https://vivriccardo.com/ 2026-08-08 monthly 1.0 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/rome-festa-della-repubblica.jpg Rome, Italy — Three colours breathed across the sky, gone before they fall Aerobatic formation trailing tricolour smoke over Rome https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/vatican-sunset.jpg?r=2 Vatican City — The sky catches fire and the gulls take the long way home over Saint Peter's Gulls silhouetted against a fiery sunset sky above St Peter's Basilica, Vatican City https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/pompeii-via.jpg Pompeii, Italy — A street still keeping its appointments two thousand years late, Vesuvius beyond Stone street in Pompeii with Vesuvius in the background https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/salamanca-cathedral.jpg Salamanca, Spain — Stone straining upward, as if the sky were a thing that could be reached Baroque cathedral tower in Salamanca seen from below https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/oxford-sheldonian.jpg Oxford, England — A dog sets the pace, three centuries of scholarship for a backdrop A man walking a Vizsla past the green dome of the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/florence-door.jpg Florence, Italy — Late afternoon, leaning gold against a tired shutter in the Oltrarno Old wooden shutter and window lit by warm afternoon light, Florence https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/salamanca-carousel.jpg Salamanca, Spain — A wooden horse forever mid-gallop, and never once arriving Painted carousel horse with Salamanca's old university buildings behind https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/firenze-cloister.jpg Florence, Italy — A restless sky, cut to fit the quiet of a cloister Cloister arches framing a bright, cloud-streaked sky, Florence https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/florence-madonna.jpg Florence, Italy — Gold that has outlasted every hand once folded before it Detail of a gold-ground Madonna and Child panel painting, Florence https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/oxford-cornmarket.jpg Oxford, England — A whole city folded into postcards, four for five pounds Vendor pushing a postcard cart through a busy Oxford shopping street https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/salamanca-dusk.jpg Salamanca, Spain — The minute the towers trade daylight for lamplight Salamanca skyline at dusk with cathedral towers and a lit carousel https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/pompeii-forum.jpg Pompeii, Italy — An open square that still remembers the weight of a crowd Ruins of the forum at Pompeii with visitors walking through https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/oxford-brewer-street.jpg Oxford, England — A quiet procession of strangers, following a voice down Brewer Street A line of people on a walking tour passing the Brewer Street corner, Oxford https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/salamanca-rooftop.jpg Salamanca, Spain — Starlings lined along the tiles, rehearsing the day's last word Hundreds of starlings lined along a terracotta tiled roof in Salamanca https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/florence-fresco.jpg Florence, Italy — Angels caught mid-flight, and held there five centuries running Detail of a ceiling fresco depicting the Holy Family among angels https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/florence-ponte-vecchio.jpg Florence, Italy — Ponte Vecchio holding still long enough for the Arno to copy it Ponte Vecchio and its reflection in the calm Arno at golden hour, Florence https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/budapest-liberty-bridge.jpg Budapest, Hungary — The green ironwork of Liberty Bridge, two boats slipping past beneath on the Danube Liberty Bridge over the Danube with sightseeing boats passing beneath, Budapest https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/sri-lanka-sunset.jpg Sri Lanka — The day burns down to embers over the reef, the palms going dark Purple and orange sunset over a rocky shoreline with palm silhouettes, Sri Lanka https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/naples-san-gennaro-mural.jpg Naples, Italy — A towering mural of San Gennaro keeping watch over the laundry and balconies of Forcella Large street mural of San Gennaro towering over a narrow Naples street hung with laundry https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/budapest-ruin-bar.jpg Budapest, Hungary — A ruined courtyard taken over by plants, graffiti and slow afternoon drinks Plant-filled, graffiti-covered courtyard of a Budapest ruin bar with people at tables https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/oxford-spider-web.jpg Oxford, England — A small architect mid-build, web strung against the green of Christ Church Meadow A spider on its web against a green, sunlit background, Christ Church Meadow, Oxford https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/budapest-liberty-statue.jpg Budapest, Hungary — The Liberty Statue lifts her palm while a jet rules one clean line across the sky Liberty Statue on Gellert Hill against a blue sky crossed by a jet contrail, Budapest https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/florence-passersby.jpg Florence, Italy — The street rushes past in a blur, one still figure lost in her phone Blurred passersby on a sunlit Florence street with one seated person in sharp focus https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/budapest-market-oranges.jpg Budapest, Hungary — Bundles of dried oranges and spice, holding their colour through the seasons Hanging bundles of dried oranges and pomanders at a Budapest market stall https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/india-temple-autos.jpg Tamil Nadu, India — Yellow auto-chariots wait their turn beneath towers that have been waiting far longer Row of yellow auto-rickshaws parked before two tall, colourful Hindu temple gopurams, Tamil Nadu https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/india-drying-harvest.jpg Tamil Nadu, India — She folds the day's grain back toward the sun, her sari the very green of the leaves around her An elderly woman in a sari bending to spread drying crops in a shaded grove, Tamil Nadu https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/thekkady-sunset.jpg Thekkady, India — For one minute the sun wins a gap in the cloud, and the whole valley seems to hold its breath Hazy orange sunset with the sun breaking through cloud over the Western Ghats, Thekkady https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/india-beach-line.jpg India — A line of children inks itself across the haze, the sea somewhere out past the glare Silhouetted line of schoolchildren walking across a vast hazy beach at low light, India https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/viterbo-panorama.jpg Viterbo, Italy — Umbrella pines stand sentry while the old town holds its dome up to a restless June sky Panorama of Viterbo with a domed church, umbrella pines and a green park under a blue sky https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/india-candles.jpg India — A handful of flames keeping vigil, the wax pooling like spent hours around them Several white candles burning with pooled melted wax against a dark background, India https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/paris-eiffel-pigeon.jpg Paris, France — Everyone on the Champ de Mars aims at the same iron giant — and a pigeon crosses the frame as though it owns the sky A pigeon in flight crossing in front of the Eiffel Tower above crowds on the lawn, Paris https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/paris-arc-relief.jpg Paris, France — Rude's winged Liberty has been crying the call to arms since 1836, and the stone still hasn't drawn breath Black and white view of Francois Rude's La Marseillaise relief on the Arc de Triomphe, Paris https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/paris-rooftops.jpg Paris, France — A grey tide of rooftops running clear to the towers, one red crane stitching the old city to the new Paris rooftops stretching to the horizon under an overcast sky with a red crane, Paris https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/paris-pont-alexandre.jpg Paris, France — The bridge's bronze spirits lounge in their gold leaf, unbothered by the flat Paris sky behind them Gilded bronze sculptures on the Pont Alexandre III against a grey sky, Paris https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/krakow-square-sunset.jpg Kraków, Poland — The winter market mills in silhouette while the sky above the Cloth Hall burns down from violet to ember Crowds in silhouette on Krakow's main square at sunset with the lit Cloth Hall, Poland https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/krakow-pigeons-lamp.jpg Kraków, Poland — A lamp shaped like a pair of wings, claimed by a congregation of pigeons — one still bargaining for its landing Pigeons perched on a winged lamp fixture against a clear blue sky with one landing, Krakow https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/krakow-barbican-silhouette.jpg Kraków, Poland — The old gate goes flat and black against the last blue, its little flags still bristling on every spire Silhouetted spires and flags of Krakow's old defences against a blue dusk sky, Poland https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/ireland-driftwood-beach.jpg Wexford, Ireland — A tangle of bleached driftwood makes a window onto the strand, and a single figure in red walks straight through it A person in red walking along a sandy beach seen through a frame of bleached driftwood branches, Ireland https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/ireland-glendalough-upper-lake.jpg Glendalough, Ireland — Glendalough's upper lake lies dark between the shoulders of the glen, the old miners' scar still pale on the far slope Glendalough Upper Lake between green and rocky mountains under a bright sky, County Wicklow, Ireland https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/ireland-mallard-river.jpg Glendalough, Ireland — A mallard works the shallows at eye level, unbothered, the river behind it dissolved into soft light A mallard duck dabbling at the pebbly edge of a sunlit river, Glendalough, Ireland https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/ireland-glendalough-valley.jpg Glendalough, Ireland — The path threads a handful of walkers into the great bowl of the valley, the waterfall a thin white thread at its head Hikers walking a gravel path through the Glenealo valley at Glendalough with a distant waterfall, Ireland https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/cebu-family-meal-relief.jpg?r=2 Cebu, Philippines — A fisherman's family bowed over the day's catch, the grace carved as deep as the net behind them Carved wooden relief of a family with bowed heads saying grace around a table with fish, Cebu, Philippines https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/andhra-roadside-cow.jpg Andhra Pradesh, India — Tethered in the roadside shade, she watched us longer than we watched her A tethered cow looking at the camera from behind a tree trunk in roadside shade, Andhra Pradesh, India https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/paris-sacre-coeur-dusk.jpg Paris, France — The steps of Sacré-Cœur at blue hour, the crowd settling in as the lamps take over Sacré-Cœur basilica illuminated at dusk with crowds sitting on the steps below, Montmartre, Paris https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/cebu-santo-nino-crucifix.jpg Cebu, Philippines — The crucifix holds still while the church keeps moving — prayers planted, a passer-by become a blur Worshippers standing before a crucifix altar while a passer-by blurs through the frame, Basilica del Santo Niño, Cebu https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/bohol-chocolate-hills-viewpoint.jpg Bohol, Philippines — Coin-slot binoculars at the Chocolate Hills, and small hands reaching for a better look Children reaching up to coin-operated binoculars at the Chocolate Hills viewpoint, Bohol, Philippines https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/warsaw-castle-square.jpg Warsaw, Poland — Sigismund keeps his column while December fills Castle Square below him Castle Square in Warsaw with Sigismund's Column, Christmas decorations and a decorated tree, December https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/warsaw-lamentation-relief.jpg Warsaw, Poland — A Lamentation carved five centuries ago, the grief still legible in the grain Medieval carved wooden relief of the Lamentation of Christ displayed on a museum wall, Warsaw https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/krakow-vistula-bridges-night.jpg?r=2 Kraków, Poland — Lattice arches throwing their light back into the Vistula on a December night Illuminated lattice arch bridges reflected in the Vistula river at night, Kraków https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/krakow-winter-contrails.jpg Kraków, Poland — Two jets crossed the bare canopy and left an X to mark the winter sky Two contrails crossing in a blue winter sky framed by bare tree branches, Kraków https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/krakow-bernatek-acrobat.jpg Kraków, Poland — One of the Bernatek footbridge acrobats, holding its pose between red steel and the night Balancing acrobat sculpture suspended among red-lit steel struts of the Bernatek footbridge at night, Kraków https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/gandikota-penna-gorge.jpg Gandikota, India — The Penna river threading the gorge it spent an age carving through Gandikota's red rock The green Penna river running through the red rock canyon at Gandikota, Andhra Pradesh, India https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/milan-duomo-statues.jpg Milan, Italy — Two of the Duomo's thousands hold their poses, letting the shadows do the falling Two marble statues on carved brackets against the wall of Milan Cathedral, one inverted, with hard shadows https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/milan-duomo-spires.jpg Milan, Italy — The Duomo raises its marble forest into a May sky, a saint on every spire The Gothic spires and pinnacles of Milan Cathedral rising against a blue sky with light clouds https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/simbruini-ridge-walk.jpg Monti Simbruini, Italy — A walker takes the spine of the Simbruini, the path stitching one summit to the next A hiker with a backpack descending a narrow mountain ridge path in the Apennines under low cloud https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/paris-gepetto-bicycle.jpg?r=2 Paris, France — A bicycle retired into typography — Gepetto & Vélos, rue Daubenton, rust setting the type An old yellow bicycle painted with a bike shop's hand-lettered advertisement, chained to a green railing in Paris https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/loyola-basque-reservoir.jpg Loyola, Spain — The valley above Loyola holds its water still, the hills leaning in green on green A calm reservoir surrounded by densely forested green hills under a blue sky in the Basque Country https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/bilbao-maman-spider.jpg Bilbao, Spain — Louise Bourgeois' Maman from directly beneath — thirty feet of bronze guarding a clutch of marble eggs Looking straight up at the underside of the giant Maman spider sculpture, its legs radiating against an overcast sky, Bilbao https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/florence-san-marco-crucifixion.jpg Florence, Italy — Fra Angelico's Crucifixion filling the chapter-house wall, grief arranged like choreography Fra Angelico's Crucifixion with Saints fresco under a vaulted ceiling, San Marco, Florence https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/florence-san-marco-annunciation.jpg Florence, Italy — The Annunciation at the top of the dormitory stairs — angel and Virgin folded in the same bow Fra Angelico's Annunciation fresco with the angel Gabriel and Mary under painted arches, San Marco, Florence https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/florence-san-marco-paradise.jpg Florence, Italy — The saved dancing in a ring through Paradise — Fra Angelico counting his blessings in gold leaf Detail of Fra Angelico's Last Judgment showing angels and the blessed dancing in a garden, San Marco, Florence https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/florence-san-marco-inferno.jpg Florence, Italy — The other half of the Judgment — Fra Angelico's hell, tiered like a house with the worst neighbours Detail of Fra Angelico's Last Judgment showing the tiered punishments of hell, San Marco, Florence https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/salamanca-cathedral-dome.jpg Salamanca, Spain — Under the crossing of the New Cathedral, the dome opening overhead like a stone iris Looking straight up at the ornate crossing dome and ribbed vaults of Salamanca's New Cathedral https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/london-embankment-sphinx.jpg London, England — A Victorian sphinx keeping its counsel on the Embankment while the Eye turns behind Bronze sphinx statue on Victoria Embankment in profile with the London Eye behind, London https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/normandy-chalk-cliffs.jpg Normandy, France — The alabaster coast walking off toward Dieppe, flint and chalk underfoot White chalk cliffs above a pebble and sand beach at low tide on the Normandy coast https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/normandy-gull-surf.jpg Normandy, France — A young gull working the surf line where the Channel turns to foam A juvenile gull flying low over breaking surf on the Normandy coast https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/oxford-bay-windows.jpg Oxford, England — Bay windows keeping rank on an Oxford facade, every pane minding its own sky Symmetrical stone bay windows with leaded panes on an Oxford college facade https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/oxford-christ-church-walkers.jpg Oxford, England — Six passers-by and one rainbow tote outside the college wall Six pedestrians walking in profile past a weathered stone college wall in Oxford, one carrying a rainbow tote bag https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/venice-gondola-canal.jpg Venice, Italy — A gondolier walking his boat off the wall at Salizzada San Todaro A gondolier pushing off a canal wall with his foot while steering passengers down a narrow Venetian canal https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/venice-church-candles.jpg Venice, Italy — A boy adds his candle to the rack, the prayer bigger than the hands carrying it A young boy lighting a taper candle at a votive candle rack inside a dark Venetian church https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/venice-shop-carving.jpg Venice, Italy — An old man surfacing out of driftwood in a shop window off the tourist current A carved wooden sculpture of an old bearded face emerging from driftwood in a Venetian shop window https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/venice-giudecca-winter.jpg Venice, Italy — Winter regulars on the Giudecca, San Giorgio keeping watch across the water People in winter coats walking along the Giudecca waterfront promenade with San Giorgio Maggiore behind, Venice https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/venice-water-taxis.jpg Venice, Italy — Water taxis crossing wakes on the green — Venice's rush hour, seen from a bridge Three wooden water taxis crossing paths on green canal water seen from above, Venice https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/venice-grand-canal-gondola.jpg Venice, Italy — The Grand Canal running its errands around one unhurried gondola A gondola with passengers crossing the Grand Canal among water taxis and work boats, Venice https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/venice-ferrovia-riverfront.jpg Venice, Italy — Ferrovia in thin winter sun — lamps, domes, and the Scalzi bridge holding the crowd The Grand Canal waterfront by Venice's railway station with ornate lampposts, the Scalzi bridge and a green church dome https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/venice-palazzo-facade.jpg Venice, Italy — A palazzo wearing its centuries down to the waterline A weathered Venetian palazzo facade with arched windows and peeling plaster rising from canal water https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/venice-accademia-view.jpg Venice, Italy — From the Accademia bridge, the Salute holding the December haze at arm's length View down the Grand Canal from the Accademia bridge toward the domes of Santa Maria della Salute in winter haze, Venice https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/london-great-court-lattice.jpg London, England — The Great Court's lattice printing itself across the Reading Room wall The British Museum Great Court's glass lattice roof casting diagonal shadows on the curved Reading Room wall https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/london-great-court-shadows.jpg London, England — Museum visitors crossing the shadow net — everyone caught, nobody held Visitors seen from above crossing the British Museum Great Court floor through