Posted in Art, Creativity, Photography, Travel on Nov 3rd, 2008
On a recent visit to Liverpool my wife and I couldn’t but help notice that there were a lot of new shops and offices being built. If you walk from the docks to the city centre it is hard not to get the impression that you are walking on a nice new path through a [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 21st, 2008
It was late on a hot afternoon in September in Rome. We had been bumping into Caravaggio paintings and exploring churches all day. We were exhausted and arted out. I sat in a pew inside a church (I’m afraid I do not remember which one, there were so many, but do tell [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 14th, 2008
How do you shoot Florence?
I mean, it has to be one of the most photographed cities in the world. When we went in the week before Easter the place was teeming. I dread to think what it would be like once the tourist season really started. And most of us who were [...]
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Posted in Government, Health, Psychology on Aug 29th, 2007
When it comes to human addictions and frailties, there is often little understanding of the powerless felt by many people gripped in the power ofa vice. If you have never smoked, it is easy to say to someone who has smoked all of his or her life, that they could just stop if they really [...]
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