Sometimes on a vacation you can be in such a rush to take photos of everything that you neglect to stop and observe the subtle things that are always around you. My experience in Italy taught me to appreciate these more mundane moments: whether it was a field I drove by out the window of the car, an interesting wall with incredible details and vivid textures, a vegetable stand with a wonderful rustic feel, the soft muted colors of a building on the river at dusk, the un-measured movement of people and animals in their environment, a lonely bench in front of a graphic wall that gave me a nostalgic feeling, a lonely Vespa scooter keeping a perfect composition parked outside a window in Siena, or the lights outside the Coliseum at night , (when even though I had been late and missed a chance to view its inside, it still lent me its radiance and magnitude from afar).
