Kees' photos with the keyword: ravenna

We’ve stayed for a week in crowded Italian towns, drove around in Italy some 900km, and I diligently observed the traffic while my companions visited museums and churches. Yet –and I’m aware it’s hard to believe– this is the only new Fiat Cinquecento I saw...

There’s a cue at the entrance of San Vitale and the mausoleum of Galla Placidia. That gives me some leisure to finish the third part of my big phantasy novel. It is basically about the struggle between Good and Evil. There’s a lot of magic in it, and lengthy dialogues in the Language of Yore (perfunctorily translated in footnotes), and names you’ll never manage to pronounce right, and Earth Monsters who willingly serve the Bad King and who, eventually, must be defeated. The hero is an adolescent dwarf who, in the course of the story, grows to manhood, and learns to ride elves with pointed ears. Well, I’m reluctant to betray too much; buy it as soon as it reaches your bookstore. Once it is completed, there will be twelve volumes of at least 600 pages each. This is something I’ve learned from Joanne Rowling: never say there’ll only be seven volumes –that’s asking for trouble.

The most complicated assignments I get as a photographer come from my wife. We spent one day at Ravenna, about 75km from Ferrara. One of Ravenna’s highlights is the ivory throne of bishop Maximian (6th C. AD), in the Episcopal Museum. Very dark, and the scanty light was reflected by the perspex case in which it was exhibited. I shot some fifteen pictures of it. This is one of my better efforts: the panel shows Christ entering Jerusalem.