Interior detail; Colosseum of Rome, Italy. October 2009.
A sense of scale; Colosseum of Rome. October 2009.
Umbrellas, arches; Colosseum of Rome. October 2009.
Ancient fenestration; Colosseum of Rome. October 2009.
Flecks of color amid levels of earth tones; Colosseum of Rome. October 2009.
Surveying what remains after almost two thousand years; Colosseum of Rome. October 2009
An arc of green amid the ruins of what once could seat 50,000 spectators; Colosseum of Rome. October 2009.
Once stone-covered, now bare; Colosseum of Rome. October 2009.
Arch underpinning details in one of the greatest works of Roman architecture; Colosseum of Rome. October 2009.
Echoes of level after level of what once was; Colosseum of Rome. October 2009.
Skeleal remains of seating supports; survivors of the earthquake of 1349; Colosseum of Rome. October 2009.
Interior detail where between about the fourth through tenth centuries, a period of disuse, there were workshops, a church, a cemetry and areas set aside for housing; Colosseum of Rome. October 2009.
Once subterranean, now all that remains of a structure that took eight years to build, 72 C.E. to 80 C.E.; Colosseum of Rome. October 2009.
A fan of bare arches, walls where spectators once came and went; Colosseum of Rome. October 2009.
Stairs to nowhere; Colosseum of Rome. October 2009.
Interior construction detail; after the rocky finish facades have been stripped away; Colosseum of Rome. October 2009.
Interior construction detail two; Colosseum of Rome. October 2009.
Underpinning of the elipse; Colosseum of Rome. October 2009.
Rainy Day; Colosseum of Rome, Italy