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  • Garbage barge loading dumpster from an apartment building at canalside; onlookers on the bridge, workmen on the barge and sidewalk.
    Daily-life-Venezia_200402-4-1.jpg
  • Snow on the cobbles and roofs; head on view of a cottage converted into a souvenir shop, its doors open bearing shelves for display of souvenirs for sale.  Adjoining cottage has bright blue walls.  A rhythm of square, rectangular, and round shapes makes a geometric two dimensional structure. Street in the 17th century was occupied by goldsmiths, hence its name.  Subsequently redeveloped in the time of Maria Theresa in the 18th century; in the 19th and early 20th century, squatters' housing; now occupied by expensive souvenir shops and restaurants.
    Prague-Hradcany-Golden-Lane-CZR20090...jpg
  • Tympanum over the doorway of a house in Ayvalik showing date 1886.
    Ayvalik TUR199710-02-16.jpg
  • Colorfully-painted house front on Burano, Venice.  Laundry hanging in front of one house; umbrellas hanging open and upside down from  a wooden framework in front of another house.  Main colors blue, red, orange.
    Burano-house-Venezia_ITA200403-6-6.jpg
  • Fairly elaborate wooden spirit house on its pole just outside a guest house in the capital city of Laos.  The spirit house has multiple flying roofs and a front veranda filled with food offerings.  The whole is festooned with fairy light, unlit in the late afternoon sun but lit at dark.
    Spirit_house_Laotian_LAO200602_372.jpg
  • Three quarter view of the house built by Jim Thompson where he lived in Bangkok until his mysterious death in Malaysia.  Peaked roof, wooden panel walls in traditional Thai style.  It is a peaceful oasis within the crowded noise of the city.
    Jim_Thompson_house_THA200603_347).jpg
  • Front view of a small stilt house, showing access ladder and clusters of tools and equipment hanging in the shade underneath.  The woven straw matting wall of a larger house next door is shown.
    Cambodia_Tonle_Sap_KHM200602-206.jpg
  • Tonle Sap, near Khampon Khleang : fishing village on stilts.  Wooden ladders separate two to three levels of the houses.  A quirky version of a high rise dwelling.
    Cambodia_Tonle_Sap_KHM200602-199.jpg
  • One doorway to the Jim Thompson house in Bangkok.  Potted plant centered in the doorway (visitors are not supposed to use it) flanked by two ancient dragon sculptures.  The house walls are red-toned wooden panels in traditional Thai style.
    Jim_Thompson_house_THA200603_349.jpg
  • Intense sunlight and a festoon of shadows from electric wiring characterize the facade of a stone house.  Barred window, painted wooden door, and a sense that the house is being kept if not lived in.
    Ayvalik TUR199710-1-1.jpg
  • Lavenham architecture : half timbered house, painted orange, with carved wooden door and leaded windows.  Facade from the street, including sidewalk of multicolored stones.
    Lavenham townscape ENG200701-0004.jpg
  • Detail of a house facade in Ayvalik showing pilaster topped by a re-used Roman Corinthian capital.  Layers of old paint in green, yellow, purple, orange, and blue, in a multicolored but shabby composition.  Recent-seeming house number on a metal plaque suggests it is occupied.
    Ayvalik TUR199710-17.jpg
  • Ho Chi Minh's Stilt House, where he lived and worked, in Hanoi.  View of the interior, showing study (left) and bedroom (right).  The house is small and simple, as Ho Chi Minh lived simply.  Its spacial design and surfaces are exquisite and elegant however. the image composition is a rather rigid geometric.
    Hanoi_Stilt_House_VTN200602-320.jpg
  • White, black, red, yellow, and beige in a design of squares and rectangles make a Mondriaan-like graphic pattern on a well-maintained old house in Ayvalik.
    Ayvalik TUR199710-02-8.jpg
  • Vaulted ceiling of the restored Chapter House, Westminster Abbey, London.  Emphasizes the radiating ribs and surrounding stained glass (modern replacements).  The structure was built in the 13th century; restored in the Victorian period.  The Chapter House is entered from the abbey cloister.
    Chapter-house-Gothic-ceiling-circula...jpg
  • Row houses in Ayvalik, newly built on traditional design.  Angular projecting upper storeys, curved iron protective bars on lower windows, arched doorways colored orange and purple.
