When Chris and I go to Verona, we often will walk along the Adige River. While I usually take photos as we walk, I never seem to get around to doing anything with them, since I don’t know what all the buildings are that you can see from the walk and I never find the time to look it up.
Which is still true today. However, I decided to go ahead and post of a few photos from that area, just to give you a taste of what it looks like to walk along the Adige River in Verona. I haven’t put captions on the photos, so here’s your guide to what you’ll see before you start your “walk”:
- First, we have a shot of the Castelvecchio bridge, taken from the next bridge down. That’s just to orient you, as the next couple of photos are taken while standing on the bridge, looking out over the far side of the bridge.
- In those photos you’ll see the San Zeno cathedral. San Zeno is the patron saint of Verona, but the cathedral is not in the center of town, so we hardly ever walk over there, as we usually stay in the center of town.
- Then I’ve included more views of the Castelvecchio bridge that are similar to the first photo, but show different variations on the intensity of the colors and clouds in the sky
- Next come a few photos that show you the scene as you walk along another part of pathway along the Adige River.
- The final two images are what happens when your photographer decides to add a touch of a drama to a photo of that photogenic Castelvecchio bridge. The dramatic touches come from playing in my digital darkroom with brightness and contrast settings. In reality that day, the sky was actually a pretty mundane white/gray. But by tweaking the contrast and brightness in various — and ever more complicated — ways , I achieve the variation in the clouds and sky you see in those last photos.
Enjoy.
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- Looking toward the Castelvecchio Bridge
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- View of San Zeno through the bridge ramparts
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- View of San Zeno through the bridge ramparts – detail
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- Arco dei Gavi (Roman Arch)
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- Looking toward Castelvecchio Bridge
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- Another view, same bridge
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- Yet another view, same bridge
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- Walking along the other side of the Adige
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- Same hillside as in the previous photo, better photo of the bridge below
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- Another view of Castelvecchio bridge
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- Castelvecchio Bridge with a touch of drama
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- Another dramatic take on that bridge
I liked the picture of the two giant sides of the rampart and I liked the interesting close-up of the church spire in-between the ramparts but my favorite picture was the fifth picture in your line-up. It was not easy choosing that one because I liked your very first picture a lot. However, by comparing them again and again with the others, I realized that I did like a panoramic shot of the bridge with both banks of the river and finally I liked the bridge a little bit bigger than the far-away picture #1 had it! I like these challenges with a group of your pictures!
I agree, Stan — I like #5 best. Something about the way the greenery on the left shows up.
On my one visit to Verona, we went to San Zeno– I remember we were having trouble figuring out how to get to it, asked someone, and he said to follow him (in his car) — he’d show us the way. A little hair-raising, as one male Italian driver raced after another, but well worth it was it was a church unlike any other I’d seen.
Thanks, it’s always fun to get feedback on the photos! Dovie, glad to hear you survived your adventure to reach San Zeno. It is possible to walk there from the center – I think we managed with a minimum of wrong turns. 😉 However, it’s just far enough away that it’s either too hot or too cold, but we keep meaning to go back, as we didn’t have much time to look around before they closed for the lunch “pause” that day.