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  • Siding detail of a derelict wooden barn in rural Virginia.  Its planks make rough horizontal parallels.  Unused, it still stands like an old old man.
    Rough_wood_parallel_PT2002-05-23.jpg
  • Detail side view of the tiny St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Solomon's Island, MD built 1889.  Narrow pointed arch window, narrow door (closed), section of picket fence, and wooden shingled roof.  Geometric sense of parallels and angles.
    Geometric_graphic_composition_USA.MD...jpg
  • Italy, Magna Graecia : Paestum temples : temple to Hera II, Neptune, or Hera & Zeus (disputed attribution of dedication). Detail of five columns from bottom to top with curved shadows of the next column capital showing near the top of each.  Parallelism and togetherness; repetition.
    Paestum_Greek_temples_ITA200610-099.jpg
  • Sicily : Theater at Segesta, 3d century BC. Shadow patterns on the seats and stairs, making an abstract semicircular design.
    Greek_theater_Segesta_ITA200610-197.jpg
  • Sicily : Theater at Segesta, 3d century BC. Shadow patterns on the seats and stairs.
    ITA200610-197pr10x15.jpg
  • Italy, Magna Graecia : Paestum temples : partial view of two adjoining temples, side by side, so that all their columns seem to cluster together.  A group of tourists partly visible below one of the temple platforms.
    Paestum_Greek_temples_ITA200610-097.jpg
  • Italy, Magna Graecia : Paestum temples : temple to Hera II, Neptune, or Hera & Zeus (disputed attribution of dedication)
    ITA200610-098.jpg
  • San Clemente, marble mosaic floor by the four brothers, known as the Cosmati from their father Cosmatus, between 1190 and 1235.  The floor is seen from a low angle to show extent and complexity of the geometric pattern.  Hexagons, triangles, circles, rectangles, squares, are set in a systematic close fitting design which I thought quite beautiful.
    Multicolored-hexagons-marble-mosaic-...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
  • Sicily : ancient Greek Theater at Segesta, 3d century BC. Shadow patterns on the stone seats and stairs have been saturated somewhat to bring out the cyans and reds in the stone.  The graphic composition is a pattern of parallel curves.  The theater is still used for performances .
    ITA200610-197.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
  • Kettlewell, Upper Wharfedale : wooden barn door with rusted latch and keyhole plate.  Thick peeling paint adds texture.  Beige, orange, and blue colors predominate sue to deliberate saturation of naturally occurring hues.
    Old-wooden-barn-door-ENG200607_072.jpg
  • Santa Pudenziana, nave; Cosmati floor; detail of the geometric design of lozenges, stripes, polygons, in cream, grey, red, and blue marble.
    Santa-Pudenziana-Cosmati-marble-floo...jpg
  • Interior corridor of the hemicycle in Trajan's Markets, Rome.  Sunlight streams through arched openings on the right to fall on shop entrances on the left.
    Trajans-market-Rome_ITA200901--0486.jpg
  • Colosseum; outer corridor with external pillars, heavily pockmarked.
    Colosseum_Rome_ITA200901--0343.jpg
  • Kettlewell, Upper Wharfedale : wooden barn door with rusted latch and peeling paint making a texture
    old_wood_barn_door_ENG200607_072.jpg
  • View along a colonnade of the Patio de los Leones, in the Alhambra.
    Patio de los Leones ESP201210--0268.jpg
  • Composite of night time  moving automobile lights across the James River at Jamestown, VA, overlaid with captures with moving camera.
    Nocturne at Jamestown USA.VA200711-3...tif
  • Portal, Lincoln Cathedral, England, showing detail of pilasters on the left hand side of the entrance.
    Lincoln_cathedral_portal_detail_SC20...jpg
  • Cliff formations in the vast Wadi Haynun, near the UNESCO "Land of Frankincense" preservation area, Dhofar, Oman.  Multiple horizontal striations in blues, yellows, and white, interspersed with white and beige sand.  Pale blue sky above.
    Wadi_Haynun_Dhofar_OMN200801--4061pr...jpg
  • The audience section of the ancient theatre at Segesta, Sicily.  Bands of sunlit and shadowed stone make a design of curved parallels.
    Birthday card ITA200610-197.jpg
  • View from the top of the Vittoriale across the roofs of the church, and facades of the Senatorio and Capitoline Museum.  Graphic composition of angles and parallels.
    Capitoline-roofs-Rome_ITA200901--087...jpg
  • Muscat, Grand Mosque of Sultan Qaboos, view down an arcade that borders the courtyard of the mosque.  Sunlight streaming between the pillars, casting parallel shadows.  Carved woodehn [teak] ceiling, pointed arch at entrance.
    arcade at Sultan Qaboos mosque
  • Detail, head of St. James, from the statue on the portal, right side.  Hair schematized in narrow incised parallel ridges; stern facial expression.
    Sibenik_Croatia_HRV200606-009.jpg
  • Detail, head of St. James, from the statue on the portal, right side.  Hair schematized in narrow parallel ridges; stern facial expression.
    St. James Sibenik HRV200606-009.jpg
  • Pharaonic relief of three long legged birds (ibis?) walking together in a row.  Legs, heads, and necks, all in parallel.  Red granite stone.
    Ibis walking SC197811-18.jpg
  • Curving section of the audience at the ancient theater at Taormina, Sicily, Italy.  Bands of grass and stone make a design of parallel curves.
    Birthday card ITA200610-054.jpg
  • Egyptian official at Luxor, seated at his desk in his office by the entrance to the site, writes carefully in his logbook.  Wears a blue galabeyya, white turban, and purple overscarf.  Parallel shadows from the barred entrance gate cast curved bars of light on the irregular stone wall behind him.
    EGY197811-36 copy copy.jpg
  • Angkor Wat: view along a corridor  of one of its galleries.Parallel linear pattern of sunlight and shadow projected through balustraded window opening.  Successive doorways recede into the distance.
    Angkor_Wat_interior_KHM200602-071.jpg
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