a net of lattice shadows https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/london-tower-bridge.jpg London, England — Tower Bridge holding its pose while the kayaks paddle through the frame Tower Bridge over the Thames with kayakers paddling in the foreground under a cloudy blue sky, London https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/london-gunpowder-bench.jpg London, England — A quiet phone break in front of Britain's most daring conspiracy A young man seen from behind sitting on a bench checking his phone in front of a Gunpowder Plot banner, London https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/london-line-art-walkers.jpg London, England — Two travellers keeping pace with the line-art commuters on the wall A man and a woman pulling suitcases past a wall frieze of black line-art walking figures, London https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/kerala-sunrise-ridge.jpg Kerala, India — Seven in the morning over the Kerala hills, the sun counting its rays out loud Sunrise breaking over a forested ridge in Kerala with dramatic rays fanning through clouds https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/rome-appia-arch-plane.jpg Rome, Italy — Twenty centuries between wingspans on the approach over the Appia Antica A Ryanair jet on approach passing behind a ruined Roman brick arch against blue sky, Rome https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/amsterdam-bicycle-sea.jpg Amsterdam, Netherlands — Amsterdam's parking question, answered ten thousand times over A vast bicycle parking lot with thousands of bikes in rows outside Amsterdam's station https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/anagni-vespa.jpg Anagni, Italy — A Vespa taking the popes' town at walking pace A rider in a blue jacket and striped helmet crossing a cobbled square on a pale blue Vespa, Anagni https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/anagni-couple.jpg Anagni, Italy — Decades of practice at walking in step, Anagni keeping pace An elderly couple holding hands walking away down a cobbled street in Anagni, Italy https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/atri-portal-sun.jpg Atri, Italy — The sun taking its seat on a portal in Atri A stone portal silhouetted from below with a sunstar breaking over its carved pediment, Atri https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/ireland-islander-plane.jpg Ireland — Nine seats to the islands, waiting out the squall A small twin-propeller Islander aircraft on wet tarmac under dramatic clouds, Ireland https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/london-eye.jpg London, England — The Eye counting clouds over the South Bank The full circle of the London Eye against blue sky and clouds with County Hall beside it https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/london-southbank-performer.jpg London, England — A performer holding her note and her pose while the South Bank walks past A street performer in a gold dress and red sunglasses reclining mid-act on the South Bank pavement, London https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/london-southwark-bridge.jpg London, England — Southwark Bridge in green and gold, Tower Bridge minding the horizon Southwark Bridge crossing the Thames with Tower Bridge and the city skyline behind, London https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/london-st-pauls.jpg London, England — St Paul's counting toward six on a blue August evening The west front of St Paul's Cathedral with its two towers and clock against deep blue sky, London https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/ostia-theatre-masks.jpg Ostia Antica, Italy — Returning the favour — photographing the masks that watched Ostia's theatre A man photographing giant carved marble theatre masks on pillars among umbrella pines at Ostia Antica https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/rome-colosseum.jpg Rome, Italy — The Colosseum's outer ring, still holding its arches to the sky Looking up at the curved upper arches and corbels of the Colosseum against deep blue sky, Rome https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/rome-monti-street.jpg Rome, Italy — Monti running downhill, Santa Maria Maggiore holding the far end A Monti street in Rome with trattoria sign, ivy wall, cafe terraces and the dome of Santa Maria Maggiore beyond https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/karnataka-ivy-wall.jpg Karnataka, India — A wall given over entirely to green A dense wall of overlapping green ivy leaves filling the whole frame, Karnataka https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/karnataka-sunset.jpg Karnataka, India — The sun going down through bare branches over the Karnataka haze An orange sun setting through silhouetted bare tree branches in Karnataka, India https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/vatican-synod-lectionary.jpg Vatican City — The book open before St Peter's speaks — the morning the Synod began An open lectionary on a lectern facing the gilded apse and twin clocks inside St Peter's Basilica https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/sri-lanka-doves-wire.jpg Sri Lanka — Two spotted doves conferring on a wire before the day gets hot Two spotted doves perched close together on a power line among silhouetted palm trees, Sri Lanka https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/sri-lanka-temple-relief.jpg Kelaniya, Sri Lanka — A temple guardian keeping her smile through the centuries of sun A carved stone relief of a serene female figure in a niche on a Sri Lankan temple wall, warm afternoon light https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/sri-lanka-fort-light.jpg Sri Lanka — Late sun finding the one arch it wanted inside the old fort Golden evening light striking an arched doorway inside a dark stone fort casemate with a grass courtyard beyond, Sri Lanka https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/dambulla-reclining-buddha.jpg Dambulla, Sri Lanka — The reclining Buddha of the Dambulla caves, resting under a painted sky A golden reclining Buddha statue beneath a painted checkered cave ceiling at Dambulla, Sri Lanka https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/sigiriya-from-pidurangala.jpg Sigiriya, Sri Lanka — Lion Rock holding court over the plain, seen from Pidurangala at seven in the morning Sigiriya rock fortress rising from forested plains seen from Pidurangala rock with a boulder in the foreground, Sri Lanka https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/vatican-dome-gardens.jpg Vatican City — The dome doing its quiet morning rounds above the Vatican Gardens The dome of St Peter's Basilica seen through a gap in dark garden foliage in the Vatican Gardens https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/palermo-lion-knocker.jpg Palermo, Italy — A lion demoted to door duty, still taking the post seriously Weathered wooden door panels with an iron lion-head knocker and ring, Palermo https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/palermo-balconies.jpg Palermo, Italy — Evening gilds every balcony equally, air conditioners included Sunlit apartment facade with rows of balconies, shutters and air conditioners, Palermo https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/palermo-sea-rocks.jpg Palermo, Italy — The Tyrrhenian worrying the same rocks it has worried for millennia White surf churning over dark flat rocks seen from above on the Palermo coast https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/amsterdam-bikes-sunset.jpg Amsterdam, Netherlands — The same ten thousand bicycles, this time with the low sun behind them Thousands of parked bicycles filling a station square at sunset with office buildings behind, Amsterdam https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/frankfurt-romerberg.jpg Frankfurt, Germany — The Römerberg's rebuilt gables holding the last red light, the winter crowds not yet gone home Half-timbered gabled houses and a church spire around the Römerberg square at dusk with crowds, Frankfurt https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/germany-railway-junction.jpg Germany — A set of points on the main line, the rails picking their way toward the hills Railway tracks converging at a set of points with overhead wires and a wooded hillside behind, Germany https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/dachau-memorial.jpg Dachau, Germany — Nandor Glid's International Monument (1968) at the Dachau memorial — cast figures caught in the wire Silhouette from below of Nandor Glid's bronze memorial of emaciated figures entangled in barbed wire against a blue sky, Dachau https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/normandy-dusk-branches.jpg Normandy, France — A dead branch keeping its silhouette while the sky above the alabaster coast won't stop burning Silhouette of bare, leafless tree branches against a golden and orange sunset sky with dramatic clouds, Normandy https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/normandy-dusk-daisies.jpg Normandy, France — Ox-eye daisies keeping their heads up long after the sun had officially given in White daisies backlit against a blue and orange dusk sky, with tall grass and water in the blurred background, Normandy https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/normandy-dusk-tree-channel.jpg Normandy, France — A lone tree minding the Channel as the blue hour settles in for the night Silhouette of a large tree against a deep blue dusk sky overlooking the sea horizon, Normandy https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/dieppe-cliffs-town.jpg Dieppe, France — Dieppe's chalk face and its rooftops, with the turbines standing watch along the ridge White chalk cliffs and a coastal town seen across a wide bay, with wind turbines on the hill behind, Dieppe https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/france-wheat-field.jpg France — A spider staking its claim on the tallest ear in the field before anyone else could Close-up of ripening wheat ears with a spider web strung between the stalks, hedgerow blurred in the background https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/paris-catacombs-plaque.jpg Paris, France — Skulls keeping their old audience under a stone epitaph about the schoolroom of the dead Rows of skulls above a carved stone plaque bearing a nineteenth-century French inscription, Paris Catacombs https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/almonaster-symbol-sculpture.jpg Almonaster, Spain — A white sculpture of symbols and mathematics watches the town of Almonaster from its high plaza, the castle tower still keeping guard above White modernist sculptural installation with carved symbols and mathematical notation, overlooking a hilltop town with castle, clear blue sky https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/corteconcepcion-frost-hedge.jpg Corteconcepción, Spain — A frost-laden hedge holds the morning light at its edge, the rest of the world a dark silhouette below Frost-covered sparse vegetation backlit against bright blue sky, creating white crystalline silhouette against clear background https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/corteconcepcion-sunrise-foliage.jpg Corteconcepción, Spain — Flowers and leaves catch fire from behind as the sun breaks open the sky Silhouetted flowering branches and foliage backlit by golden sunrise, creating warm amber glow through plant structures https://vivriccardo.com/england/ 2026-08-08 monthly 0.8 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/oxford-sheldonian.jpg Oxford, England — A dog sets the pace, three centuries of scholarship for a backdrop A man walking a Vizsla past the green dome of the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/oxford-cornmarket.jpg Oxford, England — A whole city folded into postcards, four for five pounds Vendor pushing a postcard cart through a busy Oxford shopping street https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/oxford-brewer-street.jpg Oxford, England — A quiet procession of strangers, following a voice down Brewer Street A line of people on a walking tour passing the Brewer Street corner, Oxford https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/oxford-spider-web.jpg Oxford, England — A small architect mid-build, web strung against the green of Christ Church Meadow A spider on its web against a green, sunlit background, Christ Church Meadow, Oxford https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/london-embankment-sphinx.jpg London, England — A Victorian sphinx keeping its counsel on the Embankment while the Eye turns behind Bronze sphinx statue on Victoria Embankment in profile with the London Eye behind, London https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/oxford-bay-windows.jpg Oxford, England — Bay windows keeping rank on an Oxford facade, every pane minding its own sky Symmetrical stone bay windows with leaded panes on an Oxford college facade https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/oxford-christ-church-walkers.jpg Oxford, England — Six passers-by and one rainbow tote outside the college wall Six pedestrians walking in profile past a weathered stone college wall in Oxford, one carrying a rainbow tote bag https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/london-great-court-lattice.jpg London, England — The Great Court's lattice printing itself across the Reading Room wall The British Museum Great Court's glass lattice roof casting diagonal shadows on the curved Reading Room wall https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/london-great-court-shadows.jpg London, England — Museum visitors crossing the shadow net — everyone caught, nobody held Visitors seen from above crossing the British Museum Great Court floor through a net of lattice shadows https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/london-tower-bridge.jpg London, England — Tower Bridge holding its pose while the kayaks paddle through the frame Tower Bridge over the Thames with kayakers paddling in the foreground under a cloudy blue sky, London https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/london-gunpowder-bench.jpg London, England — A quiet phone break in front of Britain's most daring conspiracy A young man seen from behind sitting on a bench checking his phone in front of a Gunpowder Plot banner, London https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/london-line-art-walkers.jpg London, England — Two travellers keeping pace with the line-art commuters on the wall A man and a woman pulling suitcases past a wall frieze of black line-art walking figures, London https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/london-eye.jpg London, England — The Eye counting clouds over the South Bank The full circle of the London Eye against blue sky and clouds with County Hall beside it https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/london-southbank-performer.jpg London, England — A performer holding her note and her pose while the South Bank walks past A street performer in a gold dress and red sunglasses reclining mid-act on the South Bank pavement, London https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/london-southwark-bridge.jpg London, England — Southwark Bridge in green and gold, Tower Bridge minding the horizon Southwark Bridge crossing the Thames with Tower Bridge and the city skyline behind, London https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/london-st-pauls.jpg London, England — St Paul's counting toward six on a blue August evening The west front of St Paul's Cathedral with its two towers and clock against deep blue sky, London https://vivriccardo.com/france/ 2026-08-08 monthly 0.8 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/paris-eiffel-pigeon.jpg Paris, France — Everyone on the Champ de Mars aims at the same iron giant — and a pigeon crosses the frame as though it owns the sky A pigeon in flight crossing in front of the Eiffel Tower above crowds on the lawn, Paris https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/paris-arc-relief.jpg Paris, France — Rude's winged Liberty has been crying the call to arms since 1836, and the stone still hasn't drawn breath Black and white view of Francois Rude's La Marseillaise relief on the Arc de Triomphe, Paris https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/paris-rooftops.jpg Paris, France — A grey tide of rooftops running clear to the towers, one red crane stitching the old city to the new Paris rooftops stretching to the horizon under an overcast sky with a red crane, Paris https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/paris-pont-alexandre.jpg Paris, France — The bridge's bronze spirits lounge in their gold leaf, unbothered by the flat Paris sky behind them Gilded bronze sculptures on the Pont Alexandre III against a grey sky, Paris https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/paris-sacre-coeur-dusk.jpg Paris, France — The steps of Sacré-Cœur at blue hour, the crowd settling in as the lamps take over Sacré-Cœur basilica illuminated at dusk with crowds sitting on the steps below, Montmartre, Paris https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/paris-gepetto-bicycle.jpg?r=2 Paris, France — A bicycle retired into typography — Gepetto & Vélos, rue Daubenton, rust setting the type An old yellow bicycle painted with a bike shop's hand-lettered advertisement, chained to a green railing in Paris https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/normandy-chalk-cliffs.jpg Normandy, France — The alabaster coast walking off toward Dieppe, flint and chalk underfoot White chalk cliffs above a pebble and sand beach at low tide on the Normandy coast https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/normandy-gull-surf.jpg Normandy, France — A young gull working the surf line where the Channel turns to foam A juvenile gull flying low over breaking surf on the Normandy coast https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/normandy-dusk-branches.jpg Normandy, France — A dead branch keeping its silhouette while the sky above the alabaster coast won't stop burning Silhouette of bare, leafless tree branches against a golden and orange sunset sky with dramatic clouds, Normandy https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/normandy-dusk-daisies.jpg Normandy, France — Ox-eye daisies keeping their heads up long after the sun had officially given in White daisies backlit against a blue and orange dusk sky, with tall grass and water in the blurred background, Normandy https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/normandy-dusk-tree-channel.jpg Normandy, France — A lone tree minding the Channel as the blue hour settles in for the night Silhouette of a large tree against a deep blue dusk sky overlooking the sea horizon, Normandy https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/dieppe-cliffs-town.jpg Dieppe, France — Dieppe's chalk face and its rooftops, with the turbines standing watch along the ridge White chalk cliffs and a coastal town seen across a wide bay, with wind turbines on the hill behind, Dieppe https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/france-wheat-field.jpg France — A spider staking its claim on the tallest ear in the field before anyone else could Close-up of ripening wheat ears with a spider web strung between the stalks, hedgerow blurred in the background https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/paris-catacombs-plaque.jpg Paris, France — Skulls keeping their old audience under a stone epitaph about the schoolroom of the dead Rows of skulls above a carved stone plaque bearing a nineteenth-century French inscription, Paris Catacombs https://vivriccardo.com/germany/ 2026-08-08 monthly 0.8 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/frankfurt-romerberg.jpg Frankfurt, Germany — The Römerberg's rebuilt gables holding the last red light, the winter crowds not yet gone home Half-timbered gabled houses and a church spire around the Römerberg square at dusk with crowds, Frankfurt https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/germany-railway-junction.jpg Germany — A set of points on the main line, the rails picking their way toward the hills Railway tracks converging at a set of points with overhead wires and a wooded hillside behind, Germany https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/dachau-memorial.jpg Dachau, Germany — Nandor Glid's International Monument (1968) at the Dachau memorial — cast figures caught in the wire Silhouette from below of Nandor Glid's bronze memorial of emaciated figures entangled in barbed wire against a blue sky, Dachau https://vivriccardo.com/hungary/ 2026-08-08 monthly 0.8 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/budapest-liberty-bridge.jpg Budapest, Hungary — The green ironwork of Liberty Bridge, two boats slipping past beneath on the Danube Liberty Bridge over the Danube with sightseeing boats passing beneath, Budapest https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/budapest-ruin-bar.jpg Budapest, Hungary — A ruined courtyard taken over by plants, graffiti and slow afternoon drinks Plant-filled, graffiti-covered courtyard of a Budapest ruin bar with people at tables https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/budapest-liberty-statue.jpg Budapest, Hungary — The Liberty Statue lifts her palm while a jet rules one