Rocco Galatioto, nice photos and good food

Just go to Madison Sqare Park and enjoy the views. Fist you can se the superb Flat Iron Building and lookinh North you can take in the Empire state. I used the Fuji S2-Pro for these shots.

A view from my room in Rotondi, north east from Naples. The home of my dear friends the Maiellos who put up with my loquaciuosness. I want to thank them profusely. I also want to thank hie lovely daughters Michela and Angela.

Interesting indeed and theorized many times. Now a new book asserts that Leonardo was the creator of the world's first negative, From Italy's Corriere della Sera newspaper. "il primo negativo "fotografico" della storia che ha come matrice un'immagine mentale» «Così Leonardo creò la Sindone» La tesi della scrittrice Vittoria Haziel: «Il maestro usò un ferro arroventato e disegnò sulla tela il suo autoritratto» Interesting for us photographers. This is not all. I just finished reading, the "Secret Supper" where Leonardo wa purported to be a Cathar a.d the case is made about the symbolysm in his Last Supper. Very interesting book. No matter what anyone says, the Image of John the Baptist is a woman. Some allege that it's actually Mary Magdalene. Go figure.

A few more from that wonderful afternoon in the park with my son.

I'm finally here, I'm finally home. These are two views from the belvedere.

The buzz word today is still VIDEO. Its creating quite a stir on many photo websites and blogs. There is great passion for and against video in a still camera. Personally, I have no use for video. Many of my cameras have had video but never used it. However, the profession is changing especially in photo journalism and internet reportage. We now have so called "webisodes" and other areas of interest to the younger photographers who really have no attachment to the classic cameras as such. We, and I speak for myself and many like me who began decades ago, have an attachment to cameras as cameras and video cameras as video cameras. There is a wall that keeps the two media separate and it gives us comfort. This is the way we have been functioning all these years and we can not even accept that one day video will be accepted as the norm in a camcorder. Just today, when I saw the new Olympus digital Pen, I became all excited. This reaction to a basically limited came...

After 5 incredible days in Rotondi, north east of Naples, the guest of Maria Franca and Amedeo Maiello, a university professor, I will be flying to Sicily today. So far the G 11 has proven to be up to the task and more. Very nice travel camera.

The venerable Yashicamat 124 introduced me to the world of medium Format. Thi shot was taken at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Two pretty youg ladies at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and the E-300 and the 14-45 F 3.5-5.6.