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FotoSpecchio
A showcase for visual and literary art
Featuring photo slideshows and photography articles by Dan Murano and poetry by Maryland's 10th Poet Laureate Grace Cavalieri, who also presents poets from around the world.
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"Hands Off" protest, April 5, 2025.
Making their voices heard
Photos from the April 5, 2025 "Hands Off" Anti-Trump and Elon Musk protest on the National Mall and Washington Monument grounds in Washington, D.C. The protest drew tens of thousands of people.
Site Changes for April, 2025
Apologies for any site weirdness. I was experimenting with different types of photography content displays, but with so many configuration options, things quickly got out of hand. I will continue with occasional tweaks, but will basically leave those few affected articles as they are and move forward using the structure I had originally designed. I don't like cluttered pages, so new photo content will no longer show a page filled with thumbnails. —Dan
Brian Gilmore
Brian Gilmore is a native of Washington DC, a poet, public interest lawyer, and Senior Lecturer at the University of Maryland in the Law and Society Program. He is the author of four collections of poetry including 'come see about me marvin,' (Wayne State University Press) a 2020 Michigan Notable Book Award Recipient.
Renaissance Festival - Maryland, 2006
Occhio del tempo - Uno
These photos from my archive extend from the 1980s up to more recent times. They're a mix of black and white and color, and all but two are from black and white negatives or color slides.
Red paint job.
The Power of Red
Color plays such an integral part in our lives that we sometimes forget the psychological and emotional impact it can have on us.
Barry Humphries backstage.
Barry Humphries
A nod to Australian actor Barry Humphries, AKA megastar and suburban housewife Dame Edna Everage.
Nin Andrews
Nin Andrews is a farmgirl who loves and holds her animals close-- and whose poetry is an exemplar --craft, vulnerability, and skill--whose humor is worthy of the Mark Twain award ...—Grace Cavalieri
Promises Made
Promises Made, Promises Kept?
Paired images
I enjoy pairing images, so I thought a compare and contrast would be the perfect way to begin this new blog.
Terence Winch
Terence Winch is 'The Luck of The Irish'- and we are the lucky ones! There is no other voice in poetry that can wake everything within us that's been waiting -- clarity and realization--surprise, humor, tears, ache, love. warmth, gratitude. All the good human stuff.—Grace Cavalieri
Lady Di (Sylvia Beverly)
I always call Ladi Di "Miss Symmetry Unity Truth and Beauty." Read these poems and you will call her by that chosen name too. —Grace Cavalieri
Paris – 2000
A Different Part Of The World
Wabi-Sabi
How a wabi-sabi approach can free up your photography. A brief article with 21-image photo gallery of street photography, among other genres, with background analysis of some of the images.
Mel Edden
Mel is fresh red apples in Autumn; the first white snow; 100 azalea bushes erupting pink all at once, a yellow sunflower facing the sun. THAT's Mel Edden's person, and her poetry. —Grace Cavalieri