clean line across the sky Liberty Statue on Gellert Hill against a blue sky crossed by a jet contrail, Budapest https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/budapest-market-oranges.jpg Budapest, Hungary — Bundles of dried oranges and spice, holding their colour through the seasons Hanging bundles of dried oranges and pomanders at a Budapest market stall https://vivriccardo.com/india/ 2026-08-08 monthly 0.8 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/india-temple-autos.jpg Tamil Nadu, India — Yellow auto-chariots wait their turn beneath towers that have been waiting far longer Row of yellow auto-rickshaws parked before two tall, colourful Hindu temple gopurams, Tamil Nadu https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/india-drying-harvest.jpg Tamil Nadu, India — She folds the day's grain back toward the sun, her sari the very green of the leaves around her An elderly woman in a sari bending to spread drying crops in a shaded grove, Tamil Nadu https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/thekkady-sunset.jpg Thekkady, India — For one minute the sun wins a gap in the cloud, and the whole valley seems to hold its breath Hazy orange sunset with the sun breaking through cloud over the Western Ghats, Thekkady https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/india-beach-line.jpg India — A line of children inks itself across the haze, the sea somewhere out past the glare Silhouetted line of schoolchildren walking across a vast hazy beach at low light, India https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/india-candles.jpg India — A handful of flames keeping vigil, the wax pooling like spent hours around them Several white candles burning with pooled melted wax against a dark background, India https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/andhra-roadside-cow.jpg Andhra Pradesh, India — Tethered in the roadside shade, she watched us longer than we watched her A tethered cow looking at the camera from behind a tree trunk in roadside shade, Andhra Pradesh, India https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/gandikota-penna-gorge.jpg Gandikota, India — The Penna river threading the gorge it spent an age carving through Gandikota's red rock The green Penna river running through the red rock canyon at Gandikota, Andhra Pradesh, India https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/kerala-sunrise-ridge.jpg Kerala, India — Seven in the morning over the Kerala hills, the sun counting its rays out loud Sunrise breaking over a forested ridge in Kerala with dramatic rays fanning through clouds https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/karnataka-ivy-wall.jpg Karnataka, India — A wall given over entirely to green A dense wall of overlapping green ivy leaves filling the whole frame, Karnataka https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/karnataka-sunset.jpg Karnataka, India — The sun going down through bare branches over the Karnataka haze An orange sun setting through silhouetted bare tree branches in Karnataka, India https://vivriccardo.com/ireland/ 2026-08-08 monthly 0.8 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/ireland-driftwood-beach.jpg Wexford, Ireland — A tangle of bleached driftwood makes a window onto the strand, and a single figure in red walks straight through it A person in red walking along a sandy beach seen through a frame of bleached driftwood branches, Ireland https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/ireland-glendalough-upper-lake.jpg Glendalough, Ireland — Glendalough's upper lake lies dark between the shoulders of the glen, the old miners' scar still pale on the far slope Glendalough Upper Lake between green and rocky mountains under a bright sky, County Wicklow, Ireland https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/ireland-mallard-river.jpg Glendalough, Ireland — A mallard works the shallows at eye level, unbothered, the river behind it dissolved into soft light A mallard duck dabbling at the pebbly edge of a sunlit river, Glendalough, Ireland https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/ireland-glendalough-valley.jpg Glendalough, Ireland — The path threads a handful of walkers into the great bowl of the valley, the waterfall a thin white thread at its head Hikers walking a gravel path through the Glenealo valley at Glendalough with a distant waterfall, Ireland https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/ireland-islander-plane.jpg Ireland — Nine seats to the islands, waiting out the squall A small twin-propeller Islander aircraft on wet tarmac under dramatic clouds, Ireland https://vivriccardo.com/italy/ 2026-08-08 monthly 0.8 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/rome-festa-della-repubblica.jpg Rome, Italy — Three colours breathed across the sky, gone before they fall Aerobatic formation trailing tricolour smoke over Rome https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/vatican-sunset.jpg?r=2 Vatican City — The sky catches fire and the gulls take the long way home over Saint Peter's Gulls silhouetted against a fiery sunset sky above St Peter's Basilica, Vatican City https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/pompeii-via.jpg Pompeii, Italy — A street still keeping its appointments two thousand years late, Vesuvius beyond Stone street in Pompeii with Vesuvius in the background https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/florence-door.jpg Florence, Italy — Late afternoon, leaning gold against a tired shutter in the Oltrarno Old wooden shutter and window lit by warm afternoon light, Florence https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/firenze-cloister.jpg Florence, Italy — A restless sky, cut to fit the quiet of a cloister Cloister arches framing a bright, cloud-streaked sky, Florence https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/florence-madonna.jpg Florence, Italy — Gold that has outlasted every hand once folded before it Detail of a gold-ground Madonna and Child panel painting, Florence https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/pompeii-forum.jpg Pompeii, Italy — An open square that still remembers the weight of a crowd Ruins of the forum at Pompeii with visitors walking through https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/florence-fresco.jpg Florence, Italy — Angels caught mid-flight, and held there five centuries running Detail of a ceiling fresco depicting the Holy Family among angels https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/florence-ponte-vecchio.jpg Florence, Italy — Ponte Vecchio holding still long enough for the Arno to copy it Ponte Vecchio and its reflection in the calm Arno at golden hour, Florence https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/naples-san-gennaro-mural.jpg Naples, Italy — A towering mural of San Gennaro keeping watch over the laundry and balconies of Forcella Large street mural of San Gennaro towering over a narrow Naples street hung with laundry https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/florence-passersby.jpg Florence, Italy — The street rushes past in a blur, one still figure lost in her phone Blurred passersby on a sunlit Florence street with one seated person in sharp focus https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/viterbo-panorama.jpg Viterbo, Italy — Umbrella pines stand sentry while the old town holds its dome up to a restless June sky Panorama of Viterbo with a domed church, umbrella pines and a green park under a blue sky https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/milan-duomo-statues.jpg Milan, Italy — Two of the Duomo's thousands hold their poses, letting the shadows do the falling Two marble statues on carved brackets against the wall of Milan Cathedral, one inverted, with hard shadows https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/milan-duomo-spires.jpg Milan, Italy — The Duomo raises its marble forest into a May sky, a saint on every spire The Gothic spires and pinnacles of Milan Cathedral rising against a blue sky with light clouds https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/simbruini-ridge-walk.jpg Monti Simbruini, Italy — A walker takes the spine of the Simbruini, the path stitching one summit to the next A hiker with a backpack descending a narrow mountain ridge path in the Apennines under low cloud https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/florence-san-marco-crucifixion.jpg Florence, Italy — Fra Angelico's Crucifixion filling the chapter-house wall, grief arranged like choreography Fra Angelico's Crucifixion with Saints fresco under a vaulted ceiling, San Marco, Florence https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/florence-san-marco-annunciation.jpg Florence, Italy — The Annunciation at the top of the dormitory stairs — angel and Virgin folded in the same bow Fra Angelico's Annunciation fresco with the angel Gabriel and Mary under painted arches, San Marco, Florence https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/florence-san-marco-paradise.jpg Florence, Italy — The saved dancing in a ring through Paradise — Fra Angelico counting his blessings in gold leaf Detail of Fra Angelico's Last Judgment showing angels and the blessed dancing in a garden, San Marco, Florence https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/florence-san-marco-inferno.jpg Florence, Italy — The other half of the Judgment — Fra Angelico's hell, tiered like a house with the worst neighbours Detail of Fra Angelico's Last Judgment showing the tiered punishments of hell, San Marco, Florence https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/venice-gondola-canal.jpg Venice, Italy — A gondolier walking his boat off the wall at Salizzada San Todaro A gondolier pushing off a canal wall with his foot while steering passengers down a narrow Venetian canal https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/venice-church-candles.jpg Venice, Italy — A boy adds his candle to the rack, the prayer bigger than the hands carrying it A young boy lighting a taper candle at a votive candle rack inside a dark Venetian church https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/venice-shop-carving.jpg Venice, Italy — An old man surfacing out of driftwood in a shop window off the tourist current A carved wooden sculpture of an old bearded face emerging from driftwood in a Venetian shop window https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/venice-giudecca-winter.jpg Venice, Italy — Winter regulars on the Giudecca, San Giorgio keeping watch across the water People in winter coats walking along the Giudecca waterfront promenade with San Giorgio Maggiore behind, Venice https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/venice-water-taxis.jpg Venice, Italy — Water taxis crossing wakes on the green — Venice's rush hour, seen from a bridge Three wooden water taxis crossing paths on green canal water seen from above, Venice https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/venice-grand-canal-gondola.jpg Venice, Italy — The Grand Canal running its errands around one unhurried gondola A gondola with passengers crossing the Grand Canal among water taxis and work boats, Venice https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/venice-ferrovia-riverfront.jpg Venice, Italy — Ferrovia in thin winter sun — lamps, domes, and the Scalzi bridge holding the crowd The Grand Canal waterfront by Venice's railway station with ornate lampposts, the Scalzi bridge and a green church dome https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/venice-palazzo-facade.jpg Venice, Italy — A palazzo wearing its centuries down to the waterline A weathered Venetian palazzo facade with arched windows and peeling plaster rising from canal water https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/venice-accademia-view.jpg Venice, Italy — From the Accademia bridge, the Salute holding the December haze at arm's length View down the Grand Canal from the Accademia bridge toward the domes of Santa Maria della Salute in winter haze, Venice https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/rome-appia-arch-plane.jpg Rome, Italy — Twenty centuries between wingspans on the approach over the Appia Antica A Ryanair jet on approach passing behind a ruined Roman brick arch against blue sky, Rome https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/anagni-vespa.jpg Anagni, Italy — A Vespa taking the popes' town at walking pace A rider in a blue jacket and striped helmet crossing a cobbled square on a pale blue Vespa, Anagni https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/anagni-couple.jpg Anagni, Italy — Decades of practice at walking in step, Anagni keeping pace An elderly couple holding hands walking away down a cobbled street in Anagni, Italy https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/atri-portal-sun.jpg Atri, Italy — The sun taking its seat on a portal in Atri A stone portal silhouetted from below with a sunstar breaking over its carved pediment, Atri https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/ostia-theatre-masks.jpg Ostia Antica, Italy — Returning the favour — photographing the masks that watched Ostia's theatre A man photographing giant carved marble theatre masks on pillars among umbrella pines at Ostia Antica https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/rome-colosseum.jpg Rome, Italy — The Colosseum's outer ring, still holding its arches to the sky Looking up at the curved upper arches and corbels of the Colosseum against deep blue sky, Rome https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/rome-monti-street.jpg Rome, Italy — Monti running downhill, Santa Maria Maggiore holding the far end A Monti street in Rome with trattoria sign, ivy wall, cafe terraces and the dome of Santa Maria Maggiore beyond https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/vatican-synod-lectionary.jpg Vatican City — The book open before St Peter's speaks — the morning the Synod began An open lectionary on a lectern facing the gilded apse and twin clocks inside St Peter's Basilica https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/vatican-dome-gardens.jpg Vatican City — The dome doing its quiet morning rounds above the Vatican Gardens The dome of St Peter's Basilica seen through a gap in dark garden foliage in the Vatican Gardens https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/palermo-lion-knocker.jpg Palermo, Italy — A lion demoted to door duty, still taking the post seriously Weathered wooden door panels with an iron lion-head knocker and ring, Palermo https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/palermo-balconies.jpg Palermo, Italy — Evening gilds every balcony equally, air conditioners included Sunlit apartment facade with rows of balconies, shutters and air conditioners, Palermo https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/palermo-sea-rocks.jpg Palermo, Italy — The Tyrrhenian worrying the same rocks it has worried for millennia White surf churning over dark flat rocks seen from above on the Palermo coast https://vivriccardo.com/netherlands/ 2026-08-08 monthly 0.8 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/amsterdam-bicycle-sea.jpg Amsterdam, Netherlands — Amsterdam's parking question, answered ten thousand times over A vast bicycle parking lot with thousands of bikes in rows outside Amsterdam's station https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/amsterdam-bikes-sunset.jpg Amsterdam, Netherlands — The same ten thousand bicycles, this time with the low sun behind them Thousands of parked bicycles filling a station square at sunset with office buildings behind, Amsterdam https://vivriccardo.com/philippines/ 2026-08-08 monthly 0.8 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/cebu-family-meal-relief.jpg?r=2 Cebu, Philippines — A fisherman's family bowed over the day's catch, the grace carved as deep as the net behind them Carved wooden relief of a family with bowed heads saying grace around a table with fish, Cebu, Philippines https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/cebu-santo-nino-crucifix.jpg Cebu, Philippines — The crucifix holds still while the church keeps moving — prayers planted, a passer-by become a blur Worshippers standing before a crucifix altar while a passer-by blurs through the frame, Basilica del Santo Niño, Cebu https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/bohol-chocolate-hills-viewpoint.jpg Bohol, Philippines — Coin-slot binoculars at the Chocolate Hills, and small hands reaching for a better look Children reaching up to coin-operated binoculars at the Chocolate Hills viewpoint, Bohol, Philippines https://vivriccardo.com/poland/ 2026-08-08 monthly 0.8 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/krakow-square-sunset.jpg Kraków, Poland — The winter market mills in silhouette while the sky above the Cloth Hall burns down from violet to ember Crowds in silhouette on Krakow's main square at sunset with the lit Cloth Hall, Poland https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/krakow-pigeons-lamp.jpg Kraków, Poland — A lamp shaped like a pair of wings, claimed by a congregation of pigeons — one still bargaining for its landing Pigeons perched on a winged lamp fixture against a clear blue sky with one landing, Krakow https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/krakow-barbican-silhouette.jpg Kraków, Poland — The old gate goes flat and black against the last blue, its little flags still bristling on every spire Silhouetted spires and flags of Krakow's old defences against a blue dusk sky, Poland https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/warsaw-castle-square.jpg Warsaw, Poland — Sigismund keeps his column while December fills Castle Square below him Castle Square in Warsaw with Sigismund's Column, Christmas decorations and a decorated tree, December https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/warsaw-lamentation-relief.jpg Warsaw, Poland — A Lamentation carved five centuries ago, the grief still legible in the grain Medieval carved wooden relief of the Lamentation of Christ displayed on a museum wall, Warsaw https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/krakow-vistula-bridges-night.jpg?r=2 Kraków, Poland — Lattice arches throwing their light back into the Vistula on a December night Illuminated lattice arch bridges reflected in the Vistula river at night, Kraków https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/krakow-winter-contrails.jpg Kraków, Poland — Two jets crossed the bare canopy and left an X to mark the winter sky Two contrails crossing in a blue winter sky framed by bare tree branches, Kraków https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/krakow-bernatek-acrobat.jpg Kraków, Poland — One of the Bernatek footbridge acrobats, holding its pose between red steel and the night Balancing acrobat sculpture suspended among red-lit steel struts of the Bernatek footbridge at night, Kraków https://vivriccardo.com/spain/ 2026-08-08 monthly 0.8 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/salamanca-cathedral.jpg Salamanca, Spain — Stone straining upward, as if the sky were a thing that could be reached Baroque cathedral tower in Salamanca seen from below https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/salamanca-carousel.jpg Salamanca, Spain — A wooden horse forever mid-gallop, and never once arriving Painted carousel horse with Salamanca's old university buildings behind https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/salamanca-dusk.jpg Salamanca, Spain — The minute the towers trade daylight for lamplight Salamanca skyline at dusk with cathedral towers and a lit carousel https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/salamanca-rooftop.jpg Salamanca, Spain — Starlings lined along the tiles, rehearsing the day's last word Hundreds of starlings lined along a terracotta tiled roof in Salamanca https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/loyola-basque-reservoir.jpg Loyola, Spain — The valley above Loyola holds its water still, the hills leaning in green on green A calm reservoir surrounded by densely forested green hills under a blue sky in the Basque Country https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/bilbao-maman-spider.jpg Bilbao, Spain — Louise Bourgeois' Maman from directly beneath — thirty feet of bronze guarding a clutch of marble eggs Looking straight up at the underside of the giant Maman spider sculpture, its legs radiating against an overcast sky, Bilbao https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/salamanca-cathedral-dome.jpg Salamanca, Spain — Under the crossing of the New Cathedral, the dome opening overhead like a stone iris Looking straight up at the ornate crossing dome and ribbed vaults of Salamanca's New Cathedral https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/almonaster-symbol-sculpture.jpg Almonaster, Spain — A white sculpture of symbols and mathematics watches the town of Almonaster from its high plaza, the castle tower still keeping guard above White modernist sculptural installation with carved symbols and mathematical notation, overlooking a hilltop town with castle, clear blue sky https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/corteconcepcion-frost-hedge.jpg Corteconcepción, Spain — A frost-laden hedge holds the morning light at its edge, the rest of the world a dark silhouette below Frost-covered sparse