Chris, "Quid custodiet ipsos Custodes" is a bit of cliche among those trying to sell security equipment and software. I have to look these things up in books, so of course it's the bastardised version I couldn't find that lodges in the brain.(posted 8549 days ago)Christel, it is a slightly odd theme to persue into a building that is literally the forum for a capital city, but I was encouraged by the feel of people quietly conducting their private lives in public. For example, the man in the light overcoat in that last picture has a complete three course lunch spread out on the bench. Juvenal originally said "Who guards the guards" ("Quis custodiet...") in the context of locking up your wife to prevent adultery - the implication being that human nature can't be supressed.
Wayne, I can live with one out of four. You should just be grateful I didn't show the one where the people are blurred. One reason I've moved up in format for my travel photography is that I'm conciously trying to give my subjects more space, and in some cases to play with compositions that lack a single main centre of interest - Chinese or C17th landscapes rather than Meunchisms. Current technology makes it hard to convey here, but at least some of the clutter evaporates as the reproduction improves, and small details clarify, which makes what 'point' there is a bit less obscure.