Remains of Rome – a Chapbook

Chapbooks are a traditional art-form: small hand- or desktop-printed booklets bound, in this case with saddle-stitch. I recently made 20 … More

Billilla Blossoms

This is a small file of images that might justifiably be called ‘shutter therapy’. When the COVID ‘lockdown’ (grr!) prevents … More

Palermo — art and grunge

An album of photos from a 2-day visit to Palermo, Sicily, in 2018. A fascinating, if unlovely, city with uniquely complex history and some outstanding architecture.

Roof architecture of Japan

Yes, I know this sounds a bit weird. Images of Japanese roofs? Really? Looking through hundreds of images I took … More

Domes

Domes, like pyramids, are at the intersection of engineering and art; we admire them for both reasons.

San Francisco

A collection of images taken in June, 2018, during a visit to San Francisco to see the SFO Opera’s production … More

Bologna Rosso

A view from the Torre d’Asinelli For decades after World War II, while the increasingly corrupt Christian Democrats held national … More

Granada

The Alhambra of Granada with Charles V’s palace from the Mirador de San Nicholas The cover of the eBook shows … More

Toledo

The Organ at the back of the Choir of the Cathedral of St Mary of Toledo The city, lodged in … More

Cordoba

The colonnaded (‘hipostyle’) hall of the mosque with its doubled Moorish arches and columns of jasper, onyx, marble, granite and … More