Villa Imperiale sign and roof

photo: Malcolm Aslett

What if I took photographs from the information sign to the mosaics and up to the glass roof? That was the thinking behind it. Information boards are avoided in tourist photographs. In the same way we try to take our shots of famous places without anyone else in but us, as if we owned the place. It's a silly thing to think and do but we do it. The times I've had to stand and wait while Fanny and Manny take their photo of Manny and Fanny in front of a duomo door as if it were all crucial police evidence, requiring a scene that is uncontaminated by other tourists. This joiner, by the way, is similar to that detective's note book I think. Shorthand visual notes of the essentials in front of me as it occurs to me.