{"id":81,"date":"2013-07-09T08:01:14","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T14:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/?p=81"},"modified":"2013-07-29T00:02:32","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T06:02:32","slug":"looking-for-a-new-angle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/?p=81","title":{"rendered":"Looking for a new angle&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just back from a long weekend in Pisa. It was my first visit to the city, but of course I had a <em>pretty good<\/em> (!) idea what to expect. The central area &#8211; the Piazza dei Miracoli &#8211; was more beautiful than I expected, and the Leaning Tower is, well, remarkably non-perpendicular. As ever at such a place, it&#8217;s a fun but basically hopeless challenge to come up with a new photographic angle. Failing that, I followed the usual advice: at an iconic locale, you only need to hint at where you are. My best pic, I think, was this piece of whimsy&#8230; tourists posing for the humorous photo of holding up the tower.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/tower_phil.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/tower_phil.jpg\" alt=\"tower_phil\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-83\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/tower_phil.jpg 400w, https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/tower_phil-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dada did better. With a small sensor Nikon compact low in the grass, she came up with this image than may not be original but was at least new to me!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/tower_dada.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/tower_dada.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-82\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/tower_dada.jpg 450w, https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/tower_dada-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(I tried to replicate this with a DSLR but it can&#8217;t be done&#8230; it really only works with a small camera.)<\/p>\n<p>Photography to one side, Pisa and the nearby towns (Siena and Lucca) were simply wonderful. A great weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just back from a long weekend in Pisa. It was my first visit to the city, but of course I had a pretty good (!) idea what to expect. The central area &#8211; the Piazza dei Miracoli &#8211; was more &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/?p=81\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-locations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}