vegetation backlit against bright blue sky, creating white crystalline silhouette against clear background https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/corteconcepcion-sunrise-foliage.jpg Corteconcepción, Spain — Flowers and leaves catch fire from behind as the sun breaks open the sky Silhouetted flowering branches and foliage backlit by golden sunrise, creating warm amber glow through plant structures https://vivriccardo.com/sri-lanka/ 2026-08-08 monthly 0.8 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/sri-lanka-sunset.jpg Sri Lanka — The day burns down to embers over the reef, the palms going dark Purple and orange sunset over a rocky shoreline with palm silhouettes, Sri Lanka https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/sri-lanka-doves-wire.jpg Sri Lanka — Two spotted doves conferring on a wire before the day gets hot Two spotted doves perched close together on a power line among silhouetted palm trees, Sri Lanka https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/sri-lanka-temple-relief.jpg Kelaniya, Sri Lanka — A temple guardian keeping her smile through the centuries of sun A carved stone relief of a serene female figure in a niche on a Sri Lankan temple wall, warm afternoon light https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/sri-lanka-fort-light.jpg Sri Lanka — Late sun finding the one arch it wanted inside the old fort Golden evening light striking an arched doorway inside a dark stone fort casemate with a grass courtyard beyond, Sri Lanka https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/dambulla-reclining-buddha.jpg Dambulla, Sri Lanka — The reclining Buddha of the Dambulla caves, resting under a painted sky A golden reclining Buddha statue beneath a painted checkered cave ceiling at Dambulla, Sri Lanka https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/sigiriya-from-pidurangala.jpg Sigiriya, Sri Lanka — Lion Rock holding court over the plain, seen from Pidurangala at seven in the morning Sigiriya rock fortress rising from forested plains seen from Pidurangala rock with a boulder in the foreground, Sri Lanka https://vivriccardo.com/themes/architecture/ 2026-08-08 monthly 0.8 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/pompeii-via.jpg Pompeii, Italy — A street still keeping its appointments two thousand years late, Vesuvius beyond Stone street in Pompeii with Vesuvius in the background https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/salamanca-cathedral.jpg Salamanca, Spain — Stone straining upward, as if the sky were a thing that could be reached Baroque cathedral tower in Salamanca seen from below https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/florence-door.jpg Florence, Italy — Late afternoon, leaning gold against a tired shutter in the Oltrarno Old wooden shutter and window lit by warm afternoon light, Florence https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/firenze-cloister.jpg Florence, Italy — A restless sky, cut to fit the quiet of a cloister Cloister arches framing a bright, cloud-streaked sky, Florence https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/salamanca-dusk.jpg Salamanca, Spain — The minute the towers trade daylight for lamplight Salamanca skyline at dusk with cathedral towers and a lit carousel https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/pompeii-forum.jpg Pompeii, Italy — An open square that still remembers the weight of a crowd Ruins of the forum at Pompeii with visitors walking through https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/florence-ponte-vecchio.jpg Florence, Italy — Ponte Vecchio holding still long enough for the Arno to copy it Ponte Vecchio and its reflection in the calm Arno at golden hour, Florence https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/budapest-liberty-bridge.jpg Budapest, Hungary — The green ironwork of Liberty Bridge, two boats slipping past beneath on the Danube Liberty Bridge over the Danube with sightseeing boats passing beneath, Budapest https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/viterbo-panorama.jpg Viterbo, Italy — Umbrella pines stand sentry while the old town holds its dome up to a restless June sky Panorama of Viterbo with a domed church, umbrella pines and a green park under a blue sky https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/paris-rooftops.jpg Paris, France — A grey tide of rooftops running clear to the towers, one red crane stitching the old city to the new Paris rooftops stretching to the horizon under an overcast sky with a red crane, Paris https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/paris-pont-alexandre.jpg Paris, France — The bridge's bronze spirits lounge in their gold leaf, unbothered by the flat Paris sky behind them Gilded bronze sculptures on the Pont Alexandre III against a grey sky, Paris https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/krakow-barbican-silhouette.jpg Kraków, Poland — The old gate goes flat and black against the last blue, its little flags still bristling on every spire Silhouetted spires and flags of Krakow's old defences against a blue dusk sky, Poland https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/warsaw-castle-square.jpg Warsaw, Poland — Sigismund keeps his column while December fills Castle Square below him Castle Square in Warsaw with Sigismund's Column, Christmas decorations and a decorated tree, December https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/krakow-vistula-bridges-night.jpg?r=2 Kraków, Poland — Lattice arches throwing their light back into the Vistula on a December night Illuminated lattice arch bridges reflected in the Vistula river at night, Kraków https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/milan-duomo-statues.jpg Milan, Italy — Two of the Duomo's thousands hold their poses, letting the shadows do the falling Two marble statues on carved brackets against the wall of Milan Cathedral, one inverted, with hard shadows https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/milan-duomo-spires.jpg Milan, Italy — The Duomo raises its marble forest into a May sky, a saint on every spire The Gothic spires and pinnacles of Milan Cathedral rising against a blue sky with light clouds https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/salamanca-cathedral-dome.jpg Salamanca, Spain — Under the crossing of the New Cathedral, the dome opening overhead like a stone iris Looking straight up at the ornate crossing dome and ribbed vaults of Salamanca's New Cathedral https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/oxford-bay-windows.jpg Oxford, England — Bay windows keeping rank on an Oxford facade, every pane minding its own sky Symmetrical stone bay windows with leaded panes on an Oxford college facade https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/venice-grand-canal-gondola.jpg Venice, Italy — The Grand Canal running its errands around one unhurried gondola A gondola with passengers crossing the Grand Canal among water taxis and work boats, Venice https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/venice-ferrovia-riverfront.jpg Venice, Italy — Ferrovia in thin winter sun — lamps, domes, and the Scalzi bridge holding the crowd The Grand Canal waterfront by Venice's railway station with ornate lampposts, the Scalzi bridge and a green church dome https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/venice-palazzo-facade.jpg Venice, Italy — A palazzo wearing its centuries down to the waterline A weathered Venetian palazzo facade with arched windows and peeling plaster rising from canal water https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/venice-accademia-view.jpg Venice, Italy — From the Accademia bridge, the Salute holding the December haze at arm's length View down the Grand Canal from the Accademia bridge toward the domes of Santa Maria della Salute in winter haze, Venice https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/london-great-court-lattice.jpg London, England — The Great Court's lattice printing itself across the Reading Room wall The British Museum Great Court's glass lattice roof casting diagonal shadows on the curved Reading Room wall https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/london-tower-bridge.jpg London, England — Tower Bridge holding its pose while the kayaks paddle through the frame Tower Bridge over the Thames with kayakers paddling in the foreground under a cloudy blue sky, London https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/rome-appia-arch-plane.jpg Rome, Italy — Twenty centuries between wingspans on the approach over the Appia Antica A Ryanair jet on approach passing behind a ruined Roman brick arch against blue sky, Rome https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/atri-portal-sun.jpg Atri, Italy — The sun taking its seat on a portal in Atri A stone portal silhouetted from below with a sunstar breaking over its carved pediment, Atri https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/london-eye.jpg London, England — The Eye counting clouds over the South Bank The full circle of the London Eye against blue sky and clouds with County Hall beside it https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/london-southwark-bridge.jpg London, England — Southwark Bridge in green and gold, Tower Bridge minding the horizon Southwark Bridge crossing the Thames with Tower Bridge and the city skyline behind, London https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/london-st-pauls.jpg London, England — St Paul's counting toward six on a blue August evening The west front of St Paul's Cathedral with its two towers and clock against deep blue sky, London https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/rome-colosseum.jpg Rome, Italy — The Colosseum's outer ring, still holding its arches to the sky Looking up at the curved upper arches and corbels of the Colosseum against deep blue sky, Rome https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/sri-lanka-fort-light.jpg Sri Lanka — Late sun finding the one arch it wanted inside the old fort Golden evening light striking an arched doorway inside a dark stone fort casemate with a grass courtyard beyond, Sri Lanka https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/palermo-lion-knocker.jpg Palermo, Italy — A lion demoted to door duty, still taking the post seriously Weathered wooden door panels with an iron lion-head knocker and ring, Palermo https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/palermo-balconies.jpg Palermo, Italy — Evening gilds every balcony equally, air conditioners included Sunlit apartment facade with rows of balconies, shutters and air conditioners, Palermo https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/frankfurt-romerberg.jpg Frankfurt, Germany — The Römerberg's rebuilt gables holding the last red light, the winter crowds not yet gone home Half-timbered gabled houses and a church spire around the Römerberg square at dusk with crowds, Frankfurt https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/dieppe-cliffs-town.jpg Dieppe, France — Dieppe's chalk face and its rooftops, with the turbines standing watch along the ridge White chalk cliffs and a coastal town seen across a wide bay, with wind turbines on the hill behind, Dieppe https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/paris-catacombs-plaque.jpg Paris, France — Skulls keeping their old audience under a stone epitaph about the schoolroom of the dead Rows of skulls above a carved stone plaque bearing a nineteenth-century French inscription, Paris Catacombs https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/almonaster-symbol-sculpture.jpg Almonaster, Spain — A white sculpture of symbols and mathematics watches the town of Almonaster from its high plaza, the castle tower still keeping guard above White modernist sculptural installation with carved symbols and mathematical notation, overlooking a hilltop town with castle, clear blue sky https://vivriccardo.com/themes/sacred/ 2026-08-08 monthly 0.8 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/vatican-sunset.jpg?r=2 Vatican City — The sky catches fire and the gulls take the long way home over Saint Peter's Gulls silhouetted against a fiery sunset sky above St Peter's Basilica, Vatican City https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/salamanca-cathedral.jpg Salamanca, Spain — Stone straining upward, as if the sky were a thing that could be reached Baroque cathedral tower in Salamanca seen from below https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/firenze-cloister.jpg Florence, Italy — A restless sky, cut to fit the quiet of a cloister Cloister arches framing a bright, cloud-streaked sky, Florence https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/florence-madonna.jpg Florence, Italy — Gold that has outlasted every hand once folded before it Detail of a gold-ground Madonna and Child panel painting, Florence https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/florence-fresco.jpg Florence, Italy — Angels caught mid-flight, and held there five centuries running Detail of a ceiling fresco depicting the Holy Family among angels https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/naples-san-gennaro-mural.jpg Naples, Italy — A towering mural of San Gennaro keeping watch over the laundry and balconies of Forcella Large street mural of San Gennaro towering over a narrow Naples street hung with laundry https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/india-temple-autos.jpg Tamil Nadu, India — Yellow auto-chariots wait their turn beneath towers that have been waiting far longer Row of yellow auto-rickshaws parked before two tall, colourful Hindu temple gopurams, Tamil Nadu https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/india-candles.jpg India — A handful of flames keeping vigil, the wax pooling like spent hours around them Several white candles burning with pooled melted wax against a dark background, India https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/cebu-family-meal-relief.jpg?r=2 Cebu, Philippines — A fisherman's family bowed over the day's catch, the grace carved as deep as the net behind them Carved wooden relief of a family with bowed heads saying grace around a table with fish, Cebu, Philippines https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/paris-sacre-coeur-dusk.jpg Paris, France — The steps of Sacré-Cœur at blue hour, the crowd settling in as the lamps take over Sacré-Cœur basilica illuminated at dusk with crowds sitting on the steps below, Montmartre, Paris https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/cebu-santo-nino-crucifix.jpg Cebu, Philippines — The crucifix holds still while the church keeps moving — prayers planted, a passer-by become a blur Worshippers standing before a crucifix altar while a passer-by blurs through the frame, Basilica del Santo Niño, Cebu https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/warsaw-lamentation-relief.jpg Warsaw, Poland — A Lamentation carved five centuries ago, the grief still legible in the grain Medieval carved wooden relief of the Lamentation of Christ displayed on a museum wall, Warsaw https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/milan-duomo-statues.jpg Milan, Italy — Two of the Duomo's thousands hold their poses, letting the shadows do the falling Two marble statues on carved brackets against the wall of Milan Cathedral, one inverted, with hard shadows https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/milan-duomo-spires.jpg Milan, Italy — The Duomo raises its marble forest into a May sky, a saint on every spire The Gothic spires and pinnacles of Milan Cathedral rising against a blue sky with light clouds https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/florence-san-marco-crucifixion.jpg Florence, Italy — Fra Angelico's Crucifixion filling the chapter-house wall, grief arranged like choreography Fra Angelico's Crucifixion with Saints fresco under a vaulted ceiling, San Marco, Florence https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/florence-san-marco-annunciation.jpg Florence, Italy — The Annunciation at the top of the dormitory stairs — angel and Virgin folded in the same bow Fra Angelico's Annunciation fresco with the angel Gabriel and Mary under painted arches, San Marco, Florence https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/florence-san-marco-paradise.jpg Florence, Italy — The saved dancing in a ring through Paradise — Fra Angelico counting his blessings in gold leaf Detail of Fra Angelico's Last Judgment showing angels and the blessed dancing in a garden, San Marco, Florence https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/florence-san-marco-inferno.jpg Florence, Italy — The other half of the Judgment — Fra Angelico's hell, tiered like a house with the worst neighbours Detail of Fra Angelico's Last Judgment showing the tiered punishments of hell, San Marco, Florence https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/salamanca-cathedral-dome.jpg Salamanca, Spain — Under the crossing of the New Cathedral, the dome opening overhead like a stone iris Looking straight up at the ornate crossing dome and ribbed vaults of Salamanca's New Cathedral https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/venice-church-candles.jpg Venice, Italy — A boy adds his candle to the rack, the prayer bigger than the hands carrying it A young boy lighting a taper candle at a votive candle rack inside a dark Venetian church https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/london-st-pauls.jpg London, England — St Paul's counting toward six on a blue August evening The west front of St Paul's Cathedral with its two towers and clock against deep blue sky, London https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/vatican-synod-lectionary.jpg Vatican City — The book open before St Peter's speaks — the morning the Synod began An open lectionary on a lectern facing the gilded apse and twin clocks inside St Peter's Basilica https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/sri-lanka-temple-relief.jpg Kelaniya, Sri Lanka — A temple guardian keeping her smile through the centuries of sun A carved stone relief of a serene female figure in a niche on a Sri Lankan temple wall, warm afternoon light https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/dambulla-reclining-buddha.jpg Dambulla, Sri Lanka — The reclining Buddha of the Dambulla caves, resting under a painted sky A golden reclining Buddha statue beneath a painted checkered cave ceiling at Dambulla, Sri Lanka https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/vatican-dome-gardens.jpg Vatican City — The dome doing its quiet morning rounds above the Vatican Gardens The dome of St Peter's Basilica seen through a gap in dark garden foliage in the Vatican Gardens https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/paris-catacombs-plaque.jpg Paris, France — Skulls keeping their old audience under a stone epitaph about the schoolroom of the dead Rows of skulls above a carved stone plaque bearing a nineteenth-century French inscription, Paris Catacombs https://vivriccardo.com/themes/streets/ 2026-08-08 monthly 0.8 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/pompeii-via.jpg Pompeii, Italy — A street still keeping its appointments two thousand years late, Vesuvius beyond Stone street in Pompeii with Vesuvius in the background https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/oxford-sheldonian.jpg Oxford, England — A dog sets the pace, three centuries of scholarship for a backdrop A man walking a Vizsla past the green dome of the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/florence-door.jpg Florence, Italy — Late afternoon, leaning gold against a tired shutter in the Oltrarno Old wooden shutter and window lit by warm afternoon light, Florence https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/oxford-cornmarket.jpg Oxford, England — A whole city folded into postcards, four for five pounds Vendor pushing a postcard cart through a busy Oxford shopping street https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/pompeii-forum.jpg Pompeii, Italy — An open square that still remembers the weight of a crowd Ruins of the forum at Pompeii with visitors walking through https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/oxford-brewer-street.jpg Oxford, England — A quiet procession of strangers, following a voice down Brewer Street A line of people on a walking tour passing the Brewer Street corner, Oxford https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/naples-san-gennaro-mural.jpg Naples, Italy — A towering mural of San Gennaro keeping watch over the laundry and balconies of Forcella Large street mural of San Gennaro towering over a narrow Naples street hung with laundry https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/budapest-ruin-bar.jpg Budapest, Hungary — A ruined courtyard taken over by plants, graffiti and slow afternoon drinks Plant-filled, graffiti-covered courtyard of a Budapest ruin bar with people at tables https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/florence-passersby.jpg Florence, Italy — The street rushes past in a blur, one still figure lost in her phone Blurred passersby on a sunlit Florence street with one seated person in sharp focus https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/budapest-market-oranges.jpg Budapest, Hungary — Bundles of dried oranges and spice, holding