    Ayvalik TUR199710-35a.jpg
  • Refurbished old Greek house on a narrow street in Ayvalik.  Freshly painted, window boxes, and flourishing decorative plants suggest occupancy.
    Ayvalik TUR199710-02-9.jpg
  • Geometric patterns of rectangles from sun and shadows cast on the attic walls of a 19th century late Georgian house in Edinburgh.  Blue sky and white fluffy clouds visible through the glass.  Point of view looking upward
    AB199310-33.jpg
  • Charter House, Westminster Abbey
    ENG201605--5085.jpg
  • New house building in a Laotian village.  Man on a ladder, woman on the ground, boy up under the roof, all wielding stakes into place to hold up the roof.  A do-it-yourself project for the whole family.
    Home building Laos LAO200601_0086.jpg
  • York Minster Chapter House, center vault intersection of ribs which radiate outward into star points; white Lamb of God on center boss. It forms a kind of mandala for those looking up.
    AT199310-22.jpg
  • Old Third Haven Friends Meeting House, 1684, Easton, MD: window showing reflections of outside and view of church interior with other windows.  Opaque and transparent.
    USA.MD200809--0075.jpg
  • Front view of a stilt house with access ladder standing in the middle of a planted field off the rural road leading to Tonle Sap lake.
    Cambodia_Tonle_Sap_KHM200602-202.jpg
  • Detail of carved beam and stone proto-Ionic column capital in the courtyard of El Greco's house, Toledo, Spain.
    Construction_detail_16th_century_ESP...jpg
  • Mr. Somsy Saeton, director of a village school in northern Laos.  Frontal head shot, horizontal format.  The straw roof of his house is visible behind his head.
    Portrait-Laotian-farmer-LAO200601_00...jpg
  • Interior of the dining room in the House of Augustus, on the Palatine Hill, Rome; opened to visitors in 2008 after years of careful restoration.
    Palatine-house-Augustus-interior-Rom...jpg
  • Facade of the Jim Thompson house in Bangkok, vertical orientation.
    Jim_Thompson_house_THA200603_337.jpg
  • Detail of the floor mosaic in the House of Hippolytus, Complutum, near Alcala de Henares, Spain.  An unusual provincial Roman design with varied motifs in monochrome (black, white, brown) with touches of red.
    Complutum_mosaic_ESP2201210--4016.jpg
  • The facade of the house, built of stone with walls coated in painted plaster, forms a desolate and somehow compelling graphic geometry in dark red, yellow, and cream colors.  The interior seems ruined though the exterior has presence.
    Ayvalik TUR199710-01-12.jpg
  • Bronze statue of Hodge, Dr. Samuel Johnson's cat, seated on his Dictionary (with an oyster) looks across Gough Square at Johnson's house.  Early evening lamps lit, rain-sodden cobblestones.  Rain drops sparkle on the cat's head, neck, and body too. Statue, by Jon Buckley, 1997.
    Cat_statue_bronze_London_ENG200401-2...jpg
  • Several neighboring houses in a floating village on Tonle Sap.  One person in the center is doing laundry in the lake water.  There are other indications of daily living.
    Cambodia_Tonle_Sap_KHM200602-178.jpg
  • Landscape view northward toward China from the Mekong River.  Buddhist spirit house in the foreground, longtail motor boats moored at the river's edbe, sand reaches of the low river, distant mountains.  Orange roofs on the horizon are large casinos across the border in China, where rich Thais go to gamble.
    Golden_Triangle_THA200603_046.jpg
  • Closeup of two hands, belonging to two different people, each gloved and holding a trowel, scraping away in rocky dirt in search of late Roman evidence in Yorkshire's Chapel House Wood.
    Archaeological_work_AR200607_03.jpg
  • Portrait of a woman in her 40s seated in her house in Hoi An, an ancient structure built by her forbears in which she continues to live.  She is seated smiling at her desk; a glimpse into the interior courtyard beyond.  Soft golden light washes around her.
    Hoi_An_resident_portrait_VTN200602--...jpg
  • Venice, water traffic on the lagoon from the top of the Campanile in the Piazza San Marco; looking toward customs house at the mouth of the Grand Canal.  Giudecca and the Redentore beyond across the laguna; artificial island of Sacca Sessola in the distance.
    laguna-from-bell-tower-Venezia_ITA20...jpg
  • Potsdam, Sans Souci, Chinese Tea House: gilded statuary with violinist playing.
