Temple Art — the Nile
I took a boat along the Nile from Luxor to the dam at Aswan and then flew on to Abu Simbel in May 2011. It was a fabulous tour made even better by the dete...
Category: Travel
Palermo — art and grunge
An album of photos from a 2-day visit to Palermo, Sicily, in 2018. A fascinating, if unlovely, city with uniquely complex history and some outstanding architect...
Roof architecture of Japan
Yes, I know this sounds a bit weird. Images of Japanese roofs? Really? Looking through hundreds of images I took in Japan last year, I couldn’t work out how...
Three Calendars for 2020
Printable calendars for 2020 in three different sizes.
Domes
Domes, like pyramids, are at the intersection of engineering and art; we admire them for both reasons.
A brief visit to Portugal
Some images from a brief visit to the major cities of Portugal in 2017.
San Francisco
A collection of images taken in June, 2018, during a visit to San Francisco to see the SFO Opera’s production of Wagner’s Ring des Niebelungen. The...
Bologna Rosso
A view from the Torre d’Asinelli For decades after World War II, while the increasingly corrupt Christian Democrats held national office in Italy, the B...
Granada
The Alhambra of Granada with Charles V’s palace from the Mirador de San Nicholas The cover of the eBook shows a familiar view of the Alhambra (“The Red One...
Toledo
The Organ at the back of the Choir of the Cathedral of St Mary of Toledo The city, lodged in a bend of high cliffs over the river Tagus, has been a fortress ...