their colour through the seasons Hanging bundles of dried oranges and pomanders at a Budapest market stall https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/india-temple-autos.jpg Tamil Nadu, India — Yellow auto-chariots wait their turn beneath towers that have been waiting far longer Row of yellow auto-rickshaws parked before two tall, colourful Hindu temple gopurams, Tamil Nadu https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/krakow-square-sunset.jpg Kraków, Poland — The winter market mills in silhouette while the sky above the Cloth Hall burns down from violet to ember Crowds in silhouette on Krakow's main square at sunset with the lit Cloth Hall, Poland https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/warsaw-castle-square.jpg Warsaw, Poland — Sigismund keeps his column while December fills Castle Square below him Castle Square in Warsaw with Sigismund's Column, Christmas decorations and a decorated tree, December https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/paris-gepetto-bicycle.jpg?r=2 Paris, France — A bicycle retired into typography — Gepetto & Vélos, rue Daubenton, rust setting the type An old yellow bicycle painted with a bike shop's hand-lettered advertisement, chained to a green railing in Paris https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/london-embankment-sphinx.jpg London, England — A Victorian sphinx keeping its counsel on the Embankment while the Eye turns behind Bronze sphinx statue on Victoria Embankment in profile with the London Eye behind, London https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/oxford-christ-church-walkers.jpg Oxford, England — Six passers-by and one rainbow tote outside the college wall Six pedestrians walking in profile past a weathered stone college wall in Oxford, one carrying a rainbow tote bag https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/venice-gondola-canal.jpg Venice, Italy — A gondolier walking his boat off the wall at Salizzada San Todaro A gondolier pushing off a canal wall with his foot while steering passengers down a narrow Venetian canal https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/venice-shop-carving.jpg Venice, Italy — An old man surfacing out of driftwood in a shop window off the tourist current A carved wooden sculpture of an old bearded face emerging from driftwood in a Venetian shop window https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/venice-giudecca-winter.jpg Venice, Italy — Winter regulars on the Giudecca, San Giorgio keeping watch across the water People in winter coats walking along the Giudecca waterfront promenade with San Giorgio Maggiore behind, Venice https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/venice-water-taxis.jpg Venice, Italy — Water taxis crossing wakes on the green — Venice's rush hour, seen from a bridge Three wooden water taxis crossing paths on green canal water seen from above, Venice https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/venice-grand-canal-gondola.jpg Venice, Italy — The Grand Canal running its errands around one unhurried gondola A gondola with passengers crossing the Grand Canal among water taxis and work boats, Venice https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/venice-ferrovia-riverfront.jpg Venice, Italy — Ferrovia in thin winter sun — lamps, domes, and the Scalzi bridge holding the crowd The Grand Canal waterfront by Venice's railway station with ornate lampposts, the Scalzi bridge and a green church dome https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/london-great-court-shadows.jpg London, England — Museum visitors crossing the shadow net — everyone caught, nobody held Visitors seen from above crossing the British Museum Great Court floor through a net of lattice shadows https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/london-gunpowder-bench.jpg London, England — A quiet phone break in front of Britain's most daring conspiracy A young man seen from behind sitting on a bench checking his phone in front of a Gunpowder Plot banner, London https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/london-line-art-walkers.jpg London, England — Two travellers keeping pace with the line-art commuters on the wall A man and a woman pulling suitcases past a wall frieze of black line-art walking figures, London https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/amsterdam-bicycle-sea.jpg Amsterdam, Netherlands — Amsterdam's parking question, answered ten thousand times over A vast bicycle parking lot with thousands of bikes in rows outside Amsterdam's station https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/anagni-vespa.jpg Anagni, Italy — A Vespa taking the popes' town at walking pace A rider in a blue jacket and striped helmet crossing a cobbled square on a pale blue Vespa, Anagni https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/anagni-couple.jpg Anagni, Italy — Decades of practice at walking in step, Anagni keeping pace An elderly couple holding hands walking away down a cobbled street in Anagni, Italy https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/london-southbank-performer.jpg London, England — A performer holding her note and her pose while the South Bank walks past A street performer in a gold dress and red sunglasses reclining mid-act on the South Bank pavement, London https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/ostia-theatre-masks.jpg Ostia Antica, Italy — Returning the favour — photographing the masks that watched Ostia's theatre A man photographing giant carved marble theatre masks on pillars among umbrella pines at Ostia Antica https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/rome-monti-street.jpg Rome, Italy — Monti running downhill, Santa Maria Maggiore holding the far end A Monti street in Rome with trattoria sign, ivy wall, cafe terraces and the dome of Santa Maria Maggiore beyond https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/palermo-lion-knocker.jpg Palermo, Italy — A lion demoted to door duty, still taking the post seriously Weathered wooden door panels with an iron lion-head knocker and ring, Palermo https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/palermo-balconies.jpg Palermo, Italy — Evening gilds every balcony equally, air conditioners included Sunlit apartment facade with rows of balconies, shutters and air conditioners, Palermo https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/amsterdam-bikes-sunset.jpg Amsterdam, Netherlands — The same ten thousand bicycles, this time with the low sun behind them Thousands of parked bicycles filling a station square at sunset with office buildings behind, Amsterdam https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/frankfurt-romerberg.jpg Frankfurt, Germany — The Römerberg's rebuilt gables holding the last red light, the winter crowds not yet gone home Half-timbered gabled houses and a church spire around the Römerberg square at dusk with crowds, Frankfurt https://vivriccardo.com/themes/art/ 2026-08-08 monthly 0.8 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/salamanca-carousel.jpg Salamanca, Spain — A wooden horse forever mid-gallop, and never once arriving Painted carousel horse with Salamanca's old university buildings behind https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/florence-madonna.jpg Florence, Italy — Gold that has outlasted every hand once folded before it Detail of a gold-ground Madonna and Child panel painting, Florence https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/florence-fresco.jpg Florence, Italy — Angels caught mid-flight, and held there five centuries running Detail of a ceiling fresco depicting the Holy Family among angels https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/naples-san-gennaro-mural.jpg Naples, Italy — A towering mural of San Gennaro keeping watch over the laundry and balconies of Forcella Large street mural of San Gennaro towering over a narrow Naples street hung with laundry https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/budapest-ruin-bar.jpg Budapest, Hungary — A ruined courtyard taken over by plants, graffiti and slow afternoon drinks Plant-filled, graffiti-covered courtyard of a Budapest ruin bar with people at tables https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/budapest-liberty-statue.jpg Budapest, Hungary — The Liberty Statue lifts her palm while a jet rules one clean line across the sky Liberty Statue on Gellert Hill against a blue sky crossed by a jet contrail, Budapest https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/paris-arc-relief.jpg Paris, France — Rude's winged Liberty has been crying the call to arms since 1836, and the stone still hasn't drawn breath Black and white view of Francois Rude's La Marseillaise relief on the Arc de Triomphe, Paris https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/paris-pont-alexandre.jpg Paris, France — The bridge's bronze spirits lounge in their gold leaf, unbothered by the flat Paris sky behind them Gilded bronze sculptures on the Pont Alexandre III against a grey sky, Paris https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/krakow-pigeons-lamp.jpg Kraków, Poland — A lamp shaped like a pair of wings, claimed by a congregation of pigeons — one still bargaining for its landing Pigeons perched on a winged lamp fixture against a clear blue sky with one landing, Krakow https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/cebu-family-meal-relief.jpg?r=2 Cebu, Philippines — A fisherman's family bowed over the day's catch, the grace carved as deep as the net behind them Carved wooden relief of a family with bowed heads saying grace around a table with fish, Cebu, Philippines https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/warsaw-lamentation-relief.jpg Warsaw, Poland — A Lamentation carved five centuries ago, the grief still legible in the grain Medieval carved wooden relief of the Lamentation of Christ displayed on a museum wall, Warsaw https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/krakow-bernatek-acrobat.jpg Kraków, Poland — One of the Bernatek footbridge acrobats, holding its pose between red steel and the night Balancing acrobat sculpture suspended among red-lit steel struts of the Bernatek footbridge at night, Kraków https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/milan-duomo-statues.jpg Milan, Italy — Two of the Duomo's thousands hold their poses, letting the shadows do the falling Two marble statues on carved brackets against the wall of Milan Cathedral, one inverted, with hard shadows https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/bilbao-maman-spider.jpg Bilbao, Spain — Louise Bourgeois' Maman from directly beneath — thirty feet of bronze guarding a clutch of marble eggs Looking straight up at the underside of the giant Maman spider sculpture, its legs radiating against an overcast sky, Bilbao https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/florence-san-marco-crucifixion.jpg Florence, Italy — Fra Angelico's Crucifixion filling the chapter-house wall, grief arranged like choreography Fra Angelico's Crucifixion with Saints fresco under a vaulted ceiling, San Marco, Florence https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/florence-san-marco-annunciation.jpg Florence, Italy — The Annunciation at the top of the dormitory stairs — angel and Virgin folded in the same bow Fra Angelico's Annunciation fresco with the angel Gabriel and Mary under painted arches, San Marco, Florence https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/florence-san-marco-paradise.jpg Florence, Italy — The saved dancing in a ring through Paradise — Fra Angelico counting his blessings in gold leaf Detail of Fra Angelico's Last Judgment showing angels and the blessed dancing in a garden, San Marco, Florence https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/florence-san-marco-inferno.jpg Florence, Italy — The other half of the Judgment — Fra Angelico's hell, tiered like a house with the worst neighbours Detail of Fra Angelico's Last Judgment showing the tiered punishments of hell, San Marco, Florence https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/london-embankment-sphinx.jpg London, England — A Victorian sphinx keeping its counsel on the Embankment while the Eye turns behind Bronze sphinx statue on Victoria Embankment in profile with the London Eye behind, London https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/venice-shop-carving.jpg Venice, Italy — An old man surfacing out of driftwood in a shop window off the tourist current A carved wooden sculpture of an old bearded face emerging from driftwood in a Venetian shop window https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/london-great-court-lattice.jpg London, England — The Great Court's lattice printing itself across the Reading Room wall The British Museum Great Court's glass lattice roof casting diagonal shadows on the curved Reading Room wall https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/london-line-art-walkers.jpg London, England — Two travellers keeping pace with the line-art commuters on the wall A man and a woman pulling suitcases past a wall frieze of black line-art walking figures, London https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/ostia-theatre-masks.jpg Ostia Antica, Italy — Returning the favour — photographing the masks that watched Ostia's theatre A man photographing giant carved marble theatre masks on pillars among umbrella pines at Ostia Antica https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/sri-lanka-temple-relief.jpg Kelaniya, Sri Lanka — A temple guardian keeping her smile through the centuries of sun A carved stone relief of a serene female figure in a niche on a Sri Lankan temple wall, warm afternoon light https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/dambulla-reclining-buddha.jpg Dambulla, Sri Lanka — The reclining Buddha of the Dambulla caves, resting under a painted sky A golden reclining Buddha statue beneath a painted checkered cave ceiling at Dambulla, Sri Lanka https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/dachau-memorial.jpg Dachau, Germany — Nandor Glid's International Monument (1968) at the Dachau memorial — cast figures caught in the wire Silhouette from below of Nandor Glid's bronze memorial of emaciated figures entangled in barbed wire against a blue sky, Dachau https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/almonaster-symbol-sculpture.jpg Almonaster, Spain — A white sculpture of symbols and mathematics watches the town of Almonaster from its high plaza, the castle tower still keeping guard above White modernist sculptural installation with carved symbols and mathematical notation, overlooking a hilltop town with castle, clear blue sky https://vivriccardo.com/themes/people/ 2026-08-08 monthly 0.8 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/oxford-brewer-street.jpg Oxford, England — A quiet procession of strangers, following a voice down Brewer Street A line of people on a walking tour passing the Brewer Street corner, Oxford https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/florence-passersby.jpg Florence, Italy — The street rushes past in a blur, one still figure lost in her phone Blurred passersby on a sunlit Florence street with one seated person in sharp focus https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/india-drying-harvest.jpg Tamil Nadu, India — She folds the day's grain back toward the sun, her sari the very green of the leaves around her An elderly woman in a sari bending to spread drying crops in a shaded grove, Tamil Nadu https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/india-beach-line.jpg India — A line of children inks itself across the haze, the sea somewhere out past the glare Silhouetted line of schoolchildren walking across a vast hazy beach at low light, India https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/paris-eiffel-pigeon.jpg Paris, France — Everyone on the Champ de Mars aims at the same iron giant — and a pigeon crosses the frame as though it owns the sky A pigeon in flight crossing in front of the Eiffel Tower above crowds on the lawn, Paris https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/krakow-square-sunset.jpg Kraków, Poland — The winter market mills in silhouette while the sky above the Cloth Hall burns down from violet to ember Crowds in silhouette on Krakow's main square at sunset with the lit Cloth Hall, Poland https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/ireland-driftwood-beach.jpg Wexford, Ireland — A tangle of bleached driftwood makes a window onto the strand, and a single figure in red walks straight through it A person in red walking along a sandy beach seen through a frame of bleached driftwood branches, Ireland https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/ireland-glendalough-valley.jpg Glendalough, Ireland — The path threads a handful of walkers into the great bowl of the valley, the waterfall a thin white thread at its head Hikers walking a gravel path through the Glenealo valley at Glendalough with a distant waterfall, Ireland https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/paris-sacre-coeur-dusk.jpg Paris, France — The steps of Sacré-Cœur at blue hour, the crowd settling in as the lamps take over Sacré-Cœur basilica illuminated at dusk with crowds sitting on the steps below, Montmartre, Paris https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/cebu-santo-nino-crucifix.jpg Cebu, Philippines — The crucifix holds still while the church keeps moving — prayers planted, a passer-by become a blur Worshippers standing before a crucifix altar while a passer-by blurs through the frame, Basilica del Santo Niño, Cebu https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/bohol-chocolate-hills-viewpoint.jpg Bohol, Philippines — Coin-slot binoculars at the Chocolate Hills, and small hands reaching for a better look Children reaching up to coin-operated binoculars at the Chocolate Hills viewpoint, Bohol, Philippines https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/simbruini-ridge-walk.jpg Monti Simbruini, Italy — A walker takes the spine of the Simbruini, the path stitching one summit to the next A hiker with a backpack descending a narrow mountain ridge path in the Apennines under low cloud https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/oxford-christ-church-walkers.jpg Oxford, England — Six passers-by and one rainbow tote outside the college wall Six pedestrians walking in profile past a weathered stone college wall in Oxford, one carrying a rainbow tote bag https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/venice-gondola-canal.jpg Venice, Italy — A gondolier walking his boat off the wall at Salizzada San Todaro A gondolier pushing off a canal wall with his foot while steering passengers down a narrow Venetian canal https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/venice-church-candles.jpg Venice, Italy — A boy adds his candle to the rack, the prayer bigger than the hands carrying it A young boy lighting a taper candle at a votive candle rack inside a dark Venetian church https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/venice-giudecca-winter.jpg Venice, Italy — Winter regulars on the Giudecca, San Giorgio keeping watch across the water People in winter coats walking along the Giudecca waterfront promenade with San Giorgio Maggiore behind, Venice https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/london-great-court-shadows.jpg London, England — Museum visitors crossing the shadow net — everyone caught, nobody held Visitors seen from above crossing the British Museum Great Court floor through a net of lattice shadows https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/london-gunpowder-bench.jpg London, England — A quiet phone break in front of Britain's most daring conspiracy A young man seen from behind sitting on a bench checking his phone in front of a Gunpowder Plot banner, London https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/london-line-art-walkers.jpg London, England — Two travellers keeping pace with the line-art commuters on the wall A man and a woman pulling suitcases past a wall frieze of black line-art walking figures, London https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/anagni-vespa.jpg Anagni, Italy — A Vespa taking the popes' town at walking pace A rider in a blue jacket and striped helmet crossing a cobbled square on a pale blue Vespa, Anagni https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/anagni-couple.jpg Anagni, Italy — Decades of practice at walking in step, Anagni keeping pace An elderly couple holding hands walking away down a cobbled street in Anagni, Italy https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/london-southbank-performer.jpg London, England — A performer holding her note and her pose while the South Bank walks past A street performer in a gold dress and red sunglasses reclining mid-act on the South Bank pavement, London https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/ostia-theatre-masks.jpg Ostia Antica, Italy — Returning the favour — photographing the masks that watched Ostia's theatre A man photographing giant carved marble theatre masks on pillars among umbrella pines at Ostia Antica https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/rome-monti-street.jpg Rome, Italy — Monti running downhill, Santa Maria Maggiore holding the far end A Monti street in Rome