Rocco Galatioto, nice photos and good food

One more from the St. Joseph Day bread preparation. The D700 and the 24-85 F2.8-4 Nikkor. The ISO was set at 2500 with flash fill.

The preparation of the cuccuddati, the traditional Sicilian St. Joseph bread. These are highly intricately decorated breads in various shapes that after being baked are blessed and then given out. In Sicily, St. Joseph Day was a very important holy day. Here in Queens, NYC, the traditions are still being observed. The D700 with the 24-85 F2.8-4 Nikkor.

No photo shop tricks, just a scan from a Kodachrome-X slide, Shot at the Valley of the Temples in Agrigento, Sicily in August 1972. on a night when there happened to be a full moon raising. This is the old Siciliot city of Agrakas whose temples are perhaps the best preserved of all those in Magna Grecia. Siciliots was the name that Greeks used to call Sicilians. The Greeks came to settle and became Sicilians. They were not conquerors as Sicilian cities like Syracuse and Agrakas rivaled in power and culture any city in Greece. It was in 414 BC when they tried to conquer and were beaten by the Syracusans that their decline began. It was sad that following the Punic wars, the Romans took possession of Sicily making it their first Province. The excesses of Verres and other Romans led to a pillage of the Island. Contrary to what is thought, the Romans were really barbarians compared to the Hellenized world. But that was what happened. The Romans were really very nasty and ruthless. They sti...

Paulie Gee's new artiginal pizzeria has just opened in Greenpoint. [60 Greenpoint Ave.] He makes the pizzas himself. Here ke is at work. The pizza is superb, made with authentic ingredients and baked in a wood oven made in Naples. This is not your usual pizzeria pizza. Check it out, you will be gratified. The D700 with the 28-105 F3.5-4,5 Nikkor.

This hot was taken at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Japanese Garden. This is surely one of my favorite places in the world and it's so close to home. The E300 had the 14-45 F3.5-5.6 lens.

One more from the futures in Education reception. The 24-104 F4 L. No reason to use any other lens on a job.

One lens is all you need with the 5D. The 24-105 F4L. There is practically no reason to ever change lens an a shoot.