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Lord, Save Us
December 03, 2021 -
Notre-Dame de Dives-sur-Mer was built in 1087, allegedly by William the Conqueror, following his victory over the Saxon...
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Seeing Red
February 04, 2021 -
Photographing live music, particularly Jazz, is one of my special interests, although it only came about because I marri...
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The Reason For The Season
April 16, 2019 -
The tragedy of last night’s inferno has pressed me back into action with a new blog. One of the sensuous privileges of b...
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Perspectives
January 18, 2018 -
Drawing In The Eye The Corinth Canal is visually powerful, and an impressive example of engineering determination. Comp...
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Nine Mans Morris
January 11, 2018 -
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act 2, Scene 1. Titania speaks “…Contagious fogs, which falling in the land Have every pelt...
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What’s In A Name?
January 04, 2018 -
For Cataloguing of this image, see “Technical” at the foot of this blog I shared in my 1 January announcement that I ha...
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How Do You Re-Image An Icon?
March 09, 2017 -
Aesthetic, Aesthetic, Aesthetic We have all seen this image of the Brooklyn Bridge dozens, if not hundreds of times....
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Magic Night
February 25, 2017 -
The Magic So, I had a few micro-brewery beers with a friend at La Taverne du Cluny on rue de la Harpe, almost as good,...
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Holy Island - Bourgeois Island
February 17, 2017 -
History The island on which sits Notre Dame is the Medieval heart of Paris, originally separated into the western sec...
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The Majesty Of The Law
February 09, 2017 -
I don’t consider myself a « Street Photographer », like so many others who roam Paris, New York or Stratford-Upon-Avon,...
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Moskwa Sur Seine
February 02, 2017 -
Moskwa Sur Seine Quai Branly in Paris already had a long connection with Russia, even before the completion of the ne...
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Texture
January 26, 2017 -
Time Passes… I was privileged to take a peek into the past of an Estonian friend’s childhood, visiting the village of...
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How Do You Get To Carnegie Hall?
January 19, 2017 -
Answer: “Plan! Plan! Plan!” Well, the correct answer is “Practice! Practice! Practice!”, but I am not a violinist, I...
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Rue des Vertus 1917
January 05, 2017 -
Apologies I used a long break from my blog until 2017 to travel back a century in time to the Marais district, here i...
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Zuave
June 11, 2016 -
Déjà Vu All Over Again I “printed” the top image of “the Zuave” in black and white in order to echo the historical im...
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Never Leave Home...
April 21, 2016 -
…without a camera. I mean a “real” camera, not a phone. As I shared in last week’s blog, I am presently suffering from h...
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Staircase
March 31, 2016 -
I was attracted to photograph this staircase when leaving a party on the third floor of a Haussmann period apartment on...
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Trompe l'Oeil
March 24, 2016 -
The Plaza Hotel New York, reflected in “The Pond” in Central Park is a kind of “fools the eye” use of a water reflection...
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The Runner
March 17, 2016 -
This is one of many images that I like to take of people in silhouette. They frequently happen to be runners, but can al...
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Street Of The Dead : Road Of The Living
March 10, 2016 -
Cities of the dead are always fascinating. The customs of different cultures reflect the social and anthropological cert...
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Opening A Fern
March 03, 2016 -
Yesterday New Zealand started its referendum process to keep or change its national flag. The new proposal, which I like...
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Irish Jig
February 25, 2016 -
I love trying to capture the excitement of performances and the sense of the music, usually at Jazz events. Here are two...
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City Of Light
February 18, 2016 -
Paris has so many faces: from rundown, paint peeling charm, through bourgeois elegance to wedding-cake extravagance. It...
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Is This Annoying?
February 11, 2016 -
This image is “skewed” to the left for the very simple reason that, when I tried to frame the image straight on to the G...
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Born To Blush Unseen
January 29, 2016 -
“Full many a flow'r is born to blush unseen…” says Gray’s Elegy. I found this baby fern in the undergrowth on the edge o...
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Hommage To Paul Strand
January 21, 2016 -
I am grateful to an artist and photographic teacher, who also happens to be my cousin, for introducing me to the early 2...
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Hommage à Mondrian
January 08, 2016 -
Influences I have written before about the unconscious influence of accumulated art appreciation on my taste in image...
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Happy Christmas!
December 25, 2015 -
Happy Christmas! On the basis that this is a season of time when people of every faith and of none may take a moment...
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Siege Engine
December 18, 2015 -
Keeping Faith With The Past I fear that I am somewhat of an architectural pedant, who needs to be convinced of the ap...
