The village of Manarola, with its colorful homes built into the side of a cliff, is probably one of the most photographed villages. With today's modern digital cameras there is a plethora of heavily color saturated images depicting the village lit up at twilight from the trail above. My closely cropped view is a less common view and the colors more true to life. To this day people still find this imageappealing.

The hiking trail between the five villages along the Cinque Terre offers beautiful views of the Ligurian Sea and coastline - Villages perched on hillsides and built into the cliffs, rugged cliffs and steep vineyards that seem to defy gravity.

As we sat relaxing along the harbor one evening, I watched this fisherman working with his nets and chatting with friends along the shore. The compositional elements in this image seem to harmonize in this image... the angular geometric patterns across the harbor mix with the spherical patterns that are repeated in the fisherman's hat as well.

I was struck by the juxtaposition of this blue fishing boat against the cliffs as it headed out to sea one morning. The striation of the rock layers along these cliffs fascinated me as well, it indicates the strong geologic forces that created this coastline.

The simplicity of this red boat in the late afternoon sun is accented by the warm muted colors of the building across the harbor in this photograph.

Our home base on the Cinque Terre was the village of Vernazza. Our hotel was at the very top of the cliffs under the shadow of the castle. The terrace behind our hotel looked out over the sea offering this view of the rugged Ligurian Sea and coastline - Villages perched on hillsides and built into the cliffs, rugged cliffs and steep vineyards that seem to defy gravity.

The hiking trail between the five villages along the Cinque Terre offers beautiful views of the Ligurian Sea and coastline. This view looks out over the village of Corniglia with Manarola in the distance.