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Florence above the roofs

The Duomo up close, with Florence spreading out to the hills behind it.

The tiled dome of Florence Cathedral fills the foreground above the city's terracotta roofs and distant hills.
The tiled dome of Florence Cathedral fills the foreground above the city's terracotta roofs and distant hills. Florence, Italy

Field note

Why I kept it.

From this height there was no way to fit Florence into a tidy postcard view. The dome dominates the frame, which is roughly how it felt standing beside it.

Past that, the city becomes a dense surface of terracotta roofs, streets and stone. I kept the frame because it shows the scale of the building and the continuity of everything around it.