Fountains in Rome are numerous, beautiful, humorous, elegant, controversial, or sometimes outright creepy. The water is always good, though! Cheers.

Rome, Via del Babuino. While Milan is certainly the fashion capital in Italy, you can find impeccable fabric, design and style in Rome as well, in the stores and on the streets. Walk, look, and enjoy. I like to dress and travel casual anywhere in the world, but when in Rome or Milan, I will wear a suit every day. Well, almost every day......

Ellen Carey, photographer, and Jason Landry, photographer and owner of the Panopticon Gallery, Boston.
The polaroid was taken outside Ellen's and my studio in Hartford to test my vintage Polaroid Land Camera.  This is a scan of the 'negative', and it is altered from long washing that caused swelling and wrinkling in some areas, an effect I like very much.

Rimini, Italy, on the beach.

Rome after nightfall. In the Piazza del Quirinale, Castor and Pollux cast their large shadows at the center of the square. The sculptures, Roman copies of Greek originals depict the Dioscuri Castor and Pollux, sons of Leda by Tyndareus and Zeus, respectively. Pollux was immortal, but Castor was not. When Castor died, Pollux asked Zeus to let him share his own immortality with his twin to keep them together, and they were transformed into the Gemini constellation. Thus, I found it appropriate to depict Castor against a starry sky.



Castor and Pollux


Castor and Pollux, the Dioscuri, the twin sons of Zeus by Leda; great, the former in horsemanship, and the latter in boxing; famed for their mutual affection, so that when the former was slain the latter begged to be allowed to die with him, whereupon it was agreed they should spend a day inHades time about; were raised eventually to become stars in the sky, the Gemini, twin signs in the zodiac, rising and setting together; this name is also given to the electric phenomenon called St. Elmo's Fire (q.v.).

Trastevere, Rome.

New Year prayers in Kyoto, Japan. Millions stream to the thousands of temples and shrines to pray for a year of health and prosperity. Right now the world is praying with them, for them. What happens in Indonesia, New Zealand, or Japan, happens to the entire globe, all the people. Economies have long become global, let's make sure people are, too.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_newsroom/20110311/wl_yblog_newsroom/japan-earthquake-and-tsunami-how-to-help

Tempietto by Bramante, Rome.

Death Valley Shrub.

Sunrise at Zabriskie Point.

Death Valley Sand Dune.