Picture of the Week #79 "Attack of the Little Men"

Picture of the Week #79 "Attack of the Little Men" Rome, Italy 2009 Signed and Stamped

After our historic trip to the Vatican to hear Pope Benedict's Address to Artists in the Sistine Chapel, we hung around Rome for a few days to take in other Museums and sights. This installation brought a smile to all who had the opportunity to see it. I got down on the floor to get this shot as the little clay men are only a few inches high. Sadly, I don't remember who the artist was who brightened my day. But I know that his work will not be forgotten.

Picture of the Week #78 "My Feet, My Po Po Feet"

Picture of the Week #78 "My Feet, My Po Po Feet" Brooklyn, New York 2006 Signed and Stamped

While my film "Boardwalk" was being screened at the Coney Island Film Festival my wife Ann and I walked on the actual boardwalk where I shot the movie and I took some pictures. Coney Island never fails to dazzle and delight me with the brash colors, the strange people, the intense fun house feeling of my youth and it's unique quality of life. Everyone seems to be relaxed and enjoying themselves versus the hustled and harried businessmen in the City. But even happy people have to rest as this guy did when he kicked off his shoes and laid back to enjoy the bright sun. It reminded me of Pearl Bailey who always used to say, "Oh my feet, my po po feet". It wasn't until I was older that I grew to appreciate the feeling of kicking off my shoes and sitting back to smell the roses.

Picture of the Week #77 "Guard of Versailles"

Picture of the Week #77 "Guard of Versailles" Versailles, France 1972 Signed and Stamped

Versailles is one of my most favored places. I used to have visions of past lives living there. The opulence, the power, the beauty, and the escape of the "real" world around us. What it must have been like to have been invited there. To the banquets, the majesty of the lifestyle and the intrigue. To stroll through the marble and gold covered rooms the size of playing fields and to imagine the music playing, the women powdered and fluffed spinning to the plucked strings of a harp. What a life it must have been. Then I would wander for hours in the vast gardens thinking how fortunate I was to be able to be there when there were no tourists. Just a lonely Guard and myself.

Picture of the Week #76 "Reading The World"

Picture of the Week #76 "Reading The World" Paris, France 1993 Signed and Stamped

Walking out of La Coupole, one of my all time favorite places to eat, I spotted this woman reading Le Monde. Shooting from my hip I clicked off one image. The noise of the shutter caught her attention and she briefly smiled and went back to reading about the world. This image like so many others is indicative of my photo work. As I have said before on this blog,

I love to walk around and take pictures, always the observer, rarely the participant.

Picture of the Week #75 "Bibliotech.hcetoilbiB"

Picture of the Week #75 "Bibliotech.hcetoilbiB" Paris, France 2003 Signed and Stamped

We were in Paris celebrating our dear friend Alberto Lensi's 60th surprise birthday. During the day we walked from our hotel near the Arc de Triumph all the way down the Champs Elysee past the Louvre and along the Quai on the left bank to the new library, or bibliotech to see an exhibition of Henri Cartier Bresson's photography. Magnificent is all I can say. The perfect accoutremont to a perfect day. When we came out I noticed the reflection in the windows appearing like a double exposure. It was not. It's a cool double reflected image, therefore the title, Bibliotech.hcetoilbiB. And, as luck would have it the contrail of the plane lined up with the cross beam of the building like an attached thread. And like a Bresson, in the right place at the right time.