Reflections

It has been a while since I haven't post here anything... 

How many things has happened since 2012... 

In 2013 I moved in with Alessandro, in 2016 I finished my PhD and... we got married last December. 

In this continuous hustle and bustle I had little time for photography. 

I kept taking some black and white photographs with my Mamiya but in the meantime my scanner became obsolete so I can't share anything with you. 

I hope to buy a new scanner next year, so my black and white photography will return here. 

But... 

For our wedding my lovely parents-in-law gave us a really great brand new digital camera - Olympus OM-D E-M10II. So since last December I am having fun with it. 

And here for you my first picture I really like. It was taken in Amsterdam, in the museum of the house church called Our Lord in the Attic. I was there to prepare for a tour I will run next year focused on Dutch painting. 

This beautiful chandelier brings to my mind paintings by Dutch and Flemish masters, always so attentive towards the details and fascinated by beautiful objects and furniture. When one looks at their art, it almost seams that the artists had fun in painting all the reflections of windows and light on various objects represented in their images. 

I have in mind for example Jan Van Eyck's portrait of Arnolfini family kept today in the National Gallery in Lodon with this unique detail of reflection painted in the mirror behind the couple. 

Oh, I love the Northern artists! 

Chandelier, Our Lord in the Attic, Amsterdam, September 2018.