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Now I Am Become Finance Man…
December 04, 2015 -
This image evokes in me the famous quote by Robert Oppenheimer on the occasion of the first test of an atomic bomb on Ju...
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DUMBO
November 26, 2015 -
No, this is clearly not Disney’s cute little flying elephant, but a district of Brooklyn between the Manhattan and Brook...
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Art Imitating Art Imitating Spirit
November 19, 2015 -
I was attracted to this angel hovering above us during a recent tour of La Madelaine church given by one of the priests.
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Paris Photo
November 12, 2015 -
I photograph the venue very time that I visit the annual Paris Photo show at le Grand Palais. The sheer exuberance of th...
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Dandelion
November 05, 2015 -
From Nature to Abstract I was stopped in my tracks in the Greek countryside by a very simple light effect. Some dande...
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1 World Trade Center
October 29, 2015 -
“Location, Location, Location” No, I don’t mean buying the most prime real estate in the world with a handful of trin...
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Electrowerkz 15 October 2015
October 25, 2015 -
Event Photography Although my photography is driven by my love of the natural and built environment, my marriage to a...
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1776
October 08, 2015 -
Visiting the new memorial site at “Ground Zero” is clearly the latest “must” for both domestic and foreign visitors to N...
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Super Moon Apology
October 02, 2015 -
Super moon Apology I beg your forgiveness for neglecting my blog last week in favour of photographing a “Super moon”...
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Where The Buffalo Roam?
September 17, 2015 -
This is another in-flight image, taken in December 2012 on the approach to Denver, Colorado. I was experimenting with us...
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Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
September 03, 2015 -
The Arc de Triomphe was constructed to celebrate the military prowess of the Napoleonic army after its victory at Auster...
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Hommage To Henri and Michael
August 28, 2015 -
That is to say, Cartier-Bresson and Kenna, of course. Knowingly repeating a “Study” previously executed to perfection...
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Sharp And Wide Or Soft and Close?
August 22, 2015 -
Sharp And Wide Or Soft And Close? A last blast of winter in March 2013 provided many snow-clad opportunities to captu...
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Frustrating Flower Carpet
August 15, 2015 -
Frustrating Flowers Every two years since 1986, the city of Brussels has carpeted the Grand Place with flowers at thi...
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Look Up!
July 17, 2015 -
I have mentioned previously that my photographic walking style involves regular turning around to view what had previous...
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Live The Dream
July 10, 2015 -
A couple sheltering at a bus stop on a freezing Winter night at Place de l’Opera captured my imagination as I wandered d...
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Balance and Purpose
July 03, 2015 -
Balance and Purpose A suburban garden near Paris on a Summer’s day delights the eye with its peacefulness, scents, ge...
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Le Frigo
June 27, 2015 -
Built in 1921, Le Frigo was the Parisian Cold Store facility until the central market at Les Halles moved out to Rungis.
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High Flight
June 21, 2015 -
So there I was at the Paris Air show, strapped into Alpha Jet No 1 belonging to the leader of the first section of the P...
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Stillness
June 12, 2015 -
Dawn on a lake in Bavaria. Hardly a breath of wind. The peace and serenity of reeds, leaves and water. Unconscious re...
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...and The Smell
June 05, 2015 -
This scene stopped me in my tracks yesterday, as I walked past an anonymous apartment block in Paris’ 17 th arrondisseme...
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Still Life
May 29, 2015 -
“Still life” indeed. In fact, they are not just still, they are dead. Notwithstanding their lifeless state, it is all th...
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Literas Loquendi
May 23, 2015 -
I owe this classics-based title to the occasion when I took this photograph, which was the World Premiere of composer Jo...
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Apocalypse Now
May 14, 2015 -
While working in Hawaii on a soon-to-be-revealed project, I spent several days and nights photographing the crater of Ki...
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Reach For The Sky!
May 07, 2015 -
I have been privileged twice in my life, once in London and once in New York, to live on the 40th floor of a residential...
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Oh! That Light!
May 02, 2015 -
Sitting in a friend’s kitchen one Summer’s day in Dallas 10 years ago, I was gripped with awe, when I saw the harsh ligh...
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Eiffel Snow
April 24, 2015 -
This image reflects the knife-sharp cold and snow-swept visual conditions of an otherwise enchanting Winter’s day. Unusu...
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Pont de la Concorde
April 19, 2015 -
That light! This image was taken in the early evening during May, when the golden light of sunset in the West was sla...
