Lucid Stead: Phillip K. Smith III’s Mirrored Desert Artwork
At first, the small wooden structure seems to have pieces missing. Strips of desert and sky appear where solid walls should be, while the re...
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Lava Entering the Ocean: Kawika Singson’s Close-Up Footage
Orange lava and dark ocean water make a startling pair. One seems to flow with a heavy, glowing persistence; the other rises and falls aroun...
The Pole House, Fairhaven: Architecture Above the Great Ocean Road
From the walkway, the Pole House can seem to hang above the coast with very little connecting it to the ground. Move to another angle and th...
The Moses Bridge at Fort de Roovere: A Passage Through the Moat
From the bank, the Moses Bridge can seem to disappear into the moat. Step onto the crossing and the perspective changes: the water is beside...
Pamban Bridge: The Historic Crossing and the New Railway Route
A train crosses open water toward Rameswaram, with the sea on both sides and the mainland slowly falling behind. Pamban’s railway crossing h...
Windowless Aircraft: CPI’s Panoramic Cabin Concept and Its Passenger Questions
Imagine a cabin wall that shows the sky around the aircraft, even when your seat is nowhere near a physical window. That was the memorable i...
Franck Bohbot’s House of Books: Library Interiors and Reading-Room Architecture
A long reading table leads toward a distant wall. Shelves repeat around the room, and a ceiling gives the whole scene a sense of scale. Fran...
El Castillo at Chichén Itzá: The Temple of Kukulcán in Its City
El Castillo rises from an open clearing with such a strong silhouette that it can seem to stand for all of Chichén Itzá. It is a magnificent...
Andy Lee’s Roads Less Travelled: Fifteen Landscape Photographs
A road disappearing into the distance asks a quiet question: what is around the next bend? Andy Lee’s photographs make that curiosity the ce...
Cateura’s Recycled Orchestra: The Craft and Teaching Behind the Music
A discarded object can look entirely different when someone knows how to work with it. In the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura, that transforma...
Nugget Point/Tokata: Lighthouse Views and the Catlins Coast
The path narrows towards a white lighthouse, and beyond it the sea breaks around a scatter of rock stacks. Nugget Point/Tokata gives a wonde...
Aruba Beyond the Beach Postcard: Trees, Coastline and Island Days
Aruba’s beach photographs often begin with three simple ingredients: pale sand, blue water and a tree shaped into an unmistakable silhouette...
Beth Moon’s Ancient Trees: Portraits of Time in Twenty Photographs
Some trees draw your attention with a broad crown; others hold it through a twisted trunk or branches that seem to have grown around a long ...
John Stortz and Wolf: A Dog’s-Eye Thread Through American Landscapes
A white dog standing beside a mountain lake changes the scale of the whole photograph. The peaks remain impressive, but the scene now has a ...
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Corinth: Ancient Ruins, Acrocorinth and the Canal as Separate Visits
“Let’s visit Corinth” can mean several different days. You might be imagining the columns of an ancient temple, a fortress high above the la...
Venice’s Grand Canal: Palaces, Working Waterways and Views from the Bridges
Photo: Daniel Viñé Garcia. The Grand Canal is a wonderful introduction to Venice because the city keeps moving around you. A public boat pul...
Fifteen Places from a 2015 Travel List: Landscapes, Cities and Heritage
Sometimes choosing a trip becomes easier when you stop asking which destination is best and start asking what kind of days you want. A park ...
