"Colosseum"

• Photographer: Casey Muller
• Subject: The Colloseum
• Legally taken: Yes
• Location: Roma, IT
• Date: July 16th, 2005
• Camera settings: 1/160 sec f/8.0 @ ISO 100 with 18.00 mm from lens (18.00 - 55.00 mm) focused on Infinity at 04:08:23

Description: How best to think about the Colosseum? As a crucial link in the chain turning war into sports? The romance and tragedy of the struggles, the engineering accomplishments, it's an incredible edifice. And what would the early Romans think of the giant scaffolding cross?

           "Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so
           often, that under the right circumstances he could be the
           baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial
           arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten
           years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers
           and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease,
           had one year to live, devoted it to wiping out street
           crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being
           bad."                      --Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

Post-production: The image was fancifully color corrected.