with trattoria sign, ivy wall, cafe terraces and the dome of Santa Maria Maggiore beyond https://vivriccardo.com/themes/nature/ 2026-08-08 monthly 0.8 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/sri-lanka-sunset.jpg Sri Lanka — The day burns down to embers over the reef, the palms going dark Purple and orange sunset over a rocky shoreline with palm silhouettes, Sri Lanka https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/oxford-spider-web.jpg Oxford, England — A small architect mid-build, web strung against the green of Christ Church Meadow A spider on its web against a green, sunlit background, Christ Church Meadow, Oxford https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/thekkady-sunset.jpg Thekkady, India — For one minute the sun wins a gap in the cloud, and the whole valley seems to hold its breath Hazy orange sunset with the sun breaking through cloud over the Western Ghats, Thekkady https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/india-beach-line.jpg India — A line of children inks itself across the haze, the sea somewhere out past the glare Silhouetted line of schoolchildren walking across a vast hazy beach at low light, India https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/viterbo-panorama.jpg Viterbo, Italy — Umbrella pines stand sentry while the old town holds its dome up to a restless June sky Panorama of Viterbo with a domed church, umbrella pines and a green park under a blue sky https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/ireland-driftwood-beach.jpg Wexford, Ireland — A tangle of bleached driftwood makes a window onto the strand, and a single figure in red walks straight through it A person in red walking along a sandy beach seen through a frame of bleached driftwood branches, Ireland https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/ireland-glendalough-upper-lake.jpg Glendalough, Ireland — Glendalough's upper lake lies dark between the shoulders of the glen, the old miners' scar still pale on the far slope Glendalough Upper Lake between green and rocky mountains under a bright sky, County Wicklow, Ireland https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/ireland-mallard-river.jpg Glendalough, Ireland — A mallard works the shallows at eye level, unbothered, the river behind it dissolved into soft light A mallard duck dabbling at the pebbly edge of a sunlit river, Glendalough, Ireland https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/ireland-glendalough-valley.jpg Glendalough, Ireland — The path threads a handful of walkers into the great bowl of the valley, the waterfall a thin white thread at its head Hikers walking a gravel path through the Glenealo valley at Glendalough with a distant waterfall, Ireland https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/bohol-chocolate-hills-viewpoint.jpg Bohol, Philippines — Coin-slot binoculars at the Chocolate Hills, and small hands reaching for a better look Children reaching up to coin-operated binoculars at the Chocolate Hills viewpoint, Bohol, Philippines https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/krakow-winter-contrails.jpg Kraków, Poland — Two jets crossed the bare canopy and left an X to mark the winter sky Two contrails crossing in a blue winter sky framed by bare tree branches, Kraków https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/gandikota-penna-gorge.jpg Gandikota, India — The Penna river threading the gorge it spent an age carving through Gandikota's red rock The green Penna river running through the red rock canyon at Gandikota, Andhra Pradesh, India https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/simbruini-ridge-walk.jpg Monti Simbruini, Italy — A walker takes the spine of the Simbruini, the path stitching one summit to the next A hiker with a backpack descending a narrow mountain ridge path in the Apennines under low cloud https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/loyola-basque-reservoir.jpg Loyola, Spain — The valley above Loyola holds its water still, the hills leaning in green on green A calm reservoir surrounded by densely forested green hills under a blue sky in the Basque Country https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/normandy-chalk-cliffs.jpg Normandy, France — The alabaster coast walking off toward Dieppe, flint and chalk underfoot White chalk cliffs above a pebble and sand beach at low tide on the Normandy coast https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/normandy-gull-surf.jpg Normandy, France — A young gull working the surf line where the Channel turns to foam A juvenile gull flying low over breaking surf on the Normandy coast https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/kerala-sunrise-ridge.jpg Kerala, India — Seven in the morning over the Kerala hills, the sun counting its rays out loud Sunrise breaking over a forested ridge in Kerala with dramatic rays fanning through clouds https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/karnataka-ivy-wall.jpg Karnataka, India — A wall given over entirely to green A dense wall of overlapping green ivy leaves filling the whole frame, Karnataka https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/karnataka-sunset.jpg Karnataka, India — The sun going down through bare branches over the Karnataka haze An orange sun setting through silhouetted bare tree branches in Karnataka, India https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/sri-lanka-doves-wire.jpg Sri Lanka — Two spotted doves conferring on a wire before the day gets hot Two spotted doves perched close together on a power line among silhouetted palm trees, Sri Lanka https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/sigiriya-from-pidurangala.jpg Sigiriya, Sri Lanka — Lion Rock holding court over the plain, seen from Pidurangala at seven in the morning Sigiriya rock fortress rising from forested plains seen from Pidurangala rock with a boulder in the foreground, Sri Lanka https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/vatican-dome-gardens.jpg Vatican City — The dome doing its quiet morning rounds above the Vatican Gardens The dome of St Peter's Basilica seen through a gap in dark garden foliage in the Vatican Gardens https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/palermo-sea-rocks.jpg Palermo, Italy — The Tyrrhenian worrying the same rocks it has worried for millennia White surf churning over dark flat rocks seen from above on the Palermo coast https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/germany-railway-junction.jpg Germany — A set of points on the main line, the rails picking their way toward the hills Railway tracks converging at a set of points with overhead wires and a wooded hillside behind, Germany https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/normandy-dusk-branches.jpg Normandy, France — A dead branch keeping its silhouette while the sky above the alabaster coast won't stop burning Silhouette of bare, leafless tree branches against a golden and orange sunset sky with dramatic clouds, Normandy https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/normandy-dusk-daisies.jpg Normandy, France — Ox-eye daisies keeping their heads up long after the sun had officially given in White daisies backlit against a blue and orange dusk sky, with tall grass and water in the blurred background, Normandy https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/normandy-dusk-tree-channel.jpg Normandy, France — A lone tree minding the Channel as the blue hour settles in for the night Silhouette of a large tree against a deep blue dusk sky overlooking the sea horizon, Normandy https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/dieppe-cliffs-town.jpg Dieppe, France — Dieppe's chalk face and its rooftops, with the turbines standing watch along the ridge White chalk cliffs and a coastal town seen across a wide bay, with wind turbines on the hill behind, Dieppe https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/france-wheat-field.jpg France — A spider staking its claim on the tallest ear in the field before anyone else could Close-up of ripening wheat ears with a spider web strung between the stalks, hedgerow blurred in the background https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/corteconcepcion-frost-hedge.jpg Corteconcepción, Spain — A frost-laden hedge holds the morning light at its edge, the rest of the world a dark silhouette below Frost-covered sparse vegetation backlit against bright blue sky, creating white crystalline silhouette against clear background https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/corteconcepcion-sunrise-foliage.jpg Corteconcepción, Spain — Flowers and leaves catch fire from behind as the sun breaks open the sky Silhouetted flowering branches and foliage backlit by golden sunrise, creating warm amber glow through plant structures https://vivriccardo.com/themes/skies/ 2026-08-08 monthly 0.8 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/rome-festa-della-repubblica.jpg Rome, Italy — Three colours breathed across the sky, gone before they fall Aerobatic formation trailing tricolour smoke over Rome https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/vatican-sunset.jpg?r=2 Vatican City — The sky catches fire and the gulls take the long way home over Saint Peter's Gulls silhouetted against a fiery sunset sky above St Peter's Basilica, Vatican City https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/firenze-cloister.jpg Florence, Italy — A restless sky, cut to fit the quiet of a cloister Cloister arches framing a bright, cloud-streaked sky, Florence https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/salamanca-dusk.jpg Salamanca, Spain — The minute the towers trade daylight for lamplight Salamanca skyline at dusk with cathedral towers and a lit carousel https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/salamanca-rooftop.jpg Salamanca, Spain — Starlings lined along the tiles, rehearsing the day's last word Hundreds of starlings lined along a terracotta tiled roof in Salamanca https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/sri-lanka-sunset.jpg Sri Lanka — The day burns down to embers over the reef, the palms going dark Purple and orange sunset over a rocky shoreline with palm silhouettes, Sri Lanka https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/budapest-liberty-statue.jpg Budapest, Hungary — The Liberty Statue lifts her palm while a jet rules one clean line across the sky Liberty Statue on Gellert Hill against a blue sky crossed by a jet contrail, Budapest https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/thekkady-sunset.jpg Thekkady, India — For one minute the sun wins a gap in the cloud, and the whole valley seems to hold its breath Hazy orange sunset with the sun breaking through cloud over the Western Ghats, Thekkady https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/krakow-square-sunset.jpg Kraków, Poland — The winter market mills in silhouette while the sky above the Cloth Hall burns down from violet to ember Crowds in silhouette on Krakow's main square at sunset with the lit Cloth Hall, Poland https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/krakow-barbican-silhouette.jpg Kraków, Poland — The old gate goes flat and black against the last blue, its little flags still bristling on every spire Silhouetted spires and flags of Krakow's old defences against a blue dusk sky, Poland https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/krakow-winter-contrails.jpg Kraków, Poland — Two jets crossed the bare canopy and left an X to mark the winter sky Two contrails crossing in a blue winter sky framed by bare tree branches, Kraków https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/milan-duomo-spires.jpg Milan, Italy — The Duomo raises its marble forest into a May sky, a saint on every spire The Gothic spires and pinnacles of Milan Cathedral rising against a blue sky with light clouds https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/venice-accademia-view.jpg Venice, Italy — From the Accademia bridge, the Salute holding the December haze at arm's length View down the Grand Canal from the Accademia bridge toward the domes of Santa Maria della Salute in winter haze, Venice https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/kerala-sunrise-ridge.jpg Kerala, India — Seven in the morning over the Kerala hills, the sun counting its rays out loud Sunrise breaking over a forested ridge in Kerala with dramatic rays fanning through clouds https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/rome-appia-arch-plane.jpg Rome, Italy — Twenty centuries between wingspans on the approach over the Appia Antica A Ryanair jet on approach passing behind a ruined Roman brick arch against blue sky, Rome https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/atri-portal-sun.jpg Atri, Italy — The sun taking its seat on a portal in Atri A stone portal silhouetted from below with a sunstar breaking over its carved pediment, Atri https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/ireland-islander-plane.jpg Ireland — Nine seats to the islands, waiting out the squall A small twin-propeller Islander aircraft on wet tarmac under dramatic clouds, Ireland https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/karnataka-sunset.jpg Karnataka, India — The sun going down through bare branches over the Karnataka haze An orange sun setting through silhouetted bare tree branches in Karnataka, India https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/sigiriya-from-pidurangala.jpg Sigiriya, Sri Lanka — Lion Rock holding court over the plain, seen from Pidurangala at seven in the morning Sigiriya rock fortress rising from forested plains seen from Pidurangala rock with a boulder in the foreground, Sri Lanka https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/normandy-dusk-branches.jpg Normandy, France — A dead branch keeping its silhouette while the sky above the alabaster coast won't stop burning Silhouette of bare, leafless tree branches against a golden and orange sunset sky with dramatic clouds, Normandy https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/normandy-dusk-tree-channel.jpg Normandy, France — A lone tree minding the Channel as the blue hour settles in for the night Silhouette of a large tree against a deep blue dusk sky overlooking the sea horizon, Normandy https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/corteconcepcion-frost-hedge.jpg Corteconcepción, Spain — A frost-laden hedge holds the morning light at its edge, the rest of the world a dark silhouette below Frost-covered sparse vegetation backlit against bright blue sky, creating white crystalline silhouette against clear background https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/corteconcepcion-sunrise-foliage.jpg Corteconcepción, Spain — Flowers and leaves catch fire from behind as the sun breaks open the sky Silhouetted flowering branches and foliage backlit by golden sunrise, creating warm amber glow through plant structures https://vivriccardo.com/themes/animals/ 2026-08-08 monthly 0.8 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/oxford-sheldonian.jpg Oxford, England — A dog sets the pace, three centuries of scholarship for a backdrop A man walking a Vizsla past the green dome of the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/salamanca-rooftop.jpg Salamanca, Spain — Starlings lined along the tiles, rehearsing the day's last word Hundreds of starlings lined along a terracotta tiled roof in Salamanca https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/oxford-spider-web.jpg Oxford, England — A small architect mid-build, web strung against the green of Christ Church Meadow A spider on its web against a green, sunlit background, Christ Church Meadow, Oxford https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/paris-eiffel-pigeon.jpg Paris, France — Everyone on the Champ de Mars aims at the same iron giant — and a pigeon crosses the frame as though it owns the sky A pigeon in flight crossing in front of the Eiffel Tower above crowds on the lawn, Paris https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/krakow-pigeons-lamp.jpg Kraków, Poland — A lamp shaped like a pair of wings, claimed by a congregation of pigeons — one still bargaining for its landing Pigeons perched on a winged lamp fixture against a clear blue sky with one landing, Krakow https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/ireland-mallard-river.jpg Glendalough, Ireland — A mallard works the shallows at eye level, unbothered, the river behind it dissolved into soft light A mallard duck dabbling at the pebbly edge of a sunlit river, Glendalough, Ireland https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/andhra-roadside-cow.jpg Andhra Pradesh, India — Tethered in the roadside shade, she watched us longer than we watched her A tethered cow looking at the camera from behind a tree trunk in roadside shade, Andhra Pradesh, India https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/bilbao-maman-spider.jpg Bilbao, Spain — Louise Bourgeois' Maman from directly beneath — thirty feet of bronze guarding a clutch of marble eggs Looking straight up at the underside of the giant Maman spider sculpture, its legs radiating against an overcast sky, Bilbao https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/normandy-gull-surf.jpg Normandy, France — A young gull working the surf line where the Channel turns to foam A juvenile gull flying low over breaking surf on the Normandy coast https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/sri-lanka-doves-wire.jpg Sri Lanka — Two spotted doves conferring on a wire before the day gets hot Two spotted doves perched close together on a power line among silhouetted palm trees, Sri Lanka https://vivriccardo.com/themes/water/ 2026-08-08 monthly 0.8 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/florence-ponte-vecchio.jpg Florence, Italy — Ponte Vecchio holding still long enough for the Arno to copy it Ponte Vecchio and its reflection in the calm Arno at golden hour, Florence https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/budapest-liberty-bridge.jpg Budapest, Hungary — The green ironwork of Liberty Bridge, two boats slipping past beneath on the Danube Liberty Bridge over the Danube with sightseeing boats passing beneath, Budapest https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/sri-lanka-sunset.jpg Sri Lanka — The day burns down to embers over the reef, the palms going dark Purple and orange sunset over a rocky shoreline with palm silhouettes, Sri Lanka https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/india-beach-line.jpg India — A line of children inks itself across the haze, the sea somewhere out past the glare Silhouetted line of schoolchildren walking across a vast hazy beach at low light, India https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/ireland-driftwood-beach.jpg Wexford, Ireland — A tangle of bleached driftwood makes a window onto the strand, and a single figure in red walks straight through it A person in red walking along a sandy beach seen through a frame of bleached driftwood branches, Ireland https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/ireland-glendalough-upper-lake.jpg Glendalough, Ireland — Glendalough's upper lake lies dark between the shoulders of the glen, the old miners' scar still pale on the far slope Glendalough Upper Lake between green and rocky mountains under a bright sky, County Wicklow, Ireland https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/ireland-mallard-river.jpg Glendalough, Ireland — A mallard works the shallows at eye level, unbothered, the river behind it dissolved into soft light A mallard duck dabbling at the pebbly edge of a sunlit river, Glendalough, Ireland https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/krakow-vistula-bridges-night.jpg?r=2 Kraków, Poland — Lattice arches throwing their light back into the Vistula on a December night Illuminated lattice arch bridges reflected in the Vistula river at night, Kraków https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/gandikota-penna-gorge.jpg Gandikota, India — The Penna river threading the gorge it spent an age carving through Gandikota's red rock The green Penna river running through the red rock canyon at Gandikota, Andhra Pradesh, India https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/loyola-basque-reservoir.jpg Loyola, Spain — The valley above Loyola holds its water still, the hills leaning in green on green A calm reservoir surrounded by densely forested green hills under a blue sky in the Basque Country https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/normandy-chalk-cliffs.jpg Normandy, France — The alabaster coast walking off toward Dieppe, flint and chalk underfoot White chalk cliffs above a pebble and sand beach at low tide on the Normandy coast https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/normandy-gull-surf.jpg Normandy, France — A young gull working the surf line where the Channel turns to foam A juvenile gull flying low over breaking surf on the Normandy coast https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/venice-gondola-canal.jpg Venice, Italy — A gondolier walking his boat off the wall at Salizzada San Todaro A gondolier pushing off a canal wall with his foot while steering passengers down a narrow Venetian canal https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/venice-giudecca-winter.jpg