2D Photography in a 3D World

March 23, 2009
5:40pm, Train to Florence

One of the many frustrations we have discovered in attempt to photograph the sites is our inability to capture evidence of leaning buildings, of which there are plenty. For example, the second of the Two Towers of Bolog Na is far shorter than the first and leans toward it. Neither form our perch above, nor from the ground below could we convey this characteristic in a snapshot. We have found this to be true of all the leaning towers in Italy and are worried--should we make it to Pisa--that the most famous leaning tower won't be leaning in our photographs.

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Minutes later we infiltrated a university and beheld the sweet honey of Bologna. Streams of young, beautiful, well-dressed women flocked by us, pausing momentarily to eye my mohawk, perhaps, which together with my scraggly beard, blew the cover provided by my stark silence and European nose.