these are nice shots... only a little advice... keep your eyes on the falling lines and on the optical distortion...

yep :) Right, this is indeed a wonderful advice :) I always get sort of vertigo when I see the pics I take.. :P sometimes is something I want to obtain.. but here it wasn't really :) Ty :)

thank you for tellin me i am getting a bit better. Itvwould be sad otherwise, as I am trying to learn from you all great people here :) The buildings around the Duomo are offices of the Curia, an hospital and the placement for Healthy calls ;) In a way, I hope to never being able to take upper shots :P :P :P But I get what you mean :)I will go to the U2 pub in the plaza :) Maybe if I am lucky I'll impact in Bono. He's often in Florence, and you know when some u2 member is there cos the pub closes unless you're not signed up to their fanclub (that's the official fanclub presidency place ::))

Wonderful architecture..... the vertical perspective is something that can be fixed in PS... barring that they do make special lenses for this sort of photograpy...of course these lenses do not come cheap.

Or you could check out Misha's tutorial on correcting perspectives. ;-) (it's in the resource center tutorial section, in case any one is wondering what i'm talking about) Btw, these are amazing structures! Thanks for sharing them, Meli! :-) (*

hi, more photos of italy!!...this REALLY makes me want to visit there... :-) your photos are coming along nicely except for the perspective problem. the perspective adjustment in ps (as mentioned above) is a good work around. also, maybe picking out details for close-up shots could be another approach, but that depends on what you were trying to convey with the photos. i like #2 because of the almost graphical quality to it (would be better when the perspective problem is sorted). with #3 i'm not sure of the little punto there...on the one hand i like it because it contrasts with the large number of people (the opposite of what you normally see in largee cities), on the other, it is a distraction as i find my eye drawn to the white.

thank you all for the inputs. I will try to work out the persepctive stuff... the IXUS itself consent some work on it :) so I will just have to experiment more :) Yeah the detailing is one of the approach I could choose.. but I wanted before to give you all a complete image before dwelling into detailes.. :) so that in a way.. you can literally follow the place like you could be tourists there :)