Some images call for black and white. This fountain in Scopello Sicily used to be used to wash clothes at the time I photographed it was used as a place to get water. and as a tourist attraction. I used Tri-X and a Canon FT with a 50mm F 1.4 FL lens. 

 Organic, Italian gigli pasta or pasta shaped like lilies with classic beef ragout or carne a stufato or what Italoamericans like to call Sunday gravy. No matter what it's called this is a classic Sunday dish that it's followed by the secondo, or better, the meat and potatoes. As for the meat, I use beef chuck, pork sausage, bracioli and fresh pancetta. Super comfort food that must be eaten with company.

 This gorgeous clematis was shot at the Queens Botanical Garden, Queens, NYC 

 Beef pizzaiola accompanied with mashed purple potatoes. Colorful and very tasty.

 Paris, summer of 1969. Notre Dame cathedral.

 Pasta e ceci os pasta with chickpeas is a very popular dish throughout Italy and there are innumerable ways to prepare it. First of all I used Garofalo" lumachine or little snails shaped pasta aquality pasta from a very good source, then I prepared a vegetarian sauce usung leeks, and garlic along with a little frest Cayenne pepper. One half of the pease were preed and then added to ones coking in the pan. Finally I added the pasta and cooked everything together. The result was a very tasty and protein rich dish of real comfort food.

 Yes inded, the color of the sea is real, no Photoshop. The water of the Meditrranean in the gulf of Castellammare. Amazing.