Tag: Architecture

  • Cathedrals and Such—Part Two

    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

    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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  • Thanksgiving in Cambridge

    Thanksgiving in Cambridge

    It is somewhat ironic to spend the Thanksgiving holiday in England when, at some level, Thanksgiving is a celebration of having survived escaping England in the first place. But we had a wonderful day with my friends Rob and Shirley, who kindly met us in Cambridge and showed us around. My phone tallied the day…

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  • Views of York Minster

    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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  • LoHi

    LoHi

    We have lived in the Denver area for less than two years and there are many areas that are entirely unknown to us, so we make an effort to go to places just because we have never been there. It’s almost like travel, but closer. Our wedding anniversary was on a Sunday in August and…

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  • Victorian Light

    Victorian Light

    During our trip to Vancouver Island, my friend and I spent a late afternoon and the following morning wandering around the inner harbor area of Victoria, the capitol city of British Columbia. Being the provincial capitol, there was a parliament building, and it was stunning. The image above gives a taste of the ornateness of…

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  • Old Town Parker

    Old Town Parker

    I recently started a new job and it is a true work-from-home affair. This means that I spend a lot of time in my basement office—where I am now writing this blog post. It’s a nice office, and no one wants to commute, but my previous commute was often quite beautiful: there are mountains and…

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  • Thirty Minutes at Fort Casey

    Thirty Minutes at Fort Casey

    For the Whidbey Island photography workshop, we met at Camp Casey which is largely comprised of old barracks and such. Next door—on the other side of some woods—is Fort Casey, which has old fortifications and gun batteries. At some point a few fellow workshop-goers had gone over there, but for some reason I didn’t prioritize…

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  • Portugal a Posteriori

    Portugal a Posteriori

    Well, this is the twelfth and final post about my trip to Portugal’s Silver Coast. I figured that this was a good chance to sneak in a few pictures that I didn’t have space for the last few weeks. The first three are all architectural images using the PC Nikkor 19mm f/4E ED wide-angle tilt-shift…

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  • Camp Casey

    Camp Casey

    During the photography workshop on Whidbey Island, we met in an old building that was part of Camp Casey, one of many that all appear to be in current use. I never saw inside of any of the other buildings, but the inside of ours was quite nice, clean, and recently painted. All of which…

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