USA 1996
San Francisco
- I lived in the Inner Sunset District at three minutes walk from the UCSF
main building with Mrs. Willa Crowell, secretary in the Department of the
external supervisor of my PhD. My friendly landlady deserved the
first picture made with my new digital camera.
- A tour of 1422 Fifth Avenue: the back entrance
seen from Judah Street (that goes from the UCSF to
the Pacific Ocean, crossing Fifth Avenue), Judah
again from the crossing with Fifth, a look into Fifth
from the crossing (1422 is the red house behind the post), and finally
1422 from the front: this was a virtual tour
around the block.
- A walk through the nearby Golden Gate Park: going
west, looking east (the white
UCSF building can be seen behind the trees), a pond
with aquatic birds, a squirrel.
- A dull shot of the town by night from the
other side of the Golden Gate, that just shows how light-sensitive the camera
is.
Philadelphia and Princeton
- On the way back to Europe I stopped four days in New York. Actually the
first day I went by train to Philadelphia where I met my old bud Russ Lewis:
see him in front of the city skyline and with me
in front of the railway station.
- I left Philly in the early afternoon and had time to see Princeton, halfway
to New York. It was winter and it became dark pretty soon:
1, 2,
3, 4,
5, 6,
7, 8,
9.
New York
- I lived in a flat of my cousin Isabella Germano in East 98th Street (from
east, from west). These are
1, 2,
3 views from the window. The dark skyscraper
behind the Orthodox church is the Mount Sinai Medical Center where she works.
- A walk through the nearby Central Park makes you forget you are in such a
big town: 1, 2,
3, 4,
5, 6,
7, 8.
- The Solomon Guggenheim Museum, Frank Lloyd Wright's last building, is
amazing. Photographing inside is forbidden, but the camera is so
light-sensitive that I could do without flash and therefore being discovered:
1, 2,
3, 4,
5. Indeed, the
worst image is the only one where I used the flash.
- Then I walked to the City (1,
2) until the New York Stock Exchange. Outside:
1, 2
(the queue are tourists awaiting to be admitted); inside:
1, 2,
3, 4,
5, 6,
7, 8,
9.
Here too it is forbidden to take photographs inside, perhaps because the
flashes would disturb the operators; but again using a flash did not give good
results, because the light reflects on the glass.
I learned that Wall Street is on a side of the NYSE; the front is on
Broad Street.
- Back to the "normal" world: some red brick
houses near the old harbour.
Tuscan Islands
- The flight from Rome to Pisa goes past the islands of
Elba (and its principal town Portoferraio),
Capraia, Gorgona,
and the Meloria shallows. You can hardly see
anything in the mist? So do I.
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