The Colosseum…
by Rodney Campbell on Jan.20, 2018, under Life, Photography
I had prebooked our entrance tickets to the Colosseum online before we had left Australia.
Colosseum
NIKON D750 + 13.0 mm f/2.8 @ 13 mm, 1/1000 sec at f/4, ISO 100
Note: These photographs (especially the wider shots) look much better when larger. To see larger versions in an inline overlay slideshow gallery viewer click any of the images.
We had an entry timeslot first thing (8:30AM) on our first morning in Rome and we had no idea really how important it would be to book in advance. The Colosseum, together with the Palatine (the ticket is valid for both) is the most visited monument in Italy. Even on this rainy grey day in the middle of winter in Rome the queues to purchase entry were large. A queue out in the rain we were thankfully able to skip.
Colosssal
NIKON D750 + 13.0 mm f/2.8 @ 13 mm, 1/320 sec at f/4, ISO 100
Inside the building is pretty damn incredible as expected. It’s perhaps not quite as large as I was expecting (the arena floor size) but still amazing construction for something built nearly two thousand years ago.
Looking Through
NIKON D750 + 13.0 mm f/2.8 @ 13 mm, 1/200 sec at f/4, ISO 100
The Arena
NIKON D750 + 13.0 mm f/2.8 @ 13 mm, 1/250 sec at f/4, ISO 100
and of course my girls enjoying the rain 🙂 – which thankfully actually held off for most of the time we were outdoors here.
NIKON D750 + 28.0-300.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 32 mm, 1/30 sec at f/5.6, ISO 360
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