks a lot guys...I'm very happy you liked!

Thanks a lot all!

Bye,
Felix.

those are beautiful, thank you for sharing

Looks more like Switzerland. Very nice.

Lovely set. 3,4,5 would be my favorites.

mumbles wrote in post #10723049
Looks more like Switzerland. Very nice.

You do know that Italy is bordered by Austria to the Northeast and Switzerland to the Northwest? The Dolomites are in the North of Italy. There is a very strong influence of Germanic styles and language in this part of the country.

I was over there for last year's 100th Giro d'Italia. We traveled with, ahead, behind and in the race for about 17 days covering the race for Universal Sports. The best parts of the experience were in the North of Italy. The Dolomites are amazingly beautiful! It's really hard to take a bad picture of them. I had a funny experience in this area. The first time I had pizza was in a small town on the Italian/Austrian boarder. I asked the woman who was serving us how far Austria was from where we were. She paused then asked me to come to the front door of the restaurant. She then pointed to a large rock on the side of the road and she simply said, "There is Austria." About 200 yards away from where I sat and ate pizza for the first time in Italy. It was stunningly delicious!!

Here's some of my images from My trip to Italy if you are interested:

http://www.flickr.com …g/sets/72157622​954528184/

That set is by no means a complete account of my travels in Italy. I took well over 1200 images while we toured the Italian country side and met some amazing people, ate wonderful food and drank (way too much) some killer wine! I really need to add some more to that set. I so wanted to got back for this years Giro, but that wasn't going to happen. Oh well.

I really love you images of your spectaular country! Really well done. Italy has so much to offer photographicly, it's just almost too much!

ChasWG wrote in post #10723681
http://www.flickr.com …g/sets/72157622​954528184/

I really love you images of your spectaular country! Really well done. Italy has so much to offer photographicly, it's just almost too much!

Thanks ChaWG for you visit and comment.
I visit your Flickr...great images!

Hope to see you in Italy

Bye,
Felix.

ChasWG wrote in post #10723681
I had a funny experience in this area. The first time I had pizza was in a small town on the Italian/Austrian boarder. I asked the woman who was serving us how far Austria was from where we were. She paused then asked me to come to the front door of the restaurant. She then pointed to a large rock on the side of the road and she simply said, "There is Austria." About 200 yards away from where I sat and ate pizza for the first time in Italy. It was stunningly delicious!!

I had a similar experience driving thru the Dolomites on our way to Slovenia (via 9 kms of Austrian road or something). We stopped at an AutoGrill mini market/gas station and one girl working the counter was Austrian and speaking German and the other was Italian, speaking Italian

We were like "well must be close to Austria" - and 5 minutes later we were passing the border... good times