family vacation {ITALY}

Last night we returned from our family trip to Italy.  We visited Rome, Naples, Pompeii, and Venice in 8 full and wonderful days.  I have never thought I enjoyed landscape photography, but I don't really think you can go wrong when you're surrounded by so much beauty!

I have about 1,000 captures, but neither the time nor the energy to dig through all of them right now. I just couldn't wait to take a look.

Here are a handful of my favorites at first glimpse. 

(And yes;  I really jacked up the saturation and the clarity far more than I normally would; but this the closest I could get to how I will always remember it!)