Friday April 3, 2026

NAPLES ITALY –  The Certosa di San Martino, the Carthusian monastery on the Vomero hill above Naples. This model is the Temple of Neptune at Paestum — the best-preserved Greek temple in the world.  It sits in a baroque monastery built by monks who had taken a vow of silence. A sensationally Neapolitan mash up.

Day 6,016 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.

Temple

One more for today – leaving Naples. Vesuvius from the stern of the aliscafo to Ischia. The volcano killed the man in the glass case at Pompeii nearly two thousand years ago.

Vesuvio

Looking back exactly 4 years to Joshua Tree National Park. Two kinds of ancient violence: yesterday, a volcano that buried a city. Four years ago: quartz monzonite forced up through the desert floor and left to weather for a hundred million years. Day 4,555 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.

Joshua Tree