An iconic view of the cathedral of the Tuscan hill-town of Siena. I did this well after dark, sitting adjacent to the barn-like church of San Domenico.
The glory of Siena is its uniform red-brick, all but unchanged from the 13th and fourteenth centuries. The visual immersion of such an urban environment, in which walls, roads, paths, and houses are all the same organic hue, is completely alien to the North American city experience, with its grey geometries of concrete and asphalt.
Not that any of that is visible in a night picture, of course. But the ordered chaos that carries Siena over its three hills is apparent. Almost every floor is at the level of someone else's roof.
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