Square Perspectives: Fungi

My contribution for Day 4 of Becky’s Square Perspectives is 3 perspectives of fungi growing on a tree.

Perspectives Great & Small

Sometimes a photograph cannot convey the bigness or smallness of something unless it is given perspective by including another object whose dimensions we are familiar with. For example, I can post photos of the immense pillars of Karnak in Egypt, built 3,500 years ago, but you can really get an idea of how massive they […]

July Square Perspective: A Swan Story

Becky is back with her July photo challenge! This month the theme is perspective. Becky reviews the definitions of perspective to help get started: Art – the method by which solid objects drawn or painted on a flat surface are given the appearance of depth and distance. Geometry – the way that objects appear smaller when they […]

Farewell April Squares: To Top It Off…

Today is the last day of Becky’s April Squares! To top it off, I show you my favorite dessert: Schaum torte! If you don’t know this delectable delicacy, it consists of a meringue at the bottom. The meringue should be prepared with a depression in the middle to put a scoop of ice cream. Then […]

April Squares 29: Iowa State Capitol

The Iowa state capitol in Des Moines is atop a hill and offers a panoramic view of the city’s downtown. The exterior is entirely of stone with elaborate columns, cornices and capitals. Looking up inside toward the top of the dome Posted for Becky’s April Squares with the topic TOP. The Iowa state capitol building […]

April Squares 28: Museum of Glass

The Museum of Glass in Tacoma has an interesting, modernist design. It was designed by Canadian architect Arthur Erickson, his first art museum. He started working on the building in 2000 and in 2001 the building was completed. At the top of the building, shaped like an angled cone, is the hot shop, where visitors […]

April Squares 27: Mountain Tops

There’s snow on the mountain tops in June, at Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado – such gorgeous scenery! Becky’s Square Tops

April Squares 26: Hippos

The countdown continues for wrapping up Becky’s April Squares with the subject top. When hippos are submerged in the water, which is much of the day, only the tops of their heads and noses stick out of the water – they have to breathe, after all! Sometimes, though, you just see the top of their […]

April Squares 25: Top of a Building

Becky’s April Squares is now on Day 25 and the theme is top. I took this shot of Chicago – skyline can be seen in the distance – from the balcony on the top floor of Dank Haus, a German Cultural Center, during Open House Chicago last October.

Square Tops: My Closet

Welcome to my closet! All of our closets are overflowing with clothes. We culled a lot before moving, but even so, there just are too many clothes for the space – of course, we also buy new clothes… For Becky’s April Squares challenge with the theme of top, I am posting photos of most of […]