Orvieto Passage
Recently I processed this image from Orvieto, in Umbria (Italy). In the morning the fog was thick. I took advantage of the evocative lighting, and framed an ancient, cobblestone passage…
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February 2, 2023
The Second Creepiest Hotel Room on My Visit to Italy
Well, the "first creepiest" room was definitely the one in Orvieto that had a large reproduction of a painting of Death playing chess with his dying victim hung right over…
November 24, 2022
Sailing Yacht A
Sailing Yacht A ("Sy A") is a super yacht belonging to a Russian oligarch that was seized by Italian authorities in Trieste harbor in March, 2022. Sy A remains anchored…
November 23, 2022
Florence Rainbow
A few days ago, my friend Julian and I walked up to the Michelangelo Piazza for a view above Florence. We were welcomed with a display of sun, clouds, rain---and…
November 22, 2022
Duomo in the Clearing Fog
The day dawned with a white-out fog blanketing the Umbrian hill town of Orvieto. I wandered through the maze of ancient, deserted streets and alleys with my camera on the…
November 18, 2022
St Patrick’s Well
St Patrick's Well, or Pozzo di San Patrizio, is located in Orvieto, Umbria, Italy. There are 248 steps down (and up). The view in my image is looking up at…
November 16, 2022
Dreaming of Venice
I'm beyond excited about heading back to Europe in a few days for an extensive photography trip that will include one of my favorite cities, Venice. May the photographic stars,…
October 20, 2022
From the Files
Here are two images from my files. California Live Oak (above) is from 2019, photographed in Walnut Creek, California. Arcade, Trapani (below) is from November, 2018, photographed in Trapani, a seaport…
March 11, 2021
Cefalu
Wandering through the Sicilian village of Cefalu, I made my way to the harbor jetty. Looking back at the whitewashed village, it was clear that from a monochromatic perspective, the…
December 7, 2018
Door in Trapani
On my way into Trapani, a refugee from my hotel in Palermo, I pulled the car over to stop at a MacDonald's on the outskirts of town to take advantage…
December 2, 2018
Corleone
Corleone is a town in central Sicily. Historically, many mafia bosses have come from Corleone. The anti-Mafia archive and museum is housed in Corleone (unfortunately not open when we visited).…
November 17, 2018
Patterns that are big, patterns that are small
Composition in photography is in large part about bringing an ordered visual experience to the chaotic reality of our world. This means finding, and emphasizing, patterns: patterns that are big,…
November 17, 2018
Accordion Player
Winding down the steep, narrow streets of the medieval Sicilian town of Cefalu towards the seaward ramparts, I could hear faintly some rather delicious accordion music. Getting closer, he sat…
November 15, 2018
Domes in the Palermo Cathedral
I don't get to use the word syncretic nearly as much as I'd like. Last appearing in this blog to describe the quasi-official mix of Shintoism and Buddhism in Japan,…
November 14, 2018
Palazzo Berardo Ferro, Trapani
Yesterday to get away from the madness at the hotel, I got up early, had a quick breakfast, made my way out the barricades, and drove to Trapani, an old…
November 13, 2018
A Memorable Arrival in Palermo
Leaving Malta long before sunrise---the taxi picked us up at the hotel at 3:45AM---under an overcast and misty sky I found myself looking forward to exploring Palermo, Sicily, a bit…
November 12, 2018
Dawn along the Tiber River
My friend and I woke in the darkness before the first light of dawn in our hotel near the Spanish Steps in Rome. We grabbed our cameras and tripods, donned…
February 9, 2017
Study in Contrasts
It's little more than a hour drive from the sleek architectural statements of Milan's skyscrapers to the picturesque shores of Lake Como.
January 24, 2017