Saint-Sulpice
Our hotel in Paris is around the corner from Saint-Sulpice, a church made famous in the otherwise pretty silly book, The Da Vinci Code. The soaring interior spaces of this edifice…
Chemin de Halage
Under the cliffs beside the Lot River, and below the picturesque medieval village of Saint-Cirq-Lapopie, the Chemin de Halage makes for spectacular walking, and is part of one of the…
Blast from the Past: Between Earth and Sky
Originally published September 22, 2008 Between Earth and Sky, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. On our way home from a sunset-to-night hike on the Tomales Point fork…
Flickr and me, and stock photography: Adventures in photo licensing in the Internet Era
I have been a Flickr member for almost a decade (since 2005). According to Flickr’s dashboard, there have been more than 5,000,000 views of the 4,500+ images that I have…
Waterdrops via Otus 85
I shot this image with my new Zeiss Otus 85mm f/1.4 lens during a break in the rainy weather. To get closer to the waterdrops, I added a 36mm extension…
Chartres
Looking up at Chartres is a memorable experience! What a vast amount of effort, creativity, engineering and spirituality over what a long period of time went into building this structure.…
Saint-Sulpice
Work on the Eglise Saint-Sulpice began in 1646, and has never been finished. The second largest church in Paris (after Notre Dame), Saint-Sulpice is on the border of the 5th…
Opera Garnier
The Opera Garnier in Paris is baroque and magnificent. It's mostly not used for opera any more as they've built a modern opera house (I've heard, however, from several people…