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  • Italy, Magna Graecia : Paestum temples : temple to Hera, the earliest of the three temples at Paestum, seen from an angle that shows its siting in relation to the distant mountain.
    Paestum_Greek_temples_ITA200610-093.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
  • Facade of the Jim Thompson house in Bangkok, vertical orientation.
    Jim_Thompson_house_THA200603_337.jpg
  • Italy, Magna Graecia : Paestum temples : Doric temple of Athena or Ceres showing its orientation toward the sacred mountain above the site.  The perfect parallelism of the flanking colonnade visually locks with the landscape beyond.  For more about this theory, see Vincent Scully's "The Earth, the temple, and the gods."
    Paestum_temple_landscape_ITA200610-0...jpg
  • Angkor, Ta Prohm temple building clasped in vast tangles of thitpok (Tetrameles nudiflora) tree roots. Some call this tree a strangler fig (ficus gibbosa), a different species.  Vertical orientation showing tree all the way to its top.
    Angkor_temple_Ta_Prohm_KHM200602-151.jpg
  • Antique brass menorah set against an oriental carpet
    Hanukkah menorah.jpg
  • Detail of the carved plaster and mirror wall decoration of the "Glass Palace" in the Amber Fort, Jodhpur.  The 16th century design is abstract, vertically oriented.
    Birthday card_PT200110-1.jpg
  • Asian and European tourists in front of a pagoda in Vietnam;.   The Asians are grouped for a photograph while the Europeans wander individually around the area.  An example of comparative social behavior of Orientals and Caucasians.
    Tourists_Vietnam_VTN200602--0490.jpg
  • Detail of the carved plaster and mirror wall decoration of the "Glass Palace" in the Amber Fort, Jodhpur.  The 16th century design is abstract, vertically oriented.
    Holiday_sparkle_PT200110-1card5x7.jpg
  • Lecturer and guide Dr. Trevor Marchand, of London's School of Oriental and African Studies, [ SOAS ] explaining the history and architecture of the mud brick village of Al Hamra, Oman, to a group of tourists.   Most listen attentively; one woman focuses her camera elsewhere.  Ruined mud brick home at left, repaired mud brick multi story building in the background.
    tourists-Omani-village-OMN200801--36...jpg
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