Some of my pictures

This is one of the photographs that I took while visiting Rome in the Spring of 2008. I took it in the District Olympic Rome, a neighborhood near the Coliseum. I think that this is a really stunning picture because it has nice line and really nice detail. It is in perfect focus and even has a sense of depth when you look at the picture. I think that this was one of my favorite pictures that I took in Rome because it completely captures that essence of the neighborhood. We spent a lot of time there and we were able to get to know quite a few of the people that lived in the quarter.
It was quite and not very lively since it was that time of the afternoon that many people in Europe take a nap. I think that this shows that because there is no one in the picture, as well as the color of the print really makes me think of what it would look like if you were sleeping there.
I think that the most interesting part of this experience was the meeting all of the people  that took residence in the district. I think that many of them loved their lives, and some even wouldn't trade it for anything else in the world, unlike many of the people today. There was one older woman that told me how her son had lost his job, due to the very beginning of the recession there, and how he came back home to live with his mother. She said that it is sad that he has no work and that they are struggling for money, but she wouldn't have it any other way. She loves having him home.
I think that the biggest difference between their happiness and ours is the fact that they seem to be happy with anything that life deals them, even if its not what they had planned.  I think that this is something that our country has lost in the midst of trying to get to the top, no matter what it cost us or anyone else. I wish that we could just go back a few centuries and remember what it was like to frankly have a loaf of bread in the house, not to mention the butter that we hold low on our chart of importance. I think that maybe I would like to do a piece on this one day because it is something that is very interesting to me. I try to be thankful for everything that I achieve or am given, even if its not what I want, and I think it would be really interesting to research that through other people and see how they react to this situation.