Standing at the corner of Sheep Lane and Church Hill in the town of Midhurst, we are looking right into the heart of an old English market town. Sheep are no longer driven from their pastures down Sheep Lane, nor domesticated wildfowl herded along nearby...
The lounge of the Spread Eagle Inn A highlight of our regular trips to the town of Midhurst, England is at least one evening in the lounge of the Spread Eagle Inn. There’s nothing that staves off a cold winters evening chill better than sipping...
My son is really into the Rick Riordan myth books. In The Red Pyramid his characters use the Obelisk in the Place De La Concorde as a portal to escape from a fight in Egypt. Riordan’s books are really good at cleverly weaving stories together,...
While composing this shot I was thinking about how grounding this was for me. Even though I’m not particularly religious and I hadn’t been inside St Mary’s Church, Easebourne in many years, it brought back many memories. Some happy and some not so happy. St...
Brookside Gardens Nestled in the sprawling suburbs of Washington DC, Brookside Gardens is a beautiful collection of well-manicured gardens and open spaces. Brookside is named after the numerous winding streams and brooks that pervade this area. The site has grown from its original 25 acres...
The wooden gate in the north wall of the Walled Garden at Cowdray evokes childhood memories of the wonderful children’s book The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett. After walking through the lush flowerbeds you’re left wondering what’s beyond it. Easy to miss during a...
The Musée de l’Armée in Paris keeps time with its own history with a collection of wonderfully ornate sundials on the north wall of the Cour d’Honneur. The institution of the Musée de l’Armée was established as recently as 1905 but the original building was...
New York is just a three-hour train ride from where we live so when my sister and brother in law visited the city from Reno last January we hopped on the Amtrak and headed to the Big Apple. I took this photo of the Richard...
In addition to the rides, parades, and infinite ways to part with your hard-earned money, Disney’s Magic Kingdom provides a photographer numerous opportunities to capture a landscape photograph at Disney. This was an image I shot on the walk into the Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Undersea...
Much of my photographic portfolio is focused on historic landmarks and landscape stories but not all. For this image I took a break, capturing drama in the Big Top. Taking good photographs of moving people, in a dark and dusty circus tent is a real...
