4 Agosto 1944

More than seven centuries grew the Borgo Pittiglioso to stunning beauty. Then the Nazis undermined the streets to the Ponte Vecchio, and the Americans blew them up.
Gone forever.
Un altro scempio di guerra.


Sixties Gevaert (?) in the 1938 Kodak620

Then and now 38

 Sometimes it is impossible to find Firenze di Allora. Yes, I did find the Via dei Cavalieri - at least the name. It still is very small and short, and maybe the wall at the left? Or the door over there? Those two stones, perhaps?








There was photoQUELLE in my Praktica; Albinar 28mm.

Tin Pan Alleys

Shanghai in the 1962 Click II

Ilford in the 1956 Contina

High Noon

38° C, and rising.

In the Agfa Click II was Shanghai GP3, Rodinal.
In the Kodak Instamatic was AgfaHDC200, Colortec.

Work

No, of course I was nòt only enjoying the caffè con gelato at Ponte Vecchio, Fior di Panna at La Carraia, or spinaci at Giannino.
I was looking for "Firenze di Allora".
And sometimes even found it!
Here, for instance, La Giustizia, by Francesco Ferrucci del Tadda. And, ladies, you'll find Salvatore Ferragamo nearby, but mind your steps...

1963 Ilford in the 1938 Kodak 620

Shanghai adventure

Like I said below: "every film..." and this one had back paper fog. And dripping, as you can see. And didn't like my green filter.
The rain is nòt their fault.
 I hope.
It's the Van Limburg Festival in Nijmegen, rather nice, actually.

Picturesque

And then, suddenly, I remembered: things like these were hanging in my oculist's waiting-room, decades ago...