I shot this photo with the Olympus EM10 II, with the 60 mm macro lens, 1/160”, f 7.1, ISO 250 and zero EV. A simple, B&W edit and the usual S-curve to increase contrast.
I was on the pavement of the church of S. Giorgio dei Genovesi and was struck, curious and interested by the strange shape of these stones at the church portal.
The Genoa people were the bankers who traded with the Kingdom of Sicily in the 1600s. For them the sea was everything, and so 'their' church was built by the sea, with everyone's money, that is, the richest among them. Of course inside, in the center of the church, are the tombstones of the great benefactors of the church building.
Today this is closed, I don't even know if it is still consecrated. You can see the outside, with its crude buttresses: a no-frills building, like the Genoa people, precisely.
