"With its fanciful grotesques, its colorful leaded glass, its stone and leather finishes and timber features, it is as though one of the famed illustrators of children's tales ...had been asked to prepare detailed drawings for a northern European manor house," states the National Register of Historic Places application.
Photography allows us to travel through not just space but also time. We can experience the skyline of Paris in 1935, courtesy of Pierre Auradon. His study of light and shadow, shot on the roof of
Historic Green-Wood Cemetery Gargoyle
Anglo-Saxon humour. Doing something decidedly rude down the drainpipe...
London is such a great walking city - and with a hikers body (long legs, strong back, weak mind) I can walk there all day - but I sure feel it at night any more. I was in London for a few days in January 2013 and it was like coming home to an old friend since I've been there so many times but there is always something new to see. On this trip I just bopped from place to place without any real plan as to what to see - and it turned out fine!
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I was fascinated by the stone medieval carvings in the city of Carcassone, the largest and best preserved walled city in Europe. The faces were so expressive that you could only marvel at how
North Quad - Chapel
A STARTLED headteacher has spotted the spooky ghost seemingly of a “Victorian boy” in a photo taken inside a 120-year-old building. Bill Bradbury snapped the photo in an alleyway that r…
From the facade of Lincoln College, Oxford. Might this be an 'Alice in Wonderland' reference?
The Three Devils of St Peter In the nineteenth century a very observant vicar at this church noticed that plans for building a new structure next door intruded by one foot onto church territory. He raised legal objections and forced the architect to redraw the plans. In gleeful triumph he added three terracotta devils to the building facing Cornhill from the South. These can easily be seen silhouetted against the sky from on the north side.
The walking tour is Darkest Vicdtorian London. The place is The Borough, Southwark. The brand is London Walks. Off-the-beaten path we go – into hard-scrabble, Victorian Londoners' London. Dickensian London. But also Chaucer's London, Shakespeare's London. And our London: Borough Market, e.g.
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This photo was taken at the Lednice Castle, which is in Lednice in South Moravia, Czech Republic. This castle, and the dog gargoyle are featured in the 2006 remake of The Omen. Winged dragon gargoy…
The idea of capturing something in photography before it disappears dates back almost to the dawn of the medium.
Look up, look around. That’s what we do, really, we Christians, during this Advent season. We look up to our heavenly Father, and to the Son Who came to
