Lit-up Lamps and Other Artificial Lighting at Night
A collection of lamps and other artificial lighting from around the world. An Art Deco light fixture in the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. Inside the Delirium Pub in […]
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Backcountry Roads on the Isle of Anglesey in Wales
May 31, 2016. A drive along a series of twisting backcountry roads on the Isle of Anglesey in Wales. Leaving the collection of several medieval structures at Penmon, we passed […]
Horseshoe Falls and a Hidden Church in Llangollan, Wales
The Lens-Artists Challenge this week is ‘Getting Away’, and I realize that, although the restrictions of staying in our own region of the province (BC) were lifted June 15, we […]
A Fantastical Ferry Ride from Sendai to Matsushima in Japan: 2003
NOTE: In March of 2011 a magnitude 9.1 earthquake struck east of Sendai, creating a tsunami that wiped out most of the city and caused severe damage to the nuclear […]
Shadows and Shade
Sometimes I like to think about different words and describe with images what I think they mean. This week Leya has noticed that shade and shadow have different meanings in English, […]
Touring Death Valley in California
“Travel prepared to survive,” the National Park Service gives as advice on travelling through Death Valley. The name of Death Valley is a clue; it starts with the word ‘Death’. […]
The Kyoto Botanical Garden in Japan
I love botanical gardens, partly because I’m always curious as to the name of the plant I’m taking a photo of. In the early days of film I took copious […]
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 […]
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’, […]