    GER199310-2-7.tif
  • Gilded figure of a robed musician holding gongs, on the facade of the Japanese Tea House on the grounds of Frederick the Great's palace Sanssouci in Potsdam, Germany.
    Gilded statue SC199310-2-017.jpg
  • Taj Mahal terrace, looking toward the guest house next to the tomb structure.  White marble and red sandstone in contrast.
    Taj_Mahal_terrace_IND200111-3-11.jpg
  • View straight upwards of the radiating ribs of the York Minster Chapter House ceiling.
    Radiating_AT199310-22card5x7.jpg
  • Close up image of one of the gilded sandstone figures playing music on the exterior wall of the Chinese Tea House, Sans Souci, Potsdam.  This figure is a woman holding a lute.  The sculptors' models were European, despite the Chinese costumes.
    Gilded_lutenist_SC199310-2-009card5x...jpg
  • Archaeologist Dr. Roger Martlew setting up a survey at Chapel House Wood, Upper Wharfedale, Yorkshire.  Three quarter view in profile with instrument, moor visible beyond.  Slight lens flare visible over the subject's ear.
    Archaeological_work_AR200607_06.jpg
  • Goldfish pond on the grounds of the Jim Thompson house in Bangkok.  Purple lotus is blooming while a goldfish swims just under the surface of the water.  Seven flad lily pads surround the fish and the lotus in an oval design.
    THA200603_359.jpg
  • Yet another town house residence is the Casa Buonarotti, where the great Michelangelo's descendants maintained a home and a collection not only of his works but of other important artists.  The third floor consists of the residential area, a series of charming small rooms, decorated in 17th and 18th century style.   This charming dome drew my attention as a dome-collector, and the guard was willing to look the other way when I asked to make a picture, as long as I used no flash.  It has a delightful Rococo frivolity balanced with a severe geometric container.
    Dome-interior-18th-century-Florence-...jpg
  • New polished wood door with shiny brass fittings, fitted into the arched entrance of  an old stone and brick house in Florence.  Shiny new apartment buzzer plate on the door jamb, with new drain pipes alongside.
    Florence-streetscape-old-new-ITA2010...jpg
  • Korcula: A few houses with a small church above and the town wall below.  Telephoto view from the sea as the sailboat departs.
    Korcula-Croatia-HRV200606-195.jpg
  • Woman in red shirt and cap concentrates on digging through a rock pile in an excavation site at Chapel House Wood, Wharfedale, Yorkshire.  Moor visible beyond the excavation site.
    Archaeological_work_AR200607_07.jpg
  • Earthwatch volunteer Robert Sherwin, seated with a drawing board on his knee, makes a careful measured drawing of the archaeological site at Chapel House Wood.
    Archaeological_work_AR200607_04.jpg
  • London at sunset: view west along the Thames from the top of the London Eye.  Houses of Parliament and Westminster Bridge in view, along with some of the metal struts of the wheel.
    London_Eye_sunset_ENG200401-02-30.jpg
  • Venice, water traffic on the lagoon from the top of the Campanile in the Piazza San Marco; looking toward customs house at the mouth of the Grand Canal; island of Giudecca beyond..
    laguna-from-bell-tower-Venezia_ITA20...jpg
  • Bronze statue of Hodge, Dr. Samuel Johnson's cat, seated on his Dictionary (with an oyster) looks across Gough Square at Johnson's house.  Statue, by Jon Buckley, 1997.
    Statue of Dr. Johnson's cat Hodge
  • Two pairs, three men and one boy, seated at tiny tea house tables, deep in conversation.  One of the men wears trousers and modern dress, the other two and the boy wear the traditional galabeyya.  All are deep into their talk, intent on their subjects, one obviously speaking and the other listening.
    Two intense conversations
  • Nine, count 'em, nine guitars
    ENG201309--2357.jpg
  • The new top room, looking toward the garden windows.
    ENG201309--2362.jpg
  • Gloriana on a practise run passes Richmond pier.
    Gloriana on a practice run
  • Abstract white formations curving above
    AUS201804--18.tif
  • Abstract white formations curving above
    AUS201804--16.tif
  • Abstract white formations curving above
    AUS201804--2328.tif
  • ENG201605--5084.jpg
  • Curving shapes.
