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A street in Trastevere. 

I have dozens of these ‘self-portrait’ shots. They create a kind of cult-of-personality in your own mind. Try it!  

More very-sketchy Lomo shots. Everyone was jetlagged like crazy, but we decided to hop on the Metro and see the Colloseum. They started bombing Iraq on that day and we encountered a huge demonstration- thousands […]

To the left was the forum. That gold-looking building is the ancient Senate building. The dotted orange line to the right of that is the torches of the demonstrators coming off the Capitoline.  

Behind us was the Colloseum 

Ahead was the Vitorriano. The protestors were mostly silent or talking quietly. Mostly there was just the sound of thousands of feet. 

Jason reloads. 

Demonstrators. Again you can see the demonstrators on the winding down the Capitoline above the woman in the orange coat. This was a powerful scene and members of our group were crying.  

OK, I know these shots are hardly great phototography (or even great “lomography”) but hopefully they’re worth viewing once.  

Fountain at the foot of the Capitoline.  

Boat bassist Andrea Niemic (see Jan. 9’s “Tedium On The River” post) has just cruelly emailed me from Venice. In her honor, here are a few Lomo shots of that crumbling ruin of a town. […]

A bridge. I stumbled drunkenly a few steps after this, fortunately breaking my fall with the Lomo.