10 Apr
57/365 – “Habemus Papam” nr.29, a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Sony RX1, 35mm f2 Carl Zeiss ISO100, f/5.6, 1/400, raw Tens of thousands gathered today in Saint Peter’s square, under the warm and beautiful sun of the Roman spring, for the third General Audience of Pope Francesco. As usual, the Pope entrance is […]
08 Apr
55/365 – “Habemus Papam” nr.27, a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Sony RX1, 35mm f2 Carl Zeiss ISO100, f/2.8, 1/320, raw A (Southern)-Western European metropolis and capital city such as Rome should, in theory, represent that secular age the Western World is currently considered to be going through. And it surely is if you […]
07 Apr
54/365 – “Habemus Papam” nr.26, a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Sony RX1, 35mm f2 Carl Zeiss ISO100, f/2.8, 1/800, raw It was a special Sunday for Pope Francesco, today. By finally celebrating the Mass at the most important of the four papal basilicas, the one of San Giovanni in Laterano (Saint John in […]
06 Apr
53/365 – “Habemus Papam” nr.25, a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Sony RX1, 35mm f2 Carl Zeiss ISO100, f/2.8, 1/2000, raw, distortions corrected with PTLens To most of the tourists, Rome isn’t solely the city which hosts the Vatican and the Holy See, but also the capital of what was called the “Dolce Vita”, […]
05 Apr
52/365 – “Habemus Papam” nr.24, a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Sony RX1, 35mm f2 Carl Zeiss ISO100, f/3.2, 1/160, raw Most of the fuss about the new Pope and the old one may now be fading-out, but surely the hundreds of tourists constantly queuing to get in Saint Peter’s basilica are still there, […]
04 Apr
51/365 – “Habemus Papam” nr.23, a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. The show must go off. It has to. This square, this city, cannot become a permanent stage for a political/religious event centred around Pope Francesco. Probably someones wish it could, but for the rest of the Roman citizens, and for the majority of […]
03 Apr
50/365 – “Habemus Papam” nr.22, a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Sony RX1, 35mm f2 Carl Zeiss ISO100, f/5, 1/200, raw At his already second “Wednesday General Audience”, Pope Francesco used again the Papa-Mobil to drive through the crowd that, as usual, gathered to see him. Fifty thousand people, quite less than at each […]
02 Apr
49/365 – “Habemus Papam” nr.21, a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Sony RX1, 35mm f2 Carl Zeiss ISO100, f/4, 1/2000, raw New souvenirs arrive every day, here in the shops around Saint Peter’s basilica. New postcards, new posters, new magnets, and, now, new t-shirts. I have to admit that this is the first time […]
01 Apr
48/365 – “Habemus Papam” nr.20, a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Sony RX1, 35mm f2 Carl Zeiss ISO100, f/4, 1/3200, raw More than a million of people between devoted, pilgrims, tourists and curious have visited Saint Peter’s square in the last twenty days. It is an enormous number (higher than the whole population in […]
31 Mar
47/365 – “Habemus Papam” nr.19, a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Sony RX1, 35mm f2 Carl Zeiss ISO100, f/4, 1/3200, raw “Animals greet you, Pope Francesco”. The new Pope keeps working as an attractor of renewing (if not revolutionary) forces, and Saint Peter’s square as the stage where these forces have a chance to […]