    ENG201309--2358.jpg
  • The new top room with John's recording studio and new chair
    ENG201309--2355.jpg
  • Complutum_ESP201210--4027.jpg
  • Ancient Roman mosaic panel with fish, eels, and three fishermen in a rowboat using a net.
    Complutum_mosaic_ESP2201210--4022.jpg
  • Six boatmen paddle their canoes homeward to their stilt village near the shores of Tonle Sap lake, Cambodia.  They are seen from behind, the tight row of tall homes on the shore beyond.
    KHM200602-195.jpg
  • AUS201804--17.tif
  • ENG201309--2352.jpg
  • Kirsty and Bailey in the garden.
    ENG201309--2349.jpg
  • Six boatmen paddle their canoes homeward to their stilt village near the shores of Tonle Sap lake, Cambodia.  They are seen from behind, the tight row of tall homes on the shore beyond.
    Cambodia_Tonle_Sap_KHM200602-195.jpg
  • Abstract white formations curving above
    AUS201804--2429.tif
  • Bailey in the kitchen.
    ENG201309--2354.jpg
  • Refurbished Ayvalik home with elegantly curved iron bars protecting its windows.
    Ayvalik TUR199710-9.jpg
  • Oman, mud brick village of Al Hamra, largely abandoned.  Though some structures still endure, no restoration seems to be attempted.  Nevertheless at least some of the multistory mud brick apartment buildings are lived in and electrical wiring is strung along the street.  An Omani man in white dishdasha and embroidered traditional cap strides purposefully down the street.
    OMN200801--3699.jpg
  • Selections from Dale Chihuly's 2019 exhibition "Reflections on Nature" ay Kew Gardens. <br />
 For more images see his web site at https://www.chihuly.com/exhibitions/chihuly-at-kew
    Chihuly at Kew-IMG_5552.JPEG
  • Big Ben, sky, clouds, and jet trails on a sunny day
    Big_Ben_jet_trails_ENG200401-2-34.jpg
  • Cairene laundress outside her home; immaculate white galabeyya hanging to dry above her smiling face.
    Smiling laundress
  • Closeup from behind of a woman kneeling on a rock pile to dig for archaeological finds.  Trowel in her gloved left hand, bucket visible on her right, boot soles below, and her nice wide bottom take up most of the image.
    Archaeological_work_AR200607_10.jpg
  • St. Pancras lock, lockhouse from across the Regent's Canal.  London.  Chilly day and nobody is around.  A vegetable garden visible beyond the 19th century lockhouse.
    St-Pancras-lock-Regents-canal-ENG200...jpg
  • Red H'mong village woman in the kitchen of her wooden home.  Walls of vertical slats abut each other but show many openings where they do not meet.  The kitchen fire is an area on the floor, covered with white ash..  North Vietnam.
    Vietnamese_Heritage_VTN200602-206.jpg
  • Oman, mud brick village of Al Hamra, largely abandoned.  Though some structures still endure, and show some basic maintenance, little restoration seems to be attempted. Here a man wearing white dishdasha and red cap strides, arms swinging, down a street under a heavy electrical wire. Bright midday sun casts heavy shadows.
    Omani mud brick village of Al Hamra
  • Seven Bangladeshi boys aged from about 6 years to teens cluster cheerfully in the doorway of their home in a village near Dhaka.
    BGD198201-107.jpg
  • Oman, mud brick village of Al Hamra, largely abandoned.  Though some structures still endure, no restoration seems to be attempted.  Archaeological Tours lecturer Trevor archand speaks to a listening group, while one of the tourists focuses her camera.
    OMN200801--3693.jpg
  • Portrait of Paul & Barb Barnette standing in front of a fireplace warming themselves and smiling broadly.
    Caucasian couple full length -PO2007...jpg
  • Narrow medieval streets of the historical district in Florence offer occasional partial looks at the famous dome of the Duomo, or Cathedral.
    Florence_street_near_Cathedral_ITA20...jpg
  • Mashrabeyya, wooden screens, Bayt el Razzaz, Cairo; interior view of one window showing outline of a traditionally shaped ewer.
