INTRODUCING FOTOITALIANA - SPECIAL PHOTOS TAKEN BY SPECIAL FRIENDS

If you’ve followed our blog then you’ve already ‘met’ our friends Jill and Larry from Seattle. They lived in Italy for a year (April 2004 to April 2005), and contacted us after reading our blog. What started out as helping strangers move to Italy ended up as a great friendship.

Larry is an outgoing, never-met-a-stranger type of guy who’s always looking for his next project. Currently he’s working at Starbucks, hosting numerous auctions, helping Jill raise their 17 month old, made-in-Italy daughter, (the ultimate souvenir!), setting up a table at the local outdoor market every weekend in Redmond to sell their photographs, and now they’re ready to launch their photography website as well!

Jill is a sweetheart. Anyone who can put up with Larry’s corny jokes with such good grace HAS to be a sweetheart. After working at Microsoft for many years, she’s now involved with Paul Newman’s Hole In the Wall Gang camps. She and Larry have a passion for Italy that they share with others in a variety of ways, including photography. Of course her full-time job is raising Daniela to be healthy, happy, and hopefully bilingual.

The new website, FOTOITALIANA is beautiful. So many of their photographs capture those moments in Italy when the sun is just right and the scene is picture perfect. I’m adding a link to their website and I hope you’ll take a look. Of course you can order online, but if you’re ever in the Redmond area on a sunny weekend, stop by their table to see their photographs in person and to say hello. It just might be the start of a wonderful new friendship.