PhotoReflect

click photo to enlarge In the main the builders of Britain's medieval parish churches used local stone. Sometimes this was very well ...

click photo to enlarge All Renaissance architecture draws its inspiration from the buildings of ancient Greece and Rome. English Renaissa...

click photo to enlarge After thirty odd years of shooting 35mm film with an aspect ratio of 3:2 I shot with Four Thirds cameras for a few...

click photo to enlarge Sunshades are something that we usually associate with summer. When the sun is beating down from on high, hot and ...

click photo to enlarge I've often thought that the designers of the temples of classical antiquity would be horrified by the uses to w...

click photo to enlarge In the UK finding new uses for old industrial or commercial buildings often results in them being converted into liv...

click photo to enlarge It is said that examples of rusticated walls - where the joints between stone blocks are cut back and emphasised ...

click photo to enlarge Multi-use buildings constructed in the eighteenth century are quite common if we include those that feature living...

click photo to enlarge Commercial buildings of today have virtually banished the window as a discrete architectural feature. Glass curtai...

click photo to enlarge Anyone with an interest in English church architecture will be familiar with the main gazetteers and guides that d...

click photo to enlarge I first encountered the word "volute" when studying architectural history, in particular the Greek Ionic...

click photo to enlarge It is said that the genesis of the Slow Movement was the journalist, Carlo Petrini's protest against the open...

click photo to enlarge I enjoy visiting the large, national and regional museums of Britain. Places such as the Natural History Museum, t...

click photo to enlarge I've said elsewhere in this blog that I like to use shadows in photographs. It seems to me that they add a dim...

click photo to enlarge One of the common house names in England is "The Old Vicarage". This can be seen on buildings of various...

click photo to enlarge On a recent dull and very windy day I spent a few hours in and around Hull's "old town", the origina...

click photo to enlarge Anyone with an interest in the history of English church architecture, visiting St James at Deeping St James in L...

click photo to enlarge Today's photographs show the quite "industrial" looking Wilson Street in Newark, Nottinghamshire. I...

click photo to enlarge The most common type of building to find next to an English church is, not surprisingly, the vicarage. A place of...

click photo to enlarge Strolling through King's Lynn in Norfolk a short while ago I came upon the scene above after walking almost t...