Crowded houses, a photo from Palermo, Sicily

Photographer's Note

Prizzi is a hill town of the Palermo province, (about 80 km. from Palermo city), standing 966 m. on a hill in proximity to the Prizzi Mount in the upper valley of the River Sosio, with a fine view over the Sosio and Vicaria valleys.
The present town is of Norman origin and counts nearly 7,000 inhabitants. Its narrow streets, alleys and stairways reveal a typical medieval layout.
It is bordered by the two cities of Corleone and Palazzo Adriano (the last, used as the scene of the famous film "Cinema Paradisso" who won an "Oscar" in Hollywood as the best foreign language film in 1989).
When you arrive to the village of Prizzi, you can see a beautiful view of the crowded houses with its roofs, as you see in the photo.

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MiguelP (14464) 2005-01-17 15:22

Hola Jaume... Me gusta mucho, pero mucho mucho la composición de esta foto. Va al grano. Lo que te importaba eran las casas. Quizá yo les daría algo más de contraste, pero es algo secundario. Importa mucho la celosía de lineas que se entraman. Muy curiosa, Jaume.

PD: El sábado pasado estuvimos con Ángel y Sonia en Ciudad Real. Un abrazo de su parte.

anakin (2775) 2005-01-17 16:18

Italia un lugar unico el cual aconsejo visitar.Buena toma donde nos enseñas parte de lo que es Palermo.Has buscado una buena composicion y a su vez un interesante desnivel de casas.
Well done

karina (1109) 2005-01-17 19:18

This is a cool shot, visually all the boxes appear to fit together so well. Great composition and subject I must say.

Hayri_CALISKAN (934) 2005-01-19 7:43

Very nice cityscape with great angle of shot. The light is alitle bit too hight. Anyway I like it.
Regards, Hayri.

kLe (2196) 2005-01-20 15:30

Good one, Jaume. If you look a while to these walls and roofs you get an impression of false perspective like in those pictures in which you do not know it the stairs are going up or down.
I like this kind of photos too with geometric forms and textures.
In this one I would add a little more colour saturation.
Saluts, Clemente.

ChristianS (2997) 2005-01-20 15:51

Very nice photo, Jaume and a nice perspective. I like the almost chaotic arrangement of these lovely old houses. Well captured!

Michael_Gan (2776) 2005-01-21 5:06

Hola Jaume! Very nice overview of the town. The thumbnail looks almost like an impressionistic painting, because of the soft colours and shapes. The full-size picture however loses this "painting-look", but reveals more interesting details. Good work.

Felip (3907) 2008-06-12 8:01

Com anem Jaume?
I mirant aquesta imatge, la primera cosa que se m'acut es...I com troba un casa seva?, I quan un arriba una mica...entonat?, Mare de Deu no vull ni pensar-ho, es clar que tot te una ventatja i tractant-se de Palermo, deu ser mes facil amagar-se dels qui tothom sabem...
Bon ull

Felip