The Internet is so fucking cool.  Today a lady from a publishing company sent me a message on Flickr.  Her company (Arcturus Publishing) is going to be putting out a book on the history of architecture.  She saw one of my photos on Flickr and asked permission to use it in the book.  I’ll get a credit too (no money though, that’s why publishers spend so much time trolling through Flickr and other similar sites).  I took it during my day trip to the Villa d’Este in Tivoli.  Of the many fountains there, this is most certainly the most well-known and the most ostentatious.

The underlying message here is that the photo is pretty boring.  It’s in focus, the subject is in the center of the frame, it was taken on a sunny day with no shadows.  I take a lot of photos like this when I travel (though I also like to think I take lots of interesting ones too).  I did a lot of waiting for people to get out of my frame when I was in Italy.  I wasn’t there during the high tourism season, so it could’ve been worse.  I’ve gotten better about that recently.  I guess I’m not content with the millions of photos I’ve already seen in guidebooks and history books, so I need some of my own.

But I don’t even care if that’s in the subtext.  Now a significant number of people are going to be looking at one of my photos, and perhaps some will be inspired to travel to Tivoli to see that monstrosity.  Obviously the subject does most of the grunt work, but I think that’s pretty neat.  I still captured it.