Right around 6 pm is the perfect hour for shooting photos in Rome at the moment.  It’s that “golden hour” where everything looks great.  I noted this sign for a bar in Pigneto from far away due to the way the light was shining through the translucent orange...

Even before I started photographing street art in Rome, I’d seen images around the city of colorful Japanese-style carps. Having a fascination with Eastern culture, I fell in love with them right away and then eventually discovered that it was # (Cancelletto) was responsible for the...

Today the city was a bit of a ghost town because it was the feast of the patrons saints of the city, San Pietro and San Paolo. Bars, groceries stores, shops, everything was all closed while people took a holiday. Yesterday there were fireworks at Castel Sant’Angelo and today there was...

This light laying on the side of the road, just waiting to be strung up, can only mean one thing – the neighborhood church fair will be up and running soon. This is my first summer in Pigneto, but every summer in Montesacro the local church had a little fair that would last for days,...

I took this photo a few weeks ago and this is what a Roman spring is supposed to be. Light and full of color, a time to enjoy being outside. Unfortunately the past two weeks have been dreary and rainy and shows no sign of changing. This is slightly depressing for two reasons. One,...