Monument
This is a shot of the front of the Terry Redlin Center in Watertown, South Dakota. And I think it is a good example of the power of the photographer to direct the viewer’s attention to details and views that he or she wouldn’t or couldn’t get independently. Most people see the Redlin center like [...]
Amazing Lines
Sorry if you don’t like cathedral photos. I’m on a run of Siena Cathedral photos these days and I have one more in the next day or so. But it will be, as Rocky used to say to Bullwinkle, “something completely different.”
Duomo Siena
Here’s another photo of the Siena Cathedral and one that I adjusted with Apple’s raw image processing software called Aperture. I think it’s an amazing tool but today I decided it is especially useful to people who shoot architectural interiors in poorly lit places – such as the Duomo Siena. I won’t bore you with [...]
Under An Amazing Dome
I have a weakness for domes, including this amazing structure. This shot was taken a few years ago and discarded (along with everything else I took in the cathedral.) The problem was that everything seemed so dark. But having found a way to resurrect photos like this, I offer this shot.
The Pantheon Redux
Yes, this is a repeat – and I’m not even on vacation. Why the repeat? Because I’ve been learning some new things about photo editing. In fact, I’ve made a video:
A Study In Green
I was wandering through the French Quarter and I bumped in to the Louisiana Supreme Court Building. I took several photos but this is one I liked the most. This is an iPhone photo and I’ll admit that this photo is heavily doctored. I started in an app called Filter Mania and finished in Instagram. [...]
Spiral Stairs
Is this a chambered nautilus shell? No, it’s a carved stone spiral staircase in the “government building” in the amazing German town named Rothenburg o.d.T.
Prayer
I guess this shot is more about architecture than people, though I hope I can be forgiven for this: The First United Methodist Church in Watertown, SD, is a beautiful structure. I know that Gothic cathedrals, like the Notre Dame de Paris, were intended to lift the celebrants’ eyes to heaven, while at the same [...]
Ancient Doors
I’ll admit that I know I was in Japan when I took this photo but I don’t know where. It was a royal palace somewhere. If only I knew about GPS geotagging in 2004. . . .
American Gothic
I’m on an HDR in the country kick. I have also gotten caught up in Nik Efex and OnOne filters. So you’ll have to forgive me for slightly surreal images lately. This image is of a farm house a few miles north of Watertown. It is a fascinating remnant and I’d love to know more [...]
Keep Out!
OK, so the actual translation is “Private,” which is more polite than “Keep Out!” And if the message weren’t already friendly enough, how about surrounding it with a berry and twig filled metal thing? This was on the door of the rectory adjacent to the Bruges Cathedral in Bruges, Belgium.
In Bruges
Bruges (aka Brugge) is a beautiful small town in Belgium and Deb and I visited it a few years ago. In my quest to find a photo to post today, this one called me. I had abandoned it because it was overexposed in the brightest spots and way too dark in the darkest spot. But [...]
More Old House Geometry
Almost everything in this photo is geometric and patterned. Even the chipping paint seems patterned. Thanks, by the way for the submissions to the haiku contest. Today is the 5th day after the contest started and thus it will end. I am submitting the many excellent poems to a panel of experts and I will [...]
Geometry
Even the collapsing window frame of an abandoned farm house shows a precise geometric pattern in the strong, morning light. By the way . . . I sometimes wonder if people read my posts. More probably, you aren’t into words and you come to my blog to see what I’ve posted. From my blog stats [...]
Juxtaposition
How about something from the 20th century, the 18th century and the 1st century in the same photo? If you travel to places like Segovia, Spain, that’s not hard to come by. The Roman aqueduct that dominates that photo is the oldest structure seen here, though it is in amazingly good shape – especially since [...]
Return To La Sagrada Familia
The other day I was changing the desktop on my Mac and I came across this photo, which was featured in a post from almost exactly two years ago. I won’t go into the details on this famous Barcelona landmark since the earlier post does that already. The one thing that is striking about the [...]
Arches Gone Wild!
Today’s post features a detail photo of some of the stone work in the Cathedral in Seville, Spain. Why “Wild” in the title? As you will see in Monday’s post, the Roman arch was round and utilitarian. A thousand years later someone in western Europe decided to enhance the look a little. And the so-called [...]
The Old Farm – Another View
Ansel Adams is to Yosemite as Shephard is to The Old Farm. I’m no Ansel Adams, of course, but like Adams, I keep returning to the same subject over and over again trying to get the perfect photo. And I’m still looking for it. . . Here are some previous attempts: The Old Farm At [...]
One of Thousands
Deb in I had a little extra time in a small town in Slovenia called Lesce Bled before our train was scheduled to leave for Vienna. We had coffee at a small cafe and then went exploring. This beautiful church was our best discovery. There were many things that struck me about this place. The [...]
Angels In the Architecture
This is a shot I took at the Getty Center. Are there really angels here? Perhaps if you look closely, though for today’s title I was thinking of the Paul Simon lyric that contains that phrase: He looks around, around He sees angels in the architecture Spinning in infinity He says Amen! and Hallelujah! I [...]
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