Venice, Italy — Winter regulars on the Giudecca, San Giorgio keeping watch across the water People in winter coats walking along the Giudecca waterfront promenade with San Giorgio Maggiore behind, Venice https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/venice-water-taxis.jpg Venice, Italy — Water taxis crossing wakes on the green — Venice's rush hour, seen from a bridge Three wooden water taxis crossing paths on green canal water seen from above, Venice https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/venice-grand-canal-gondola.jpg Venice, Italy — The Grand Canal running its errands around one unhurried gondola A gondola with passengers crossing the Grand Canal among water taxis and work boats, Venice https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/venice-ferrovia-riverfront.jpg Venice, Italy — Ferrovia in thin winter sun — lamps, domes, and the Scalzi bridge holding the crowd The Grand Canal waterfront by Venice's railway station with ornate lampposts, the Scalzi bridge and a green church dome https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/venice-palazzo-facade.jpg Venice, Italy — A palazzo wearing its centuries down to the waterline A weathered Venetian palazzo facade with arched windows and peeling plaster rising from canal water https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/venice-accademia-view.jpg Venice, Italy — From the Accademia bridge, the Salute holding the December haze at arm's length View down the Grand Canal from the Accademia bridge toward the domes of Santa Maria della Salute in winter haze, Venice https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/london-tower-bridge.jpg London, England — Tower Bridge holding its pose while the kayaks paddle through the frame Tower Bridge over the Thames with kayakers paddling in the foreground under a cloudy blue sky, London https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/london-southwark-bridge.jpg London, England — Southwark Bridge in green and gold, Tower Bridge minding the horizon Southwark Bridge crossing the Thames with Tower Bridge and the city skyline behind, London https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/palermo-sea-rocks.jpg Palermo, Italy — The Tyrrhenian worrying the same rocks it has worried for millennia White surf churning over dark flat rocks seen from above on the Palermo coast https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/normandy-dusk-tree-channel.jpg Normandy, France — A lone tree minding the Channel as the blue hour settles in for the night Silhouette of a large tree against a deep blue dusk sky overlooking the sea horizon, Normandy https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/dieppe-cliffs-town.jpg Dieppe, France — Dieppe's chalk face and its rooftops, with the turbines standing watch along the ridge White chalk cliffs and a coastal town seen across a wide bay, with wind turbines on the hill behind, Dieppe https://vivriccardo.com/themes/night/ 2026-08-08 monthly 0.8 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/salamanca-dusk.jpg Salamanca, Spain — The minute the towers trade daylight for lamplight Salamanca skyline at dusk with cathedral towers and a lit carousel https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/krakow-barbican-silhouette.jpg Kraków, Poland — The old gate goes flat and black against the last blue, its little flags still bristling on every spire Silhouetted spires and flags of Krakow's old defences against a blue dusk sky, Poland https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/paris-sacre-coeur-dusk.jpg Paris, France — The steps of Sacré-Cœur at blue hour, the crowd settling in as the lamps take over Sacré-Cœur basilica illuminated at dusk with crowds sitting on the steps below, Montmartre, Paris https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/krakow-vistula-bridges-night.jpg?r=2 Kraków, Poland — Lattice arches throwing their light back into the Vistula on a December night Illuminated lattice arch bridges reflected in the Vistula river at night, Kraków https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/krakow-bernatek-acrobat.jpg Kraków, Poland — One of the Bernatek footbridge acrobats, holding its pose between red steel and the night Balancing acrobat sculpture suspended among red-lit steel struts of the Bernatek footbridge at night, Kraków https://vivriccardo.com/photo/rome-festa-della-repubblica/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/rome-festa-della-repubblica.jpg Rome, Italy — Three colours breathed across the sky, gone before they fall Aerobatic formation trailing tricolour smoke over Rome https://vivriccardo.com/photo/vatican-sunset/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/vatican-sunset.jpg?r=2 Vatican City — The sky catches fire and the gulls take the long way home over Saint Peter's Gulls silhouetted against a fiery sunset sky above St Peter's Basilica, Vatican City https://vivriccardo.com/photo/pompeii-via/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/pompeii-via.jpg Pompeii, Italy — A street still keeping its appointments two thousand years late, Vesuvius beyond Stone street in Pompeii with Vesuvius in the background https://vivriccardo.com/photo/salamanca-cathedral/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/salamanca-cathedral.jpg Salamanca, Spain — Stone straining upward, as if the sky were a thing that could be reached Baroque cathedral tower in Salamanca seen from below https://vivriccardo.com/photo/oxford-sheldonian/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/oxford-sheldonian.jpg Oxford, England — A dog sets the pace, three centuries of scholarship for a backdrop A man walking a Vizsla past the green dome of the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford https://vivriccardo.com/photo/florence-door/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/florence-door.jpg Florence, Italy — Late afternoon, leaning gold against a tired shutter in the Oltrarno Old wooden shutter and window lit by warm afternoon light, Florence https://vivriccardo.com/photo/salamanca-carousel/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/salamanca-carousel.jpg Salamanca, Spain — A wooden horse forever mid-gallop, and never once arriving Painted carousel horse with Salamanca's old university buildings behind https://vivriccardo.com/photo/firenze-cloister/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/firenze-cloister.jpg Florence, Italy — A restless sky, cut to fit the quiet of a cloister Cloister arches framing a bright, cloud-streaked sky, Florence https://vivriccardo.com/photo/florence-madonna/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/florence-madonna.jpg Florence, Italy — Gold that has outlasted every hand once folded before it Detail of a gold-ground Madonna and Child panel painting, Florence https://vivriccardo.com/photo/oxford-cornmarket/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/oxford-cornmarket.jpg Oxford, England — A whole city folded into postcards, four for five pounds Vendor pushing a postcard cart through a busy Oxford shopping street https://vivriccardo.com/photo/salamanca-dusk/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/salamanca-dusk.jpg Salamanca, Spain — The minute the towers trade daylight for lamplight Salamanca skyline at dusk with cathedral towers and a lit carousel https://vivriccardo.com/photo/pompeii-forum/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/pompeii-forum.jpg Pompeii, Italy — An open square that still remembers the weight of a crowd Ruins of the forum at Pompeii with visitors walking through https://vivriccardo.com/photo/oxford-brewer-street/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/oxford-brewer-street.jpg Oxford, England — A quiet procession of strangers, following a voice down Brewer Street A line of people on a walking tour passing the Brewer Street corner, Oxford https://vivriccardo.com/photo/salamanca-rooftop/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/salamanca-rooftop.jpg Salamanca, Spain — Starlings lined along the tiles, rehearsing the day's last word Hundreds of starlings lined along a terracotta tiled roof in Salamanca https://vivriccardo.com/photo/florence-fresco/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/florence-fresco.jpg Florence, Italy — Angels caught mid-flight, and held there five centuries running Detail of a ceiling fresco depicting the Holy Family among angels https://vivriccardo.com/photo/florence-ponte-vecchio/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/florence-ponte-vecchio.jpg Florence, Italy — Ponte Vecchio holding still long enough for the Arno to copy it Ponte Vecchio and its reflection in the calm Arno at golden hour, Florence https://vivriccardo.com/photo/budapest-liberty-bridge/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/budapest-liberty-bridge.jpg Budapest, Hungary — The green ironwork of Liberty Bridge, two boats slipping past beneath on the Danube Liberty Bridge over the Danube with sightseeing boats passing beneath, Budapest https://vivriccardo.com/photo/sri-lanka-sunset/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/sri-lanka-sunset.jpg Sri Lanka — The day burns down to embers over the reef, the palms going dark Purple and orange sunset over a rocky shoreline with palm silhouettes, Sri Lanka https://vivriccardo.com/photo/naples-san-gennaro-mural/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/naples-san-gennaro-mural.jpg Naples, Italy — A towering mural of San Gennaro keeping watch over the laundry and balconies of Forcella Large street mural of San Gennaro towering over a narrow Naples street hung with laundry https://vivriccardo.com/photo/budapest-ruin-bar/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/budapest-ruin-bar.jpg Budapest, Hungary — A ruined courtyard taken over by plants, graffiti and slow afternoon drinks Plant-filled, graffiti-covered courtyard of a Budapest ruin bar with people at tables https://vivriccardo.com/photo/oxford-spider-web/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/oxford-spider-web.jpg Oxford, England — A small architect mid-build, web strung against the green of Christ Church Meadow A spider on its web against a green, sunlit background, Christ Church Meadow, Oxford https://vivriccardo.com/photo/budapest-liberty-statue/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/budapest-liberty-statue.jpg Budapest, Hungary — The Liberty Statue lifts her palm while a jet rules one clean line across the sky Liberty Statue on Gellert Hill against a blue sky crossed by a jet contrail, Budapest https://vivriccardo.com/photo/florence-passersby/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/florence-passersby.jpg Florence, Italy — The street rushes past in a blur, one still figure lost in her phone Blurred passersby on a sunlit Florence street with one seated person in sharp focus https://vivriccardo.com/photo/budapest-market-oranges/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/budapest-market-oranges.jpg Budapest, Hungary — Bundles of dried oranges and spice, holding their colour through the seasons Hanging bundles of dried oranges and pomanders at a Budapest market stall https://vivriccardo.com/photo/india-temple-autos/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/india-temple-autos.jpg Tamil Nadu, India — Yellow auto-chariots wait their turn beneath towers that have been waiting far longer Row of yellow auto-rickshaws parked before two tall, colourful Hindu temple gopurams, Tamil Nadu https://vivriccardo.com/photo/india-drying-harvest/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/india-drying-harvest.jpg Tamil Nadu, India — She folds the day's grain back toward the sun, her sari the very green of the leaves around her An elderly woman in a sari bending to spread drying crops in a shaded grove, Tamil Nadu https://vivriccardo.com/photo/thekkady-sunset/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/thekkady-sunset.jpg Thekkady, India — For one minute the sun wins a gap in the cloud, and the whole valley seems to hold its breath Hazy orange sunset with the sun breaking through cloud over the Western Ghats, Thekkady https://vivriccardo.com/photo/india-beach-line/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/india-beach-line.jpg India — A line of children inks itself across the haze, the sea somewhere out past the glare Silhouetted line of schoolchildren walking across a vast hazy beach at low light, India https://vivriccardo.com/photo/viterbo-panorama/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/viterbo-panorama.jpg Viterbo, Italy — Umbrella pines stand sentry while the old town holds its dome up to a restless June sky Panorama of Viterbo with a domed church, umbrella pines and a green park under a blue sky https://vivriccardo.com/photo/india-candles/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/india-candles.jpg India — A handful of flames keeping vigil, the wax pooling like spent hours around them Several white candles burning with pooled melted wax against a dark background, India https://vivriccardo.com/photo/paris-eiffel-pigeon/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/paris-eiffel-pigeon.jpg Paris, France — Everyone on the Champ de Mars aims at the same iron giant — and a pigeon crosses the frame as though it owns the sky A pigeon in flight crossing in front of the Eiffel Tower above crowds on the lawn, Paris https://vivriccardo.com/photo/paris-arc-relief/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/paris-arc-relief.jpg Paris, France — Rude's winged Liberty has been crying the call to arms since 1836, and the stone still hasn't drawn breath Black and white view of Francois Rude's La Marseillaise relief on the Arc de Triomphe, Paris https://vivriccardo.com/photo/paris-rooftops/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/paris-rooftops.jpg Paris, France — A grey tide of rooftops running clear to the towers, one red crane stitching the old city to the new Paris rooftops stretching to the horizon under an overcast sky with a red crane, Paris https://vivriccardo.com/photo/paris-pont-alexandre/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/paris-pont-alexandre.jpg Paris, France — The bridge's bronze spirits lounge in their gold leaf, unbothered by the flat Paris sky behind them Gilded bronze sculptures on the Pont Alexandre III against a grey sky, Paris https://vivriccardo.com/photo/krakow-square-sunset/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/krakow-square-sunset.jpg Kraków, Poland — The winter market mills in silhouette while the sky above the Cloth Hall burns down from violet to ember Crowds in silhouette on Krakow's main square at sunset with the lit Cloth Hall, Poland https://vivriccardo.com/photo/krakow-pigeons-lamp/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/krakow-pigeons-lamp.jpg Kraków, Poland — A lamp shaped like a pair of wings, claimed by a congregation of pigeons — one still bargaining for its landing Pigeons perched on a winged lamp fixture against a clear blue sky with one landing, Krakow https://vivriccardo.com/photo/krakow-barbican-silhouette/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/krakow-barbican-silhouette.jpg Kraków, Poland — The old gate goes flat and black against the last blue, its little flags still bristling on every spire Silhouetted spires and flags of Krakow's old defences against a blue dusk sky, Poland https://vivriccardo.com/photo/ireland-driftwood-beach/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/ireland-driftwood-beach.jpg Wexford, Ireland — A tangle of bleached driftwood makes a window onto the strand, and a single figure in red walks straight through it A person in red walking along a sandy beach seen through a frame of bleached driftwood branches, Ireland https://vivriccardo.com/photo/ireland-glendalough-upper-lake/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/ireland-glendalough-upper-lake.jpg Glendalough, Ireland — Glendalough's upper lake lies dark between the shoulders of the glen, the old miners' scar still pale on the far slope Glendalough Upper Lake between green and rocky mountains under a bright sky, County Wicklow, Ireland https://vivriccardo.com/photo/ireland-mallard-river/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/ireland-mallard-river.jpg Glendalough, Ireland — A mallard works the shallows at eye level, unbothered, the river behind it dissolved into soft light A mallard duck dabbling at the pebbly edge of a sunlit river, Glendalough, Ireland https://vivriccardo.com/photo/ireland-glendalough-valley/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/ireland-glendalough-valley.jpg Glendalough, Ireland — The path threads a handful of walkers into the great bowl of the valley, the waterfall a thin white thread at its head Hikers walking a gravel path through the Glenealo valley at Glendalough with a distant waterfall, Ireland https://vivriccardo.com/photo/cebu-family-meal-relief/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/cebu-family-meal-relief.jpg?r=2 Cebu, Philippines — A fisherman's family bowed over the day's catch, the grace carved as deep as the net behind them Carved wooden relief of a family with bowed heads saying grace around a table with fish, Cebu, Philippines https://vivriccardo.com/photo/andhra-roadside-cow/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/andhra-roadside-cow.jpg Andhra Pradesh, India — Tethered in the roadside shade, she watched us longer than we watched her A tethered cow looking at the camera from behind a tree trunk in roadside shade, Andhra Pradesh, India https://vivriccardo.com/photo/paris-sacre-coeur-dusk/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/paris-sacre-coeur-dusk.jpg Paris, France — The steps of Sacré-Cœur at blue hour, the crowd settling in as the lamps take over Sacré-Cœur basilica illuminated at dusk with crowds sitting on the steps below, Montmartre, Paris https://vivriccardo.com/photo/cebu-santo-nino-crucifix/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/cebu-santo-nino-crucifix.jpg Cebu, Philippines — The crucifix holds still while the church keeps moving — prayers planted, a passer-by become a blur Worshippers standing before a crucifix altar while a passer-by blurs through the frame, Basilica del Santo Niño, Cebu https://vivriccardo.com/photo/bohol-chocolate-hills-viewpoint/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/bohol-chocolate-hills-viewpoint.jpg Bohol, Philippines — Coin-slot binoculars at the Chocolate Hills, and small hands reaching for a better look Children reaching up to coin-operated binoculars at the Chocolate Hills viewpoint, Bohol, Philippines https://vivriccardo.com/photo/warsaw-castle-square/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/warsaw-castle-square.jpg Warsaw, Poland — Sigismund keeps his column while December fills Castle Square below him Castle Square in Warsaw with Sigismund's Column, Christmas decorations and a decorated tree, December https://vivriccardo.com/photo/warsaw-lamentation-relief/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/warsaw-lamentation-relief.jpg Warsaw, Poland — A Lamentation carved five centuries ago, the grief still legible in the grain Medieval carved wooden relief of the Lamentation of Christ displayed on a museum wall, Warsaw https://vivriccardo.com/photo/krakow-vistula-bridges-night/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/krakow-vistula-bridges-night.jpg?r=2 Kraków, Poland — Lattice arches throwing their light back into the Vistula on a December night Illuminated lattice arch bridges reflected in the Vistula river at night, Kraków https://vivriccardo.com/photo/krakow-winter-contrails/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/krakow-winter-contrails.jpg Kraków, Poland — Two jets crossed the bare canopy and left an X to mark the winter sky Two contrails crossing in a blue winter sky framed by bare tree branches, Kraków https://vivriccardo.com/photo/krakow-bernatek-acrobat/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/krakow-bernatek-acrobat.jpg Kraków, Poland — One of the Bernatek footbridge acrobats, holding its pose between red steel and the night Balancing acrobat sculpture suspended among red-lit steel struts of the Bernatek footbridge at night, Kraków https://vivriccardo.com/photo/gandikota-penna-gorge/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/gandikota-penna-gorge.jpg Gandikota, India — The Penna river threading the gorge it spent an age carving through Gandikota's red rock The green Penna river running through the red rock canyon at Gandikota, Andhra Pradesh, India https://vivriccardo.com/photo/milan-duomo-statues/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/milan-duomo-statues.jpg Milan, Italy — Two of the Duomo's thousands hold their poses, letting the shadows do the falling Two marble statues on carved brackets against the wall of Milan Cathedral, one inverted, with hard shadows https://vivriccardo.com/photo/milan-duomo-spires/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/milan-duomo-spires.jpg Milan, Italy — The Duomo raises its marble forest into a May sky, a saint on every spire The Gothic spires and pinnacles of Milan Cathedral rising against a blue sky with light clouds https://vivriccardo.com/photo/simbruini-ridge-walk/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/simbruini-ridge-walk.jpg Monti Simbruini, Italy — A walker takes the spine of the Simbruini, the path stitching one summit to the