Geometric Decoration & Architecture
Agra in India was fascinating for the richness its array of geometric patterns on the buildings dating from its Islamic Mughal empire. Other countries with Islamic citizens often feature geometric […]
Category Archives: Lens-Artists Photo Challenge
Taking Advantage of Natural Light
From a Travel Photo class many years ago I got the advice that you would need to get up well before dawn every day, and take photographs of the places […]
Standing Stones From Around the World
I’ve been racking my brains for a topic that starts with S. At first the only thing I came up with was ‘Sketches of Stones’ but then I thought ‘Stonehenge’, […]
A Photographic Journey, 1973-1979
I had started my art college photography course in 1972 with an ancient bellows camera but was soon coveting the other students’ substantially more advanced cameras. On a student budget […]
A Photographic Journey, 1972
This wondrous Kodak is the camera I used for my first real travel experience – a trip to Denmark in 1965. You can read about that experience which includes my first […]
2020 Photos in Review
Let’s face it, I have been somewhat of a Grinch this Christmas. All over the internet everyone was writing ‘Merry Christmas’ and I was thinking “What’s so merry about it?” […]
Searching for Wabi-Sabi in Japan
Tina of the Lens-Artists Challenge introduced me to a completely new word/concept this week: Wabi-sabi, the Japanese art of finding beauty in imperfection. When I thought back to the times […]
Mission Hill Winery in West Kelowna, BC’s Okanogan
Now. I just finished reading the novel Crush by Jennifer Margaret Fraser, described as a wine thriller. I found it in the little free library on Granville Island near me, my […]
Meandering Around the Murals of Main Street in Vancouver
Lately I’ve been walking around Vancouver’s neighbourhoods checking out the murals. Plus any other oddball thing that catches my attention. I made my way down Broadway past the old Bow […]
Exploring Symmetry
The latest Lens-Artists Challenge is ‘Symmetry’ and so I have been looking at it with a new eye, and finding it everywhere! Vertical Symmetry Here the axis runs vertically through […]
