My Italy gallery is awakening. I have thousands of slides, and as I have some time on my hands and bought a new scanner I decided to show some. This is the first of, hopefully, many. A lot of these pictures are 30-some years old, as I have been travelling in Turkey almost exclusively for the last quarter of a century. I do not intend to provide as many captions on the Turkey site, and you have to give me some leeway for the quality: I almost only used (harsh) Kodachrome, some Ektachrome, in low ISO’s and with decent but not top-notch lenses on my Nikon F3 or Nikkormats. So I corrected a lot, used extensive sharpening and may have made mistakes in the orientation of some pictures. On the other hand, I travelled in a time when tourism hadn’t exploded and photography was relatively easy.

I start with the Bargello museum in Florence. Pictures from elsewhere will appear in the weeks to come. The whole project will last well over a year.