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Rome misc, Dec 2009 – 17
Image by Ed Yourdon
Around sunset during the autumn months, it’s common to see huge swarms of starlings in the sky above the Tiber River, and sometimes in the area of Piazza Cavour. In this case, I photographed them from the Ponte Sant’Angelo, at the end of an afternoon walk around Rome.
It’s almost impossible to capture the spectacle of the birds with a "still" camera, because they swoop and swarm so quickly — forming thick black blots in the sky that dissipate and disappear within seconds. Maybe next time, I’ll try a video camera…
Note: this photo was published in a Feb 28, 2012 blog titled "Jetsom: Design Inspiration." It was also published in a Jun 11, 2012 blog titled "La fisica incontra la biologia, ovvero dal lavoro sporco al calcolo matematico."
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In December 2009, I enjoyed the longest visit to Rome since I first arrived in the spring of 1972: I spent two weeks conducting seminars, and speaking at an Enterprise 2.0 computer conference, while also finding a few quiet days for wandering around the ancient city to revisit some familiar places.
In other Flickr sets here in my archives, you’ll find the photos that I took, during this visit, at the Spanish Steps, at the Piazza del Popolo, on the Ponte Sant’Angelo, and at Piazza San Pietro in front of St. Peter’s Basilica.
But there were a few photos that didn’t fit comfortably into any of those sets — e.g., one or two from a drizzly-afternoon walk through the Villa Borghese; some photos of the mist rising on the Tiber River as I walked across one of the bridges enroute to my computer conference; a few photos of the starlings as they swarmed in massive black clouds above the river at sunset; and a few photos of the river, bridges, and St. Peter’s at dusk.
All of those miscellaneous photos are contained in this set … to which I’ll add more entries as I discover things that don’t fit elsewhere…
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