Genre: Architecture
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Michigan Barns
The barn above was just around the corner from where we stayed last month in Traverse City, Michigan, so it was an easy target for a brief photo outing before I started work for the day. This was one of those situations where you had to choose between color in the sky early and light
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Fountains Abbey
My last day photographing in Yorkshire was spent at Fountains Abbey, founded by Benedictine monks in the year 1132 and closed in 1539 by Henry VIII (along with all other monasteries in the country). It’s clearly worse for the wear after nearly 500 years, but spectacular, and well worth a lot more time than I
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Shading
Tucson, Arizona. April 2025.
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Twickenham Columns
The Twickenham neighborhood in Huntsville, Alabama, is very close to downtown Huntsville. The columns above are not in that neighborhood, per se, but are close enough that we passed them on the same walk. Huntsville isn’t a particularly large city (population 225,000) but, even so, that there can be so many spectacular homes in its
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Reflections on Bruges
Since the Chunnel train was late and the sun sets very early in Belgium in December, our first big photographic outing in Bruges was the morning after our arrival: a boat ride through the city’s canals. Even though the boat was moving rather slowly by objective standards, from a photographic standpoint, the compositions were passing
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Cathedrals and Such—Part Two
This week’s post continues last week’s topic of ecclesiastical buildings, but using examples from London. The image above, from St. Paul’s Cathedral, takes the same zenithal approach as last week’s opening image of the York Minster Chapter House dome. Domes obviously lend themselves to this maximal-symmetry composition, so images like this have a lot more
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Cathedrals and Such—Part One
I mentioned last week that I was going to do a separate post on church interiors, but it became clear to me that I had too many images for a single post and thought it best to split them up. This week includes views from inside York Minster (York) and King’s College Chapel (Cambridge); next
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York and Yule
Two of York’s big draws are York Minster and The Shambles. York Minster was the focus of last week’s post, but I’m not sure that I have enough worthwhile images of The Shambles’ narrow streets and snickelways (super-narrow alleys and passages) to warrant an entire post. But here’s a few, just to convey a taste
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Views of York Minster
My wife and I just returned from two and a half weeks in Europe, so for the next month or two I will be featuring photographs from that trip. Our trip began in York, England, where we had three full days. Well, we would have, except the weather was so hideous the first day that
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Abandoned in Colorado
I mentioned last week that I was going to show off some of the random gems that you can find just driving around the San Luis Valley. One of the first I found was the wonderful abandoned house above. At the time we were driving towards the Great Sand Dunes, which start just off the