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East 28th Street in the seventies
When I had my studio on 26th Street and Lexington Avenue in Manhattan, I used to walk on E. 28th street daily. The subway exit was on Park Avenue and 28th Street. It was a different times then, Today the area is totally gentrified and full of trendy bar and restaurants, not to mention high price apartments.
Golden fern
With fall here, the wonderful green ferns of summer turn into shimmering golden hues. It's therir swan song
Remembering better times
I miss these towers, What replaced them doesn't do justice and doesn't fill the void.
My garbage period
We all went through this. Early on I was interested in shooting everything and naturally, garbage made a tempting subject. Go figure.
It's beginning
The foliage is beginning to change colors and thusly the most glorious season is about to begin. Once it reaches the peek, it doesn't last long.
The Marcellus aqueduct
Believe or not, this aqueduct built in the second century AD, is still bringing water to Rome. It's one of many and. of course, the oldest one. The water is called acqua marcia. A little history lesson. Marcus Claudius Marcellus , five times elected as consul of the Roman Republic, was an important Roman military leader during the Gallic War of 225 BC and the Second Punic War. Marcellus gained the most prestigious award a Roman general could earn, the spolia opima, for killing the Gallic military leader and king Viridomarus in hand-to-hand combat in 222 BC at the Battle of Clastidium. Furthermore, he is noted for having conquered the fortified city of Syracuse in a protracted siege during which Archimedes, the famous Sicilian thinker. who was considered to be the greatest mathematician of ancient history, and one of the greatest of all time was killed by a Roman soldier. Archimedes was pointing a concave mirror to the Roman ships and thus burned a few. To his credit, Marcellus hav...
