tevere

The Tiber river in autumn.
When many thoughts crowd my head, chores pile up, and the days seem too short for the million things I need to take care of, I walk by the river and put everything back into perspective.
See how small my shadow is on the bridge?

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piazza buenos aires

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il tevere

{low waterline}

Today is the first of the month, and this means a new Theme Day in the City Daily Photoblog community. The theme this month is REFLECTIONS. 

This is Ponte Sant'Angelo, reflected in the Tiber river, which changes color according to rainfall. Today it's brown and murky, but still able to reflect Bernini's angels.

Check the reflections throughout the world by clicking here. 

specchio

he's flying around the green planet

Curious what a curved surface covered in monitors, inside a mirror box looks like...

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altar of peace

Richard Meier museum, housing the Augustan Ara Pacis

The Ara Pacis is an altar to Peace envisioned as a Roman Goddess. You can see a portion of it to the right of the picture. It was commissioned by the Roman Senate on 4 July 13 BC to honor the triumphal return of the Roman emperor Augustus, from territories now known as France and Spain. It was then consecrated 4 years later to celebrate the peace established in the Empire after Augustus's victories. The altar sought to portray the peace and fertile prosperity enjoyed in Rome as a consequence of the Pax Augusta, The Augustan Peace.

The 2006 Ara Pacis Museum, designed by the noted American architect Richard Meier, was at one point in danger of being demolished or relocated to a suburban site.

Rome’s newly elected Mayor, Alemmano had announced at a news conference that “Meier's building is a construction to be scrapped.”

What is your opinion on this Roman controversy?

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Weekend Reflections

ponte cavour

magic hour on the bridge

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Buona Pasqua!

cine città

Cinecittàdue mall

Cinecittà film studios

Centro Sperimentale di Cinematogrfia

Rome's very first shopping mall was built in 1983 in the block adjacent to the  world famous Cinecittà Studios, home to majestic Ben Hur and Fellini film sets, and many other famous Italian and international productions.

The shopping complex is relatively small compared to its newer counterparts, and it has maintained an interesting "piazza-like" feel. Across the street from the mirrored galleria shopping center on the via Tuscolana, is the fascist-style building that hosts Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Rome's first most and celebrated film school, inaugurated in 1938. 

Here, in an relatively populated, non-descript modern area of the city,  widely different architectural styles and the history of cinema live together within a 1-mile radius.

manichini in vetrina

Window shopping

How forlorn and dreamy-eyed these two mannequins look. Perhaps they're wishing they could be outside, each doing their own thing in the busy street, instead of standing together in the same sad window.

anatre

Female mallards gossipping

The surface of the pond looks oleaginous, yet very reflective. I played with desaturation here, but the monochrome hues of the birds helped to obtain this aged look.

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