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La Coupole de Jacques
April 10, 2015 -
This magnificent Art Nouveau cupola is the 1912 work of the architect Ferdinand Chanut, and his glass artist Jacques Gru...
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Dilemmas
March 28, 2015 -
Is Colour Best? Art appreciation depends on an individual’s physical condition, particularly the wide variety of visu...
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Fly Me To The Moon
March 23, 2015 -
“…and let me play among the stars”. This one is for all the astronauts out there. Asterisms Viewing things “out th...
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Les Toits de Paris
March 14, 2015 -
The roofs of Paris have an eternal fascination for photographers. I have seen many taken from the heights of Montmartre,...
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Mississippi sur Loire
March 06, 2015 -
A moss-covered, drowning tree trails its twigs in the languorous flow of a dawn-impregnated river. The sun peeps through...
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Greece Is Drowning
February 19, 2015 -
Anguish This photograph is a metaphor for the anguished situation of the Greeks. My use of “Photeinos” as a brand com...
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Breaker
February 14, 2015 -
The end of a half-the-Pacific journey, as a wave breaks gently on the dawn-lit shore of Hawaii island. Narrow Vision?...
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Leviathan
January 31, 2015 -
After taking another huge breath, a Humpback Whale slides back into the Pacific Ocean, off of the west coast of the Big...
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Hawaii Project : Hokusai
January 23, 2015 -
Bonus This is an aerial image taken on the Las Vegas to San Francisco leg of my journey to the Big Island of Hawaii,...
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Surprised By Joy II
January 16, 2015 -
Having recently read Henri Cartier Bresson’s views on how to become a photographer, basically “read the manual” and “lea...
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Abstract Water
December 26, 2014 -
Looking deeply into the whirls and eddies of a pool of water can reveal strange sights. Enlargement I am always in...
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American Xmas
December 20, 2014 -
The newscasters are describing today’s “last minute” shopping frenzy on the last weekend before the Festival. Here is ho...
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Consider the lilies of the field...
November 22, 2014 -
And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet...
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Surprised By Joy
November 14, 2014 -
When you have a sight like this…whatcha gonna do? Seize The Time One Summer evening in 2003, I returned to my 40...
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"Give me your tired, your poor..."
November 07, 2014 -
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shor...
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"A Sea of Steps"
October 31, 2014 -
Frederick Evans’ 1903 gelatin silver print of Wells Cathedral is iconic in the history of architectural photography and...
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Reflections
October 24, 2014 -
My previous blog post spoke about my fascination with mirrors and reflections, while the one before that flowed from my...
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The “Waters” of Versailles
October 11, 2014 -
The Greek god Apollo drives his chariot up from the sea in a cauldron of pulverized water. Happenstance This was...
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Anti –Gravity!
October 04, 2014 -
Amazing! The latest New York taxis “hover” with anti-gravity engines, eliminating the need for wheels, saving the metrop...
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La Serenissima
September 26, 2014 -
The Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute, taken from where the canal Rio de Palazzo o de Canonica empties into the Lagoo...
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Stark Beauty
September 18, 2014 -
I have been trying to capture the stark beauty of this building for years and am still not content with the results I am...
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Super Moon Redux
September 11, 2014 -
Since the moon changes position significantly from day to day, this month I had to design another point-of-view to captu...
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Ancient and Modern
September 05, 2014 -
My personal favourite photographer of Paris is Eugène Atget. When one artist admires another, it seems inevitable that i...
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“Too Many Notes Mr. Mozart?”
August 30, 2014 -
This wonderful line was thrown at the wunderkind by Emperor Joseph II in the 1984 film Amadeus, which figures among my p...
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And Here Is One That I prepared Earlier...
August 22, 2014 -
Excuse the reference to the processes of TV Celebrity Chefs, but I couldn’t resist it, because I am responding to a grea...
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Super Moon At The Conciergerie
August 15, 2014 -
Super Moon At The Conciergerie What excitement as I set up my equipment in advance of the arrival of the Super Moon....
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What's in a name?
May 03, 2014 -
The Sentinel How does the title of this image enhance it? Rather than discuss the image-related issues of this photo...
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Work with what you’ve got
April 26, 2014 -
Experimenting I was pondering the idea of using the phone in my pocket as a back-up camera, even if only to record idea...
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High Flight
February 04, 2013 -
Musing about Flight I regularly try to emulate my guru, Thom Hogan (see www.bythom.com), by capturing in-flight images...
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The Presidential Inauguration and the Wichita Lineman
February 01, 2013 -
Welcome to my Blog I participated in the American Presidential Inaugural, although I did so from Wichita, Kansas, since...
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