Buona serata! Another very nice trip to Italy is over as well as another evening has been spent beautifying the results. I'm going to publish more pictures from that trip but for now only the Venezia part is ready. It is always a good idea to visit this city but from photographer's point of view much more so in fall. The warm and foggy weather this time made the architecture incredibly soft and even more polyfoil. Must-sees are carnival masks, glass, and of course canals and gondolas...

Last week I implicitly became an "official" photographer of two local events: FORMATS'05, International Conference on Formal Modelling and Analysis of Timed Systems (Uppsala, Sweden) and ARTIST2 Summer School (Nässlingen, Sweden). The conference took place mostly indoors and the school - on a small island in the Stockholm archipelago, located about 50 km north east of Stockholm, which has been converted into a modern conference centre, but retained its old genuine character. The weather was perfect, the Baltic sea cold as usual (too cold to swim without having sauna first :), and the colourful fall of leaves hurried the last days of the warm Indian summer.