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 [...]
Craquelure (iPhoneography – Instagram)
This is the time-worn eggshell blue kitchen paint in one of my favorite places to take photos – an old farmstead north of Watertown. The light had a great quality when I was there the other day and it helped give more dimension to this old paint barely hanging on the kitchen wall.
St. Paul Cathedral – Another View
I like the lines and curves and angles in this shot. In fact, if you study my architectural photography, I may seem a little “hung up” on lines, and curves and angles. I guess that’s my style?
St. Paul Cathedral
I wasn’t planning to photograph the St. Paul Cathedral yesterday morning. Instead, I went off to photograph the capital building in St. Paul, Minnesota. Unfortunately, there was scaffolding all over the dome. So I took photos of the nearby Cathedral. Some of you are wondering if this photo is “real” or whether I put in [...]
Labyrinth? (Getty Center, Los Angeles)
Even if the Getty Center, which sits above Los Angeles, California, didn’t have great works of art, it would be worth visiting. The setting, the architecture and the landscape make this place a “must see” destination. It is photographically fascinating and I could have spent much more time there. This photo was taken with my [...]
LA Skyline – From the Getty Center
This was originally published to my scottshephard.posterous.com account from Instagram, but I’m trying to cover a few missing days in this blog. This was taken from the Getty Center, which I have concluded is one of my favorite “buildings” in the world. Of course, it’s not a single building – it is a series of [...]
iPhonography
I didn’t make the word “iPhonography” up. It is a “school” of photography these days and you have noticed that several of my recent posts have a different look. That’s partly because I’ve been use my phone quite a bit to take photos. It is also because I have been using an app called Instagram [...]
Abstract Pattern?
I’m not sure if a pattern can be abstract, but from 30,000 feet this new housing development somewhere close to Denver seems unreal and a bit abstract too me. iPhone 4
What Is Reality?
Here’s something that just occurred to me when I saw this picture: Much of “Reality” is what we perceive superimposed with what our culture tells us we should think and feel about our perceptions. Thus, the distorted image of the Colorado state capitol building reflected in a nearby office building isn’t real. But if that’s [...]
Window Light
There were three of us photographing Kendra and Brandon’s wedding today. My self-assigned mission was to capture architectural details. In the nearly-empty sanctuary hours before the wedding ceremony, I found this stained glass window casting its colored light onto the wooden pews of St. Anne’s Catholic Church in Miller, SD. Visit our MobileMe web gallery.
Holy Name
This is a view of the altar and huge wood carving that graces the front wall of Holy Name Catholic Church in Watertown, SD.
Table & Chairs
This is a room at the Minneapolis Institute of Art that features the design work of Frank Lloyd Wright. The chairs at this dining table don’t look all that comfortable. But they are certainly stylish. I’m guessing that high-heeled shoes share the same quality.
The Family
My photography students and I were at Holy Name Catholic Church this afternoon looking for good photos. After they took off to various places in the church, I looked around the room I was in and this was the first photo I took. This is a smaller copy of a bronze version of this statue [...]
Peace
The Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis has many fascinating architectural details, including the confessionals in the vestibule I walked through. Each confessional door had “Pax” carved into the stone that surrounded the door. Pax means “peace” in Latin and I thought that it was the perfect way to welcome a parishioner to the sacrament [...]
Basilica of St. Mary
This photo started out in color but on a whim I converted it to a fairly high contrast black and white photo. The light was certainly marginal and I think the B&W turns the photo into a better study of the impressive architecture of this basilica, which is located on the west side of downtown [...]
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