    Mashrabeyya_wooden_grill_EGY19194452...jpg
  • Interior rooms of the Bayt el Razzaz, an abandoned Mamluk palace in urban Cairo.  A door stands ajar, showing sunlight streaming into the adjoining room.  In the 1970s, the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) funded explorations, and in 1995 UNESCO funded a status report: http://www.unesco.org/archi2000/pdf/morton.pdf
    Interior of the Bayt el Razzaz, an a..lace
  • Redheaded Earthwatch volunteer Clay Russell trots a wheelbarrow full of stones up a hill.  He wears sunglasses and gloves but his red hair shouts in the sun.
    Archaeological_work_AR200607_05.jpg
  • Harbor for local pleasure boats near Nha Trang, Vietnam.  A recently-developed cluster of holiday homes on the hill across the little harbor.
    Nha_Trang_harbor_VTN200602-037.jpg
  • Scene in the Omani mud brick village of Misfah : traditional homes and apartments still occupied and wired for electricity.  Utility pole festooned with parallel strands of electrical wires, casting shadows on the mud brick walls.  Early afternoon sun casting heavy angular shadows on the mud brick walls.
    Omani Mud brick village of Misfah
  • Scenes in the Omani mud brick village of Misfah : approach tunnel, with painted Omani flag indicating walking route for tourists. Tourist with camera just visible in the shadows.
    Entrance to Misfah village, Oman
  • Muscat, harbor behind Sultan's Palace, view across to Jelali fort, built by the Portuguese in the 16th century and still used by the Omani military.
    Jelali fort, Muscat
  • Bhaktapur main square from the top of the Nayatapola Temple.  Visitors dot the pavement, one beginning to climb the temple stairs. Mountain landscape beyond to the south of the square.  High noon, direct sunlight.
    Bhaktapur-town-square-NPL200110-13-1...jpg
  • Red H'mong village woman in the kitchen of her wooden home.  Walls of vertical slats abut each other but show many openings where they do not meet.  The kitchen fire is an area on the floor, covered with white ash..  North Vietnam.
    Interior-kitchen-H'mong-VTN200602-20...jpg
  • Young woman, an Earthwatch volunteer, makes a measured drawing through a grid laid on a corner of an excavation site.  Yorkshire moor and forest visible beyond.
    Archaeological_work_AR200607_08.jpg
  • Buckingham Palace and Queen Victoria monument seen beyond the lake, St. James's Park, London.  The Queen's flag is not present, indicating that she is not in residence.  The expanse of lake with overhanging trees makes the scene look more romantically rural than it really is.
    Buckingham-Palace_St.James-Park-ENG2...jpg
  • Muscat, view across the harbor at Mattrah across a small boat dock, outboard motor boat  alongside.  Passengers and crew prepare for departure while others look on.  New housing and a cruise ship visible beyond. Bright sunny day, white clouds.
    Mattrah harbor, Muscat
  • Bronze statue of Hodge, Dr. Samuel Johnson's cat, seated on his Dictionary (with an oyster) looks across Gough Square at Johnson's house.  Early evening lamps lit, rain-sodden cobblestones.  Statue, by Jon Buckley, 1997.
    Hodge the cat ENG200401-2-15.jpg
  • Lavenham townscapes and architecture: Little Hall, now a museum, was a house built in the 14th century, enlarged in the 16th century, and eventually housed several families.  Restored in the 1920s by the Gayer-Anderson twin brothers, in 1975 it was given to the Suffolk Preservation Trust.  See history and program at http://www.littlehall.org.uk/littlehall/index.htm.  It is the oldest house in Lavenham.
    Lavenham townscape ENG200701-0031.jpg
  • Oman, in the village of Mirbat.  Facade of a brand new house in traditional design.  Open central doorway, carved wooden doors.  Children looking out of upper window.
    Omani_house_OMN200801--4119.jpg
  • Lavenham townscapes and architecture: distinctive crooked house leans against its neighbor.
    Lavenham townscape ENG200701-0024.jpg
  • Sharp shadow projected on doorway of an old but still occupied house in Ayvalik.  Date on metal tympanum over the door says 1878.  A young woman in jeans opens the door with a key, while two other women walk by.
    Ayvalik TUR199710-4.jpg
  • Sharp shadow partly covers an old but occupied house in Ayvalik, Turkey.  Bicyclist passes doorway with a newish mailbox.
    Ayvalik TUR199710-24.jpg
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