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Louvre
The Islamic Art Wing exhibition space designed by the French architect Rudy Ricciotti and the Italian architect Mario Bellini, sits under an undulating golden canopy in the middle of the museum’s neo-Classical Visconti Courtyard. The Italian Renaissance hall empty just before closing time.
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December in Paris
Notre-Dame Cathedral & Pont au Double bridge Eiffel Tower & Canal Saint-Martin
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Andy Goldsworthy, Storm King Wall
The wall was built stone-by-stone upon the remnants of an old farm wall that Goldsworthy found in the woods overlooking Moodna Creek, at Storm King’s eastern boundary. Rising to a maximum height of about five feet, it follows a path the artist chose—winding through a row of trees that grew from seeds to saplings to…
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Autumn Colors
Autumn foliage in all shades of red, yellow, purple, black, orange, pink, magenta, blue and brown. Oslo, Norway | October 2012 Prague, Czech Republic | October 2014 Lancaster, Massachusetts | October 2006 Brooklyn, New York | October 2008
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Prague, City With a Thousand Years of Architecture
Prague, the Czech capital on the Vltava River with the spirit of a new Bohemia Europe. The history of architecture in Prague: Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassical, Art Nouveau & Cubist, Functionalist, and Communist.
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Oslo Bay
In 2013 we left Oslo, Norway for Vienna, Austria. The trip was on the Color Line ferry from Oslo to Kiel, Germany, which offered a beautiful view of Oslo bay. It was late September, the warm sunray felt faded, the trees almost finished turning color, and the air already had a crispy winter breeze. Oslo looked and felt like it was settling…
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Wolfgangsee & Attersee
View of Wolfgangsee (Lake Wolfgang) and Attersee (Lake Atter) from the Schafberg Mountain in the Salzkammergut, lake district of Austria. Wolfgangsee named after Saint Wolfgang of Regensburg (c. 934 – 994). He is regarded as one of the three great German saints of the 10th century, the other two being Saint Ulrich and Saint Conrad of Constance.…
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Oslofjord Islands
The Oslofjord is a large protected inlet with many islands of varying sizes dotted with hundreds of small cabins. The Oslofjord is not a fjord (a long, narrow, deep inlet of the sea between high cliffs) in the geological sense. In Norwegian, the term “fjord” can refer to a wide range of waterways. The bay is divided into the inner and outer…
