Posts Tagged: Culture

Liguria Italy

Memories of a holiday. We didn’t manage to travel on holiday this year, so these were created from photos of our visit a few years back to the beautiful Sestri Levante, in Liguria, Italy.

Liguria Italy

Memories of a holiday. We didn’t manage to travel on holiday this year, so these were created from photos of our visit a few years back to the beautiful Sestri Levante, in Liguria, Italy.

Bella Bologna

They say that all roads lead to Rome, but for me it’s Bologna. The most beautiful and livable city in Italy…

Bella Bologna

They say that all roads lead to Rome, but for me it’s Bologna. The most beautiful and livable city in Italy…

Kirstinelyst Randbøl

A picturesque area of heath, just outside Billund, Denmark.

Kirstinelyst Randbøl

A picturesque area of heath, just outside Billund, Denmark.

Google Street View – Glamorous Red Head -Covent Garden

Shelton Street – Covent Garden London Stylish shopper type lady with flaming red hair swishes down Shelton Street in Covent Garden

Google Street View – Glamorous Red Head -Covent Garden

Shelton Street – Covent Garden London Stylish shopper type lady with flaming red hair swishes down Shelton Street in Covent Garden

Google Street View – Bohemia, Czech Republic

Bela pod, Bezdezem, Central Bohemia I love these two old ladies caught gossiping in their slippers, somewhere in the countryside of Bohemia.

Google Street View – Bohemia, Czech Republic

Bela pod, Bezdezem, Central Bohemia I love these two old ladies caught gossiping in their slippers, somewhere in the countryside of Bohemia.

Google Street View – Moravske Budejovice, Czech Republic

Nam Miru, Moravske Budejovice, Czech Republic I’ve never been to the Czech Republic which is probably a good job as their names are are unpronounceable to me. Just looking at the place, especially architecturally, this could very well be Frankonia,

Google Street View – Moravske Budejovice, Czech Republic

Nam Miru, Moravske Budejovice, Czech Republic I’ve never been to the Czech Republic which is probably a good job as their names are are unpronounceable to me. Just looking at the place, especially architecturally, this could very well be Frankonia,

Google Street View – Tribeca, New York

FDNY – Ladder 8 – 14 N Moore Street, NYC Prizes for anyone who can tell me which well known ‘spooky’ film this New York Fire Department building has featured in? If you don’t get it it will surely haunt

Google Street View – Tribeca, New York

FDNY – Ladder 8 – 14 N Moore Street, NYC Prizes for anyone who can tell me which well known ‘spooky’ film this New York Fire Department building has featured in? If you don’t get it it will surely haunt

Google Street View – Is that you? Tribeca, New York

Varick Street, Tribeca, New York Characters on the streets of New York, in and around Tribeca, which is in downtown Manhattan. I like to wonder what is going through the minds of all these people, the moment they were photographed

Google Street View – Is that you? Tribeca, New York

Varick Street, Tribeca, New York Characters on the streets of New York, in and around Tribeca, which is in downtown Manhattan. I like to wonder what is going through the minds of all these people, the moment they were photographed

Google Street View – NYFD Engine Company 44

– New York Fire Dept. – Engine Company 44 For me the most iconic of architectural landmarks in New York are the New York Fire Departments buildings. This is the building of Engine Company 44 which sits at 221 E

Google Street View – NYFD Engine Company 44

– New York Fire Dept. – Engine Company 44 For me the most iconic of architectural landmarks in New York are the New York Fire Departments buildings. This is the building of Engine Company 44 which sits at 221 E

Google Street View – Manhattan, New York

Narrowest buildings in New York City – 134 E 62nd Street Same time, same place as the last post, I found this jaunty old Lady in her acid yellow top and navy slacks, on 134 E 62nd Street, New York.

Google Street View – Manhattan, New York

Narrowest buildings in New York City – 134 E 62nd Street Same time, same place as the last post, I found this jaunty old Lady in her acid yellow top and navy slacks, on 134 E 62nd Street, New York.

Google Street View – Manhattan, New York

Narrowest buildings in New York City – 134 E 62nd Street I love the architecture in New York, especially the Dutch influenced, narrow, old brick townhouses. This one on 134 E 62nd Street was built in 1910 and is 12.6

Google Street View – Manhattan, New York

Narrowest buildings in New York City – 134 E 62nd Street I love the architecture in New York, especially the Dutch influenced, narrow, old brick townhouses. This one on 134 E 62nd Street was built in 1910 and is 12.6

Google Street View – Mineral Point, Wisconsin, USA

Travelling without moving – Pendarvis