HIIIIIIIIIIIIIII GANG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ooooh, how nice it feels to be back!!! Rome was such an amazing town...city....whatever the difference is. Overwhelming actually seeing all those statues and monuments. I honestly got rather sick of photographing stone-people after a while so i started pointing my lens at real folks with an attempt to do a "People of Rome-series" ala Pascale...but my God i suck, LOL.

Anyway....i got up at 4am this morning after had 2 hours of sleep (some stupid dad had locked his 5 year old son out from the hotel room next to ours...and he screamed "papi papi" for over an over before daddy let him in...sigh...2am that was) and then 17 hours of travelling by plane, train and car i finally arrived home....to the coooold wintry sweden. And i couldnt wait to get on to see yall.

I havent looked through all the 400 shots i took...but the the thumb of this one caught my eye, so i thought i would give ya a little preview of what to come. Zoomed to the max with no tripod...im surprised it came out this "sharp"....guess im quite a steady guy even after a couple of birra and grappa...hehe.

Better crawl to bed now.

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Super shot Andreas - Welcome Back :)

Thank you Richard!!! #:o)

Beautiful shot Andreas!If this is just a preview,I look forward to the whole show.Welcome back! LOL For the record,"Veni,vidi,vici" is "I came,I saw,I conquered".It's something I believe Caesar said.So I guess you 'conquered' Rome.LOL. Have a great night.

Du kom, du s, Du segrade... LOL!!! Did U frightened the Italian people away? Hyberis is another Wold 4 storhetsvansinne ;) Great shot youre little puss gurka :)

I got the opportunity to see Rome in the early 70,s. At the time i had a 20 year old Ansco 35mm camera. I don't remember the model number. It looked ancient even then, lol.It had a large bellows that opened out of the front when you extended the lens for a shot (either 12 or 14 shots per roll). It had been my fathers and he gave it to me when i went into the service. I took it all over Europe for 4 years and was thrilled with it. I bought a very good Pentax shortly after the Rome trip. I think the Ansco is in a box somewhere here but i long ago gave the Pentax to someone who appreciated it more than me. All i have left to remind me of my trip to Rome is a few albums full of old faded prints. So far i have had no success with scanning them to try and save them. The quality is just beyond easy repair i fear. I hope you have better luck with long term storage. I assume digital techniques of today will insure that. I know you must have enjoyed the trip. It is a beautiful city and just chock full of history and life. I am looking forward to seeing your postings of the trip. I am pulling out my old pics so i can see if we were at the same places but at different times, lol.

I'm glad you're back Andreas, it's very quiet here without you, sounds like you had a great trip!! Looking forward to seeing your photos!!! Hopefully you'll have a few days before you go back to work!!!! welcome back my friend... Akemi ;)

welcome back, Andreas!! and what a beautiful capture!!! I wish i could have been there to see all that incredible architecture and experience the culture!! and that moon is gorgeous!!!!! looking forward to seeing more! :)

"I came, I saw, I conquered" -encynlopedia stiking with the moon ...WB Andreas ;]

AWWW!!!! Thank you!!! LOL@Akemi....im gonna take that as a good thing okay? #;o) I agree Lee....Rome is indeed a very beautiful city. The most amazing place was that old Roma....Forum something. That was really wicked!!! And of course the Colosseum....but a few negative things about Rome: 1. CROOOOOWDED!!!! We were there off season and it was still soooooo many people there. The line into the Vatican was 1.5 miles long!!! 2. EXPENSIIIIIVE!!!! My God, no wonder the Vatican has so much money. They bled you dry for every little thing. 3. STUPID RULEEEES!!! When entering the Vatican and church of St.Petrus....they had the same security checks as at the airport. And for some reason you werent allowed to bring inside your tripod. And with quite poor light....not all shots came out good i can assure you...sigh. But other than those things.....IT`S AMAZING!!!! Ooooh Sheila, you have no idea how really impressive all that architecture really is. I used to be quite proud over the fact that our chuch is Swedens most beautiful one...but having seen the ones in Rome....and especially St.Peters...or Petrus or how the international name for it is.....our church....SUCK!!!! I swear to God, its not bigger than the closets of those in Rome. And the 16th chapel...OH MY GOD!!!!! One man....4 years....upside down....WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!!!!!! Oooops...bla bla bla....better get back to browsing through my photos to see if any came out okay. See ya! #:O)

Oh....hi Cindy, Marlene and Modesty by the way, LOL. #:oP I knew it was something like that....i have been reading alot of Asterix in my days, LOL.

:)
welcome back!
beautiful capture with that moon! waitin' for the next shots!
hope that your trip in rome was wonderful!
you are very lucky... rome may go underwater due to the near river:( but maybe not!

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HUH? REALLY? It did rain quite alot when we were there though....it was only the first day that there was sunshine. Theres a river nearby? Sigh...where was i???? Better google for news. Thanks May. #:O)

LMAO!!!! You edited it huh? Phew....that saved me alot of pointless googling, LOL.

i was wake up eary (and sleep not too early)... first link on my browser... www.tgcom.it... it's a national italian web newspaper ... i've read wrong the first title... :( but a lot of pain about this event! in my lands... (north-east italy-venice zone) a lot of rain has fall in these days!

I haven't been active in the forums here earlier, but I've noticed that when Andreas is back, they're glowing...LOL!! Welcome back....or should I say Vkommen tillbaka? ;) Hope you had a great time :) Oh...and the difference between city and town would be the size of it I believe. And Rome is a city :p Now...get all those piccies sorted out and UPLOAD THEM...hehehe

AW!!! Tack Christa....du alldeles f snl. #:O) Who are glowing by the way??? My radio-active emoticons you mean? LOL. Oh...so a city is bigger huh? Kinda like a "by" compared to a "socken", LOL. Ooops...better not linger here and ramble when i should be sorting out my shots. Ta da....or as the italiens say....arrivarderci....feel free to spellcheck me on that one May. #;O)

The forums are glowing, silly :p Not your emoticons :D They're nice too...but not really the same thing.

Welcome back and gorgeous shot. I can't wait to see your other 399 images. ;]

Heeee's baaaaaaaack... A great start to your return. Grazie.