In the pursuit my travels I have been afforded the opportunity to see some truly spectacular architectural accomplishments. I'm always drawn to intreguing, intricately built structures, most of them religious in nature. One thing I have noticed is that the architecture that I find the most interesting is always old. In this sense, I mean 'not modern.' I wonder if that's just because everything in the U.S. is relatively new when compared with much of the rest of the worlds buildings...In the above photo we see the beautifully ornate Ortakoy camii (mosque) in Istanbul, Turkey. My friend Tyler graciously hosted me at his apartment for the week, and one of our first stops was this mosque just after sunset on the banks of the Bosphorus Straight.
Below are a few of my more memorable photos of architecture I have come across.
Hallway in Topkapi Palace, Istanbul, Turkey
Building Detail just before dusk, Istanbul, Turkey
Entrance gate detail to the Royal Palace, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Detail of ornate stupa flowers at Wat Pho in the town of Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand.
Faces carved out of stone at the Bayon Temple a part of the mega-temple complex of Angkor Wat, Cambodia
Large Buddhist Stupa in a Tibetan neighborhood of Kathmandu, Nepal. These sites of religious worship are kept immaculately clean, to the point where even the white dome is re painted on a monthly basis if need be. I inadvertently captured a pigeon in flight on the left side of the frame.
Recently, Liz and I traveled to the Great Sand Dunes National Park. As we walked around the nearly 30 square miles of dunes, we noticed the trails of animals and other impressions that were created in the sand. Often times the impressions would only last a few hours before the wind swept them completely away. Here is a small compilation of what we saw.
Our footprints on a Dune
Mouse Tracks
Grass tracks from the wind.
Shadowed footsteps on a dune.
In the pursuit my travels I have been afforded the opportunity to see some truly spectacular architectural accomplishments. I'm always drawn to intreguing, intricately built structures, most of them religious in nature. One thing I have noticed is that the architecture that I find the most interesting is always old. In this sense, I mean 'not modern.' I wonder if that's just because everything in the U.S. is relatively new when compared with much of the rest of the worlds buildings...In the above photo we see the beautifully ornate Ortakoy camii (mosque) in Istanbul, Turkey. My friend Tyler graciously hosted me at his apartment for the week, and one of our first stops was this mosque just after sunset on the banks of the Bosphorus Straight.
Hallway in Topkapi Palace, Istanbul, Turkey
Building Detail just before dusk, Istanbul, Turkey
Entrance gate detail to the Royal Palace, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Detail of ornate stupa flowers at Wat Pho in the town of Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand.
Faces carved out of stone at the Bayon Temple a part of the mega-temple complex of Angkor Wat, Cambodia
Large Buddhist Stupa in a Tibetan neighborhood of Kathmandu, Nepal. These sites of religious worship are kept immaculately clean, to the point where even the white dome is re painted on a monthly basis if need be. I inadvertently captured a pigeon in flight on the left side of the frame.
