KAPOW!

Hi guys, my name is Alex and I'm taking this golden opportunity to jump on the blogging bandwagon. This introduction is totally irrelevant because, to be fair, most of the people who are reading probably already know who I am, but I'm planning ahead for my eventual rise to super-stardom. 

A couple of weeks ago we went on a trip to Rome. We saw some museums, some statues, some fountains, and a whole lot of churches. Seriously, do you know how many churches there are in Rome?

A whole lot, that's how many. 

So I thought I'd kick this off by posting some of the slightly more remarkable photos from that trip.  

That is one peculiar sculpture. It almost looks like a female figure, and I found it outside a church that had been co-opted for a musical performance, so maybe it's related to the performing arts somehow. 

I don't know what the hell this one is, but it's pretty freakin' awesome, so I like it. I don't know whether this is just my camera projecting colours that maybe aren't really there, but I love the interplay of the orange light, the cold blue shadows, and the warmth of the brick building face. 

The Romans were innovative in their use of light - here's a big old skylight set into the top of a dome, giving this really nice, even lighting to everything in the room. It was amazing the lengths they would go to to get natural light into their buildings, whereas in my flat, the corridor has no windows in it, and the flats themselves only have small windows.

I just thought it was cool that a fully-clothed woman was being fawned over by scantily clad men in this statue, which is the EXACT OPPOSITE of pretty much every similar image in pop culture. 

And this pigeon has gotta be feeling like a total baller as he's just chilling out on the head of this statue. I mean, look at that guy. He is so proud of himself right now.

That's it for now. I'll put some of my own work up a little later on.