Category:Black and White
Lobsters and Lighthouses, two excellent reasons to visit Maine. This is the Marshall Point Lighthouse which signals the eastern side of the southern entrance to Port Clyde harbor. In the mid 1800’s, Port Clyde was a major port with shipbuilding facilities and fish canning operations as well as supporting the shipping of granite from local quarries. Today it’s the home of the wonderfully named ‘Herring Gut Learning Center‘ which is a vital educational resource to the surrounding community. Love the […]
Thought I’d channel my inner Cartier-Bresson and post a photo I took in Phnom-Penh that I call Boy with Jar and Stool. I’m the first to admit its not in perfect focus – it was a last minute grab shot with a manual focus camera, one of those moments that you catch perfectly, imperfectly, or not at all. I shot the image way back in ’92 so this little fellow would be around 28 now and in all probability has […]
You can’t miss I.M. Pei’s pyramid entrance to the Louvre museum. I think it works architecturally simply because it is so out of place with it’s surroundings. To have made any structure sympathetic with the surrounding wings of the museum would have resulted in something truly horrendous. The Pyramid works, in my view, but note that it’s often not the fastest way into the Louvre and on a sunny summer’s day the heat outside in the courtyard can be stifling […]
I was recently playing at scanning some of my black and white negatives and came across this charming image I took some time late in 1998. It’s a sunny but chilly day, most likely a Sunday, and these three ladies are all engrossed in their books. You can tell it’s an ‘old’ photo as no-one has a smartphone! Take that same image today and probably two of the three would be reading on their phones. I’m struck at how most […]
I feel like I’m re-learning the ropes of blogging these days, hence the photo below. I took it a while back on board the Elissa, a Tall Ship from 1877, moored in Galveston harbor at the Texas Seaport Museum. If you’re into sailing you can take a Seamanship course on board and then actually sail the ship in open waters. Me, I think my days of climbing the rigging some 99 feet above the deck to set the mainsail are […]
A window in time, literally. I captured this view through the clock face at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris on the fifth floor, in the North-East corner of the museum. The space behind the clock face in the North-West corner is a restaurant and I don’t find the view through it as pleasing. Opening as a train station in 1900, by 1939 the platforms had become too short for the trains of that age. The French government saved the building […]