This was tricky to shoot since just to the left of frame in this photo there were 3 huge cranes putting up a new building. In fact I had to wait a while so that the one in frame moved out enough for me to take this shot. What a great mix of glass, steel […]
Continue Reading...Boulevard Circulaire at night, la Défense, Paris, France
Night time in la Défense, Paris brings out a whole new look and feel. It’s as if each building puts on it’s formal wear for a night out on the town. However in this case the skyscrapers ARE the town. The colour temperature of the interior illumination of the buildings ranges from blue green to […]
Continue Reading...Tour Opus, la Défense, Paris, France
I’m working to finish this new section for my portfolio of the la Défense, Paris business district, so this week I’ll be posting photographs from this shoot on the blog. While the Tour Opus is a nice looking building with clean lines, what really makes it special is that the building’s external glazed skin is […]
Continue Reading...Sagrada Familia under construction, Barcelona, Spain
The Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família (“Expiatory Church of the Holy Family”) in Barcelona has been under construction since 1882 and will be for at least another 16 years. There are over 300 construction workers, masons, artisans, architects and others working on the church at the moment. Of all of the amazing buildings that […]
Continue Reading...Fur Trade at Lachine National Historic Site, Lachine, Quebec
You’ll find this beautiful building at the western part of the Lachine Canal in the borough of Lachine in Montreal. The French explorers of the 1600s called les Voyageurs would depart from this location in their canoes to travel for thousands of miles inland in search of beaver pelts and trade with the first nations […]
Continue Reading...The Duomo, Campanile & Baptistry in Florence, Italy
Florence is not a very big city but that didn’t stop the people of Florence (Firenze) to build one of the biggest churches in the world. The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore is the Cathedral or Duomo of Florence and another example of a European church that took generations to complete. The baptistery is […]
Continue Reading...Maligne Lake at dusk, Jasper National Park, Canada
Maligne Lake in Jasper National Park in Alberta is one of those spectacular picture perfect places as is well evidenced in the photo above. I had been there earlier in the day and while there wasn’t a lot to photograph what there was is really breathtaking. I didn’t have the time to take the boat […]
Continue Reading...The Colosseum at night, Rome, Italy
What a great building to photograph! The Roman Colosseum originally known as the Flavian Amphitheatre (Amphitheatrum Flavium) was built from 70 AD to around 80 AD. It’s rather incredible that it has survived these last two thousand years considering all the wars, earthquakes, looters and stone thieves that it has had to endure. It must […]
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