PhotoReflect

click photo to enlarge In a recent post I remarked how architects who build sharp, angular buildings frequently seek the soft, wayward, n...

click photo to enlarge The Breedon Angel is one of a number of fascinating pieces of Saxon sculpture to be seen in the church of St Mary...

click photo to enlarge I have no time for the social structure that produced heraldry or for heraldry as a social tool; it seems to me to...

click photo to enlarge In 1851 the Great Exhibition was held in Hyde Park, London. When it closed the newly built exhibition building, a...

click photo to enlarge Thomas Thornycroft (1815-1885) and Mary Thornycroft (neé Francis) (1814-1895), were husband and wife sculptors. ...

click photo to enlarge Glass has many qualities that fascinate me: its ability to reflect, to distort, to transmit light through its stru...

click photo to enlarge Avian vantage points vary from species to species. In my garden the jackdaws tend to stay high, favouring chimne...

click photo to enlarge "All right... all right... but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigati...

click photo to enlarge The other day, as I looked at the rusty metal discs on the harrow shown in today's photograph, out of nowhere ...

click photo to enlarge The other day, in connection with the Anglo-Saxon (Romanesque) church at Barton upon Humber, Lincolnshire, I was ...

click photo to enlarge Our great churches offer much to delight the eye and mind, more than can be taken in during a single visit, and o...

click photo to enlarge I get regular requests from companies asking if they can use one or more of my photographs. In the main they are ...

click photos to enlarge "Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge that busies himself in tracing the original and...

click photos to enlarge It's fairly common for photographers to be told that they can't use their cameras in certain locations. ...

click photo to enlarge I don't like shopping. Lots of men (and quite a few women) don't. Food and essentials I can cope with: it...

click photo to enlarge I can't imagine that Charles Dodgson (1832-1898), a mathematics lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford, had an inklin...

click photo to enlarge I recently attended a talk on "remembrance" that included the subject of war memorials. These tributes to ...

click photo to enlarge I see a lot of tomb effigies on my visits to England's churches. The earliest are coffin-shaped slabs dating from...

click photos to enlarge I'm a fan of public sculpture. In fact, I am so in favour of it that I'd rather see mediocre public sculptur...

click photos to enlarge The passing traveller, coming upon the Trinity Bridge in Crowland, Lincolnshire, might wonder at the purpose of this...