Yes, I also think one. If you met that man, he was probably taking the opposite direction. I like your eye - is it yours ? Gitte

Alpha, If you have the opportunity to go to Italy, you should definately do it ! It was once my dream to live there, but moving further and further southwards, I stopped in Paris ....

Alpha, This woman looks like a gipsy beggar woman to me. She doesn't seem to be an unhappy person - she looks much more like a smart person to me. She reminds me a bit of the witch in "Snowwhite". I wouldn't be surprised if when the night falls, that she would stand upright and have no need for her stick anymore. Judging from her skin - particularly the arms, I don't think she is a very old person. I think that she has just found a nice spot in a street of Florence where the tourists are generous. I like the way she's sort of isolated from the surrounding people too.

Nice photos. The first one is a bit out of focus as you say, but not all over the place as far as I can see. Is it because you used a too big aperture ? I'm trying to understand these things myself .... The horse looks quite alright to me. I think this is a difficult shot - also because of the brightness at the bottom. How to do to get everything right in a situation like this ? What did you use ?

I prefer short # 1 too, but they are all three nice. The giant story is cute :-). Gitte

Thanks for the warm welcome, everybody :-) I'm sure, I'll feel comfortable here ! The challenges seem to be very interesting and a good opportunity for me to make exercises with things I haven't tried yet, so I'll most likely participate. Gitte

I like the big version best. I thought it was a plane or a car - what is it really ? The big version is already a very close-up image and here you can at least have a guess what it is which you can't in the cropped version - at least I can't .... It's just three letters floating in the sky. In the big version there is context enough to have a guess about what it is. I like the green and blues together too. Gitte