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Flying Buttresses

December 18, 2021 - Poor Notre Dame de Paris! Discovering t he fire was one of those times that you remember where you were, when you heard...
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The Veil

October 16, 2021 - Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris is the last resting place of Oscar Wilde, Chopin and Edith Piaf among numerous other lum...
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Composition Rules OK?

April 15, 2021 - Apart from the grafitti tag which originated in 1970’s Britain, there is a serious question to be asked concerning “rule...
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Millenium Saint Paul's

April 08, 2021 - Both St. Paul’s and the adjacent Millenium Bridge are architectural gems, complementing each other across 3 centuries of...
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A 2020 Wink to Willy Ronis

December 31, 2020 - Paris In The Year of Covid Since I paused this blog in January 2018, the world has changed, but Art has not. My camer...
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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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I'm Back!!

January 01, 2018 - I’m Back!! After nearly a year’s “breather” during which time I have undertaken various photographic adventures, change...
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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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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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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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Wipeout!

April 14, 2016 - This series of 3 images preceding, during and after the surfer ends his run should have had a fourth crash “on film”, i.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Honourable Mentions PX3 2015

August 07, 2015 - With your indulgence, I am sharing a Press Release from PX3 concerning my " Honourable Mentions" for each of my entries...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Chinese Firecracker

January 11, 2015 - Seeing The Unseeable Irrespective of the technical means needed to “freeze” this event, I am fascinated by the aesthe...
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In the Palace of the Ice Queen

January 02, 2015 - The Grand Palais in Paris became a Winter Fairyland with a giant ice-skating rink attracting lengthy queues of children...
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Centrifugal

December 04, 2014 - Its Christmas season again and La Grande Roue has been installed in the Place de la Concorde, ready for intrepid sightse...
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A Reflection On The Night

November 27, 2014 - This photograph resulted from a reflex reaction, driven by my long-standing image-making interest in reflections, the ni...
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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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Trompe l’Oeuil

October 16, 2014 - Baroque art, particularly French painting, is full of masterful examples of images which trick the eye into believing th...
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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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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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Down The Rabbit Hole

July 25, 2014 - Is serendipity also magic? Not quite, in this case, which was the result of me looking over the parapet of the Pont Alex...
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I’m Walking In The Air

July 11, 2014 - This image follows my “rule number 6” from last week’s blog. Because I had not been able to stop and invest time in capt...
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Transformers

June 28, 2014 - Fear not! This week’s blog is not about the noisy, violent science fiction film now hitting the screens, but about the t...
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Ghostbusters!

June 13, 2014 - This really is the building that the filmmakers used as their model for the creepy finale scene in the imaginative 1984...
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I See You

June 05, 2014 - One of my passions is “Event Photography”, specifically Jazz performances. I love the joy of necessarily impromptu photo...
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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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“Explosante-fixe”

April 18, 2014 - The Master I recently visited the Henri Cartier Bresson (HCB) retrospective at the Centre Pompidou in Paris and am stil...
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Everyone's Favourite

October 10, 2013 - At my recent Exhibition "Paris d'Esperance", this image generated the greatest reaction. The post explains why I am grat...
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The Party's Over

May 29, 2013 - An experiment in pushing the camera to its limit. Shooting parameters were: Device: Nikon D800 Lens: VR 70-200mm f/2.8...
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Scoliid Wasp

March 30, 2013 - A walk on the wild side So, here I am in May 2008 wandering the back country of Porto Heli Bay on the Peleponesse penin...
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I Rise at Night

February 08, 2013 - An image from my recent exhibition "New York by Night - Paris by Night" currently featured on the Welcome page and in th...
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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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