For the first time I went out to view the opening procession of the Feast of Santa Maria del Carmine, better know here as the Festa dei Noantri. I went with a friend who lives in Trastevere and told me how each year the Virgin Mary is dressed a different outfit made by local seamstresses. ...

I was lucky enough to wander upon a charity concert for Abruzzo happening in the church of Santa Maria in Trastevere on Saturday night, where the mosaics were beautifully illuminated and I took this photo. I think people underestimate mosaics as an art form and while Rome isn’t the...

Here is another photograph of a street corner altar, this time on the via Cavour. It was actually right above the SPQR from yesterday. This photo is another case of playing with white balance, this time by accident. I forgot I’d left the camera set on tungsten light and snapped this,...

Seriously, does anyone believe these guys are really priests? A friend of mine bought this for his friend at home as a joke and we flipped through it. I’ve never seen any priests like that walking the streets of Rome. It reminds me of the Sex and the City episode when Samantha tries...

I started out by wanting to get the green pharmacy cross along against the black sky, however I couldn’t quite get that without the church (Santa Maria Immacolata in San Lorenzo), getting the way. Then that started me thinking about the interesting juxtaposition and how a thing as...

One of the reasons I was attracted to the study of art was that art is always so much more than what’s visual. It’s politics, literature, religion. It’s about drawing out an emotion and telling a story. The piece captured above reminded me of just how powerful something...