Notes: The warm tones of Gargnano’s promenade stood in contrast to the cool colors of the cold Lake Garda. I thought the antique paper overlay could help reconcile the two.

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Notes: I scanned the back side of a page from a book of botanical prints published circa 1830. The scan revealed a composite of the asparagus plant on the front and the stained “shadow” of the image on the opposite page. The paper was identical in color to the wall in which our little sparrow was sitting, so I just had to put them together.

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Notes: This enigmatic image is not a composite. The only hint I’ll give you is it was shot with a lens at 120 mm to flatten perspective a bit.

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Notes: Walking along the Riva degli Schiavoni in Venice, I spotted a building of improbable colors with oddly asymmetrical windows. The streak of “blood” is from a scan of antique paper.

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Notes: Genoa’s medieval quarter is believed to be the largest in Europe. Its warren of winding streets takes you past facades of homes with fabulous, if somewhat faded frescoes sharing space with the family’s laundry. This one seemed to me an appropriate symbol of this working port city, once among the world’s greatest seafaring powers.

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Notes: A morning fog on Tuscany’s Lake Trasimeno burned off just enough to reveal a castle on an island as if the mists of time had slightly parted.

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Notes: Like the other mask shop image, this is not a composite. I was drawn to the window by the angel (with price tag dangling) hovering below the name of the shop, which translates to “new world”.

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