next A hiker with a backpack descending a narrow mountain ridge path in the Apennines under low cloud https://vivriccardo.com/photo/paris-gepetto-bicycle/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/paris-gepetto-bicycle.jpg?r=2 Paris, France — A bicycle retired into typography — Gepetto & Vélos, rue Daubenton, rust setting the type An old yellow bicycle painted with a bike shop's hand-lettered advertisement, chained to a green railing in Paris https://vivriccardo.com/photo/loyola-basque-reservoir/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/loyola-basque-reservoir.jpg Loyola, Spain — The valley above Loyola holds its water still, the hills leaning in green on green A calm reservoir surrounded by densely forested green hills under a blue sky in the Basque Country https://vivriccardo.com/photo/bilbao-maman-spider/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/bilbao-maman-spider.jpg Bilbao, Spain — Louise Bourgeois' Maman from directly beneath — thirty feet of bronze guarding a clutch of marble eggs Looking straight up at the underside of the giant Maman spider sculpture, its legs radiating against an overcast sky, Bilbao https://vivriccardo.com/photo/florence-san-marco-crucifixion/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/florence-san-marco-crucifixion.jpg Florence, Italy — Fra Angelico's Crucifixion filling the chapter-house wall, grief arranged like choreography Fra Angelico's Crucifixion with Saints fresco under a vaulted ceiling, San Marco, Florence https://vivriccardo.com/photo/florence-san-marco-annunciation/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/florence-san-marco-annunciation.jpg Florence, Italy — The Annunciation at the top of the dormitory stairs — angel and Virgin folded in the same bow Fra Angelico's Annunciation fresco with the angel Gabriel and Mary under painted arches, San Marco, Florence https://vivriccardo.com/photo/florence-san-marco-paradise/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/florence-san-marco-paradise.jpg Florence, Italy — The saved dancing in a ring through Paradise — Fra Angelico counting his blessings in gold leaf Detail of Fra Angelico's Last Judgment showing angels and the blessed dancing in a garden, San Marco, Florence https://vivriccardo.com/photo/florence-san-marco-inferno/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/florence-san-marco-inferno.jpg Florence, Italy — The other half of the Judgment — Fra Angelico's hell, tiered like a house with the worst neighbours Detail of Fra Angelico's Last Judgment showing the tiered punishments of hell, San Marco, Florence https://vivriccardo.com/photo/salamanca-cathedral-dome/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/salamanca-cathedral-dome.jpg Salamanca, Spain — Under the crossing of the New Cathedral, the dome opening overhead like a stone iris Looking straight up at the ornate crossing dome and ribbed vaults of Salamanca's New Cathedral https://vivriccardo.com/photo/london-embankment-sphinx/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/london-embankment-sphinx.jpg London, England — A Victorian sphinx keeping its counsel on the Embankment while the Eye turns behind Bronze sphinx statue on Victoria Embankment in profile with the London Eye behind, London https://vivriccardo.com/photo/normandy-chalk-cliffs/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/normandy-chalk-cliffs.jpg Normandy, France — The alabaster coast walking off toward Dieppe, flint and chalk underfoot White chalk cliffs above a pebble and sand beach at low tide on the Normandy coast https://vivriccardo.com/photo/normandy-gull-surf/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/normandy-gull-surf.jpg Normandy, France — A young gull working the surf line where the Channel turns to foam A juvenile gull flying low over breaking surf on the Normandy coast https://vivriccardo.com/photo/oxford-bay-windows/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/oxford-bay-windows.jpg Oxford, England — Bay windows keeping rank on an Oxford facade, every pane minding its own sky Symmetrical stone bay windows with leaded panes on an Oxford college facade https://vivriccardo.com/photo/oxford-christ-church-walkers/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/oxford-christ-church-walkers.jpg Oxford, England — Six passers-by and one rainbow tote outside the college wall Six pedestrians walking in profile past a weathered stone college wall in Oxford, one carrying a rainbow tote bag https://vivriccardo.com/photo/venice-gondola-canal/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/venice-gondola-canal.jpg Venice, Italy — A gondolier walking his boat off the wall at Salizzada San Todaro A gondolier pushing off a canal wall with his foot while steering passengers down a narrow Venetian canal https://vivriccardo.com/photo/venice-church-candles/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/venice-church-candles.jpg Venice, Italy — A boy adds his candle to the rack, the prayer bigger than the hands carrying it A young boy lighting a taper candle at a votive candle rack inside a dark Venetian church https://vivriccardo.com/photo/venice-shop-carving/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/venice-shop-carving.jpg Venice, Italy — An old man surfacing out of driftwood in a shop window off the tourist current A carved wooden sculpture of an old bearded face emerging from driftwood in a Venetian shop window https://vivriccardo.com/photo/venice-giudecca-winter/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/venice-giudecca-winter.jpg Venice, Italy — Winter regulars on the Giudecca, San Giorgio keeping watch across the water People in winter coats walking along the Giudecca waterfront promenade with San Giorgio Maggiore behind, Venice https://vivriccardo.com/photo/venice-water-taxis/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/venice-water-taxis.jpg Venice, Italy — Water taxis crossing wakes on the green — Venice's rush hour, seen from a bridge Three wooden water taxis crossing paths on green canal water seen from above, Venice https://vivriccardo.com/photo/venice-grand-canal-gondola/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/venice-grand-canal-gondola.jpg Venice, Italy — The Grand Canal running its errands around one unhurried gondola A gondola with passengers crossing the Grand Canal among water taxis and work boats, Venice https://vivriccardo.com/photo/venice-ferrovia-riverfront/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/venice-ferrovia-riverfront.jpg Venice, Italy — Ferrovia in thin winter sun — lamps, domes, and the Scalzi bridge holding the crowd The Grand Canal waterfront by Venice's railway station with ornate lampposts, the Scalzi bridge and a green church dome https://vivriccardo.com/photo/venice-palazzo-facade/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/venice-palazzo-facade.jpg Venice, Italy — A palazzo wearing its centuries down to the waterline A weathered Venetian palazzo facade with arched windows and peeling plaster rising from canal water https://vivriccardo.com/photo/venice-accademia-view/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/venice-accademia-view.jpg Venice, Italy — From the Accademia bridge, the Salute holding the December haze at arm's length View down the Grand Canal from the Accademia bridge toward the domes of Santa Maria della Salute in winter haze, Venice https://vivriccardo.com/photo/london-great-court-lattice/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/london-great-court-lattice.jpg London, England — The Great Court's lattice printing itself across the Reading Room wall The British Museum Great Court's glass lattice roof casting diagonal shadows on the curved Reading Room wall https://vivriccardo.com/photo/london-great-court-shadows/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/london-great-court-shadows.jpg London, England — Museum visitors crossing the shadow net — everyone caught, nobody held Visitors seen from above crossing the British Museum Great Court floor through a net of lattice shadows https://vivriccardo.com/photo/london-tower-bridge/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/london-tower-bridge.jpg London, England — Tower Bridge holding its pose while the kayaks paddle through the frame Tower Bridge over the Thames with kayakers paddling in the foreground under a cloudy blue sky, London https://vivriccardo.com/photo/london-gunpowder-bench/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/london-gunpowder-bench.jpg London, England — A quiet phone break in front of Britain's most daring conspiracy A young man seen from behind sitting on a bench checking his phone in front of a Gunpowder Plot banner, London https://vivriccardo.com/photo/london-line-art-walkers/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/london-line-art-walkers.jpg London, England — Two travellers keeping pace with the line-art commuters on the wall A man and a woman pulling suitcases past a wall frieze of black line-art walking figures, London https://vivriccardo.com/photo/kerala-sunrise-ridge/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/kerala-sunrise-ridge.jpg Kerala, India — Seven in the morning over the Kerala hills, the sun counting its rays out loud Sunrise breaking over a forested ridge in Kerala with dramatic rays fanning through clouds https://vivriccardo.com/photo/rome-appia-arch-plane/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/rome-appia-arch-plane.jpg Rome, Italy — Twenty centuries between wingspans on the approach over the Appia Antica A Ryanair jet on approach passing behind a ruined Roman brick arch against blue sky, Rome https://vivriccardo.com/photo/amsterdam-bicycle-sea/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/amsterdam-bicycle-sea.jpg Amsterdam, Netherlands — Amsterdam's parking question, answered ten thousand times over A vast bicycle parking lot with thousands of bikes in rows outside Amsterdam's station https://vivriccardo.com/photo/anagni-vespa/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/anagni-vespa.jpg Anagni, Italy — A Vespa taking the popes' town at walking pace A rider in a blue jacket and striped helmet crossing a cobbled square on a pale blue Vespa, Anagni https://vivriccardo.com/photo/anagni-couple/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/anagni-couple.jpg Anagni, Italy — Decades of practice at walking in step, Anagni keeping pace An elderly couple holding hands walking away down a cobbled street in Anagni, Italy https://vivriccardo.com/photo/atri-portal-sun/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/atri-portal-sun.jpg Atri, Italy — The sun taking its seat on a portal in Atri A stone portal silhouetted from below with a sunstar breaking over its carved pediment, Atri https://vivriccardo.com/photo/ireland-islander-plane/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/ireland-islander-plane.jpg Ireland — Nine seats to the islands, waiting out the squall A small twin-propeller Islander aircraft on wet tarmac under dramatic clouds, Ireland https://vivriccardo.com/photo/london-eye/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/london-eye.jpg London, England — The Eye counting clouds over the South Bank The full circle of the London Eye against blue sky and clouds with County Hall beside it https://vivriccardo.com/photo/london-southbank-performer/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/london-southbank-performer.jpg London, England — A performer holding her note and her pose while the South Bank walks past A street performer in a gold dress and red sunglasses reclining mid-act on the South Bank pavement, London https://vivriccardo.com/photo/london-southwark-bridge/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/london-southwark-bridge.jpg London, England — Southwark Bridge in green and gold, Tower Bridge minding the horizon Southwark Bridge crossing the Thames with Tower Bridge and the city skyline behind, London https://vivriccardo.com/photo/london-st-pauls/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/london-st-pauls.jpg London, England — St Paul's counting toward six on a blue August evening The west front of St Paul's Cathedral with its two towers and clock against deep blue sky, London https://vivriccardo.com/photo/ostia-theatre-masks/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/ostia-theatre-masks.jpg Ostia Antica, Italy — Returning the favour — photographing the masks that watched Ostia's theatre A man photographing giant carved marble theatre masks on pillars among umbrella pines at Ostia Antica https://vivriccardo.com/photo/rome-colosseum/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/rome-colosseum.jpg Rome, Italy — The Colosseum's outer ring, still holding its arches to the sky Looking up at the curved upper arches and corbels of the Colosseum against deep blue sky, Rome https://vivriccardo.com/photo/rome-monti-street/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/rome-monti-street.jpg Rome, Italy — Monti running downhill, Santa Maria Maggiore holding the far end A Monti street in Rome with trattoria sign, ivy wall, cafe terraces and the dome of Santa Maria Maggiore beyond https://vivriccardo.com/photo/karnataka-ivy-wall/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/karnataka-ivy-wall.jpg Karnataka, India — A wall given over entirely to green A dense wall of overlapping green ivy leaves filling the whole frame, Karnataka https://vivriccardo.com/photo/karnataka-sunset/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/karnataka-sunset.jpg Karnataka, India — The sun going down through bare branches over the Karnataka haze An orange sun setting through silhouetted bare tree branches in Karnataka, India https://vivriccardo.com/photo/vatican-synod-lectionary/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/vatican-synod-lectionary.jpg Vatican City — The book open before St Peter's speaks — the morning the Synod began An open lectionary on a lectern facing the gilded apse and twin clocks inside St Peter's Basilica https://vivriccardo.com/photo/sri-lanka-doves-wire/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/sri-lanka-doves-wire.jpg Sri Lanka — Two spotted doves conferring on a wire before the day gets hot Two spotted doves perched close together on a power line among silhouetted palm trees, Sri Lanka https://vivriccardo.com/photo/sri-lanka-temple-relief/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/sri-lanka-temple-relief.jpg Kelaniya, Sri Lanka — A temple guardian keeping her smile through the centuries of sun A carved stone relief of a serene female figure in a niche on a Sri Lankan temple wall, warm afternoon light https://vivriccardo.com/photo/sri-lanka-fort-light/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/sri-lanka-fort-light.jpg Sri Lanka — Late sun finding the one arch it wanted inside the old fort Golden evening light striking an arched doorway inside a dark stone fort casemate with a grass courtyard beyond, Sri Lanka https://vivriccardo.com/photo/dambulla-reclining-buddha/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/dambulla-reclining-buddha.jpg Dambulla, Sri Lanka — The reclining Buddha of the Dambulla caves, resting under a painted sky A golden reclining Buddha statue beneath a painted checkered cave ceiling at Dambulla, Sri Lanka https://vivriccardo.com/photo/sigiriya-from-pidurangala/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/sigiriya-from-pidurangala.jpg Sigiriya, Sri Lanka — Lion Rock holding court over the plain, seen from Pidurangala at seven in the morning Sigiriya rock fortress rising from forested plains seen from Pidurangala rock with a boulder in the foreground, Sri Lanka https://vivriccardo.com/photo/vatican-dome-gardens/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/vatican-dome-gardens.jpg Vatican City — The dome doing its quiet morning rounds above the Vatican Gardens The dome of St Peter's Basilica seen through a gap in dark garden foliage in the Vatican Gardens https://vivriccardo.com/photo/palermo-lion-knocker/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/palermo-lion-knocker.jpg Palermo, Italy — A lion demoted to door duty, still taking the post seriously Weathered wooden door panels with an iron lion-head knocker and ring, Palermo https://vivriccardo.com/photo/palermo-balconies/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/palermo-balconies.jpg Palermo, Italy — Evening gilds every balcony equally, air conditioners included Sunlit apartment facade with rows of balconies, shutters and air conditioners, Palermo https://vivriccardo.com/photo/palermo-sea-rocks/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/palermo-sea-rocks.jpg Palermo, Italy — The Tyrrhenian worrying the same rocks it has worried for millennia White surf churning over dark flat rocks seen from above on the Palermo coast https://vivriccardo.com/photo/amsterdam-bikes-sunset/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/amsterdam-bikes-sunset.jpg Amsterdam, Netherlands — The same ten thousand bicycles, this time with the low sun behind them Thousands of parked bicycles filling a station square at sunset with office buildings behind, Amsterdam https://vivriccardo.com/photo/frankfurt-romerberg/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/frankfurt-romerberg.jpg Frankfurt, Germany — The Römerberg's rebuilt gables holding the last red light, the winter crowds not yet gone home Half-timbered gabled houses and a church spire around the Römerberg square at dusk with crowds, Frankfurt https://vivriccardo.com/photo/germany-railway-junction/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/germany-railway-junction.jpg Germany — A set of points on the main line, the rails picking their way toward the hills Railway tracks converging at a set of points with overhead wires and a wooded hillside behind, Germany https://vivriccardo.com/photo/dachau-memorial/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/dachau-memorial.jpg Dachau, Germany — Nandor Glid's International Monument (1968) at the Dachau memorial — cast figures caught in the wire Silhouette from below of Nandor Glid's bronze memorial of emaciated figures entangled in barbed wire against a blue sky, Dachau https://vivriccardo.com/photo/normandy-dusk-branches/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/normandy-dusk-branches.jpg Normandy, France — A dead branch keeping its silhouette while the sky above the alabaster coast won't stop burning Silhouette of bare, leafless tree branches against a golden and orange sunset sky with dramatic clouds, Normandy https://vivriccardo.com/photo/normandy-dusk-daisies/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/normandy-dusk-daisies.jpg Normandy, France — Ox-eye daisies keeping their heads up long after the sun had officially given in White daisies backlit against a blue and orange dusk sky, with tall grass and water in the blurred background, Normandy https://vivriccardo.com/photo/normandy-dusk-tree-channel/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/normandy-dusk-tree-channel.jpg Normandy, France — A lone tree minding the Channel as the blue hour settles in for the night Silhouette of a large tree against a deep blue dusk sky overlooking the sea horizon, Normandy https://vivriccardo.com/photo/dieppe-cliffs-town/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/dieppe-cliffs-town.jpg Dieppe, France — Dieppe's chalk face and its rooftops, with the turbines standing watch along the ridge White chalk cliffs and a coastal town seen across a wide bay, with wind turbines on the hill behind, Dieppe https://vivriccardo.com/photo/france-wheat-field/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/france-wheat-field.jpg France — A spider staking its claim on the tallest ear in the field before anyone else could Close-up of ripening wheat ears with a spider web strung between the stalks, hedgerow blurred in the background https://vivriccardo.com/photo/paris-catacombs-plaque/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/paris-catacombs-plaque.jpg Paris, France — Skulls keeping their old audience under a stone epitaph about the schoolroom of the dead Rows of skulls above a carved stone plaque bearing a nineteenth-century French inscription, Paris Catacombs https://vivriccardo.com/photo/almonaster-symbol-sculpture/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/almonaster-symbol-sculpture.jpg Almonaster, Spain — A white sculpture of symbols and mathematics watches the town of Almonaster from its high plaza, the castle tower still keeping guard above White modernist sculptural installation with carved symbols and mathematical notation, overlooking a hilltop town with castle, clear blue sky https://vivriccardo.com/photo/corteconcepcion-frost-hedge/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/corteconcepcion-frost-hedge.jpg Corteconcepción, Spain — A frost-laden hedge holds the morning light at its edge, the rest of the world a dark silhouette below Frost-covered sparse vegetation backlit against bright blue sky, creating white crystalline silhouette against clear background https://vivriccardo.com/photo/corteconcepcion-sunrise-foliage/ 2026-08-08 yearly 0.6 https://vivriccardo.com/images/full/corteconcepcion-sunrise-foliage.jpg Corteconcepción, Spain — Flowers and leaves catch fire from behind as the sun breaks open the sky Silhouetted flowering branches and foliage backlit by golden sunrise, creating warm amber glow through plant structures