Horses in Suburbia

Olympus Trip 35

I have a soft spot for Olympus Trips-my first camera that I took my first photographs was a modern 2000s cheap model with fixed zoom but it served me well for years until the day it accidentally took an underwater plunge. Since then I've sought an older Olympus Trip and this one with its ring flash caught my eye.

Salisbury Cathedral

Salisbury Cathedral has a slight problem. The crossing tower (the tallest in the UK) was too heavy for the structure underneath it. There were three attempts to counteract this problem with buttresses, arches, and finally iron ties. So there is a slight tilt visible from the outside and the columns underneath are impressively bent. I did not know anything about this before visiting, my first inkling of the issues were the interior bracing arches above the bending columns...

King's College Chapel

Now here's a photo that lost something in the scanning. As my mother's boss kept the punt steady, I grabbed my camera to capture the sun just beginning to glitter against the panes of the Chapel's windows before we went too far down the river. Though this may be one of the more standard University of Cambridge pictures (ever), it will always remind me of that enjoyable, non-relaxing punt ride. Punts are flat bottomed boats moved/navigated with one really long oar (longer than I am tall). My punting skills are firmly underdeveloped...

Zaragoza

Zaragoza has 3 churches/cathedrals/basilicas less than a minute from one another. It is an easy city to get into, difficult to escape.

"Ireland"

Unfortunately, this picture's only caption is "Ireland" which I would've guessed by the sheep. I do appreciate that even if my photographic skills have not improved that much over the years, at least my organization has! I'd wager that this was expired film, the lack of contrast at the corners is a giveaway. But what I've always enjoyed about expired film is how it accentuates the effects of light entering the lens...

Muíños

In the Rias of Galiza, you can always count on there being wind; the electricity is not as reliable but you can bet, winter or summer, there will be some wind. So a recent addition to the natural landscapes of the mountains are rows of windmills only accessible by unpaved windy one-lane 2-way roads. The windmills get the best views of the countryside. Every time I see windmills in other countries (Ireland, Greece) my mind always jumps back to the Galician mountains.

Roman baths

After the darkness of the spring source, the Great Bath practically invites a dip
Bath sticks in my head in many ways, despite that I only spent perhaps 4 hours there. I remember most clearly 3 things from my visit to Bath. The unbroken crescent aligned buildings of High St., the Roman baths with their orange, green, blue water and brick floor supports (to allow steam heating), and the legions (it seemed) of graduates from the University of Bath, all excitement and promise.

the first time I ever went to Ireland, it was to take a summer course in archaeology. Appropriately we went on multiple field trips a week. We took many pit stops during which my class would burst out of the little coach and run in many directions in order to see the most in the little time. Upon returning to Dublin from our trip to the Hill of Tara, we took a pitstop in Tara...which found me standing in the middle of a cow field, taking a picture of my roommate sitting on the wall protecting the church's foundations.

Bilbao Guggenheim

First Gaudí, then Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. My father was relieved to hear that Gehry is an American architect. (well, he's Canadian by birth...) Spain has ample competition for loco artists/architects. Well, anyway, being the only tourist destination I got to see in Bilbao, I spent more time walking around it than actually in it.

Barcelona- Ecclesiastical

Catedral de Barcelona's tower (from the roof)

Ramblas at your back, early medieval (very dark inside) church ahead
I want to go back to Barcelona...its (relatively) consistent economic strength means that it contains a wealth of different styles in one city, not that common in Spanish cities where often many decades are skipped.

Park Güell

I suppose this is the time to admit that most of what I wanted to see in Barcelona was Gaudí's work? My father, always rational/practical in his approach to buildings, referred him as "el loco" as in "¿vamos a ver más del loco?" whenever I wanted to check out another building.

Ely

The very first time I went to England, I stayed at Cambridge; at Cambridge you have to have status to walk on the grass, use certain paths...etc. Thus, I spent most of the trip very cautious of trespassing...I suspect this was the Cathedral of Ely's rectory. I was too cautious to walk down the path to find out!

Light Effect

Gaudí's model of La Sagrada Familia. I've always been fascinated by architectural models but this one is in a very, very dark room, so I had to play with the photo...

the Western facade of the Cathedral de Santiago de Compostela is easily the most photographed part of the cathedral. Part of me has always suspected that half of that notoriety is due to the handy square in front it (el Praza do Obradoiro) that allows photographers enough of a clear line of sight to get the whole thing in their viewfinder even if they use vintage cameras like I do...heh. Well, anyway, this cathedral is easily the cathedral that is most familiar to me so I enjoy taking photos of more random points of view. This one shows the Western facade's towers but from the cloisters.

Praia das Catedrais: Caves

when the glaciers and the sea carved out this beach, they also created a cave system

Praia das Catedrais

Praia das Catedrais, Ribadeo, Galicia during an overcast holiday

Abanqueiro: Una Vista

in the midst of a cornfield, there is a rock that has afforded generations of children tons of entertainment. a view from it.
this is expired 35mm from an old camera

Las Ramblas

en Barcelona

La Catedral del Salvador

en Zaragoza