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Yay, my new large-format printer has arrived, it's set up, and it's beautiful!
Naturally, yesterday the price was lowered by 350€.
My excitement (temporarily) went from 🤩🥳💃🏻 to 🤬.

The good news? I can now start selling limited edition fine art prints of my photography work! Shop development underway.

Meanwhile, here's a shot from Cortona, Italy.

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Photograph of a quintessential historic Tuscan street scene, under a sliver of a late-afternoon blue sky. The scene featuring a renaissance-era building with yellow walls—large hewn stones edging the doors and windows—now used as an indoor-outdoor restaurant. Ten or eleven stone steps lead past an illuminated menu, up to a narrow outdoor terrace, with elegant white-clothed tables shaded by wide cream-colored umbrellas. There are many flowering potted plants (in whites, yellows, reds and magentas), creeping vines, and squash, pumpkins and gourds picturesquely lining both sides of the stairs. A leaning bike at the bottom—edging the street’s large cobblestones—is also filled with green plants. Decorative wrought iron grills, with scroll-work designs, adorn a window and the top of the door frame, and warmly lit hanging lanterns are suspended from more curved iron, at the edge of the terrace.

It's the All Saints day after Halloween public holiday here in today. Some Italians are taking the next two days off too, as is this tooter who's off to Lumana in the Le Marche region for a few days. Good food and wines await! I hope the weather will be kind but it is November.

“In , , , , the and the , authorities have responded to climate protests with mass arrests, the passing of draconian new laws, the imposing of severe sentences for non-violent protests and the labelling of activists as hooligans, saboteurs or eco-terrorists. “


Human rights experts warn against European crackdown on protesters | Environmental activism | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/12/human-rights-experts-warn-against-european-crackdown-on-climate-protesters