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November 2006

November 01, 2006

Publication of the Month: Irlanda - bellezza terribile in QUI TOURING (Italy)

Qui Touring, published by Touring Club Italiano and Italy's largest travel magazine, selected exactly those photos that photographer Mick Palarczyk found most striking. The cathedral of old beach trees on the cover, pictured during a drizzle, shows that you don't always need beautiful weather to take a beautiful photograph. With the non-intrusive lay-out and maize-yellow as supporting colour - which doesn't show in the photo - Qui Touring sets quite an example in cover design. The lane of trees returns in the opening spread. It's a different shot, where the hiker is even smaller amidst the giants that are as alive as they are old. Apparently it was this that led the editor to the title.

To read excerps of Jeannette van Ditzhuijzen's supporting text, please click here.

Picture of the Month: Through the Eyes of a Saint

A child enjoys the view from the back of a giant. The Colosso di San Carlone from 1698, a huge copper statue of a canonized member of the powerful Borromeo family, overlooks the slopes along the Lago Maggiore near Arona in Italy, and blesses the landscape. As an ordinary mortal you can view the world through his holy eyes if you climb the narrow stairs leading up into his head. (Photos Paul Smit).


These photos are part of the feature Lago Maggiore.