The Passage of Time...

This image is a confluence of ancient history and modern day. As I stood in front of the Coliseum, I couldn't help but think of all the famous events and people that filled this mighty arena. It was possible that I was standing in a spot where Julius Caesar may have stood. He was killed less than a mile away. Nero once owned the land that I stood on. He burned this spot to make room for a larger palace and he blamed all Christians, including St. Peter for the fire. He eventually had St. Peter crucified. Once the truth was discovered, Nero had himself killed...

This site was ripe with the energy of time and history. How does one capture these thoughts in a photograph? All photographs are time capsules. They are a capture of a moment in time. For this image, with these thoughts, it seemed appropriate to capture more than a snapshot. I put my neutral density filter on and darkened the last light of dusk, to allow for a 30 sec capture. The buses and cars streaked through the image leaving trails of color and represnting time. These 30 seconds are a mere pittance compared to the nearly two millenia that the Coliseum has stood, but those thirty seconds were my chance to connect with history...