Archive for the ‘Architecture’ Category

Pier Underbelly

Pier Underbelly

Sometimes it can be difficult choosing appropriate photos to use as wallpapers for this site. I’m well aware that the internet has covered the market for images of kittens and our favourite celebrities. Thanks internet… Anyway, this photo be it devoid of kittens, still seems to pull some form of emotional response from me. It’s [...]

Venetian Traffic

Venetian Traffic

“If you read a lot, nothing is as great as you’ve imagined. Venice is - Venice is better.” – Fran Lebowitz Venice is an interesting place to visit. Yes, absolutely it is more amazing and grand than you could expect. The architecture and culture is unique and historic. But it can be tempered, in the summer months, [...]

Colosseum

Colosseum

The problem with photo’s of large, famous landmarks is that we’ve all seen them a hundred times from a hundred different angles. It’s hard to do something different. Unusual perspectives help. And to be fair, unless you’ve been there, who cares right? When you choose photo’s for use as a desktop background, you have different [...]

 
Grieving Mother

Grieving Mother

This is a memorial sculpture for dead soldiers (I can’t find the actual name of it anywhere. If you know, be so kind as to leave a comment), in Berlin. It depicts a mother with her dead son. I found Berlin to be quite an emotional city. There are still a lot of memories from the war [...]

Eiffel Stairwell

Eiffel Stairwell

I was on holiday in Paris with my parents and as all Parisian tourists, we went up the Eiffel Tower. However being young and male, I proposed we use the stair’s over the much more sedate and probably less awesome elevator. Aside from being an immense climb up flight after flight of increasingly elevated stairs, the [...]