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At an altar of votive candles in the Duomo of Siena.

Will and Olivia at the Colosseum in Rome.

For friends and family (or stalkers, if I have any), here are the family shots of my recent trip Italy in a public Facebook album. I'm too lazy to use the nastier gallery software in my blog engine today. These are all goofy family holiday snaps, so if you're interested in Photography with a capital ''P'' then go here instead.  Roman ...

Here is a gallery of some of the photos I took in Rome, Fiumicino and around Tuscany (and the slightly slicker Facebook gallery of same photos). Note that the thumbnails in the gallery are cropped for some reason I cannot change right now. There are 27 photos in the gallery, but here are a couple for those who just want the digest ...

My niece, Zoe pushes her toy stroller through the Piazza del Campo in central Siena.

A panoramic  view of Siena, looking toward the Piazza, from the turrets on the roof of the Museo del Opera del Duomo, next to the Duomo proper.

The immense, hexagonal dome of the Duomo with its pattern of stars.

The black and white stone gives Siena's Duomo a striking look, inside and out.

What else need be said?

St. Peter's Square very effectively stamps the majesty and grandeur of the Roman Catholic Church upon your consciousness even if, like Imagethief, you are non-observant Jew. Arranged in the square are tens of thousands of empty chairs awaiting the masses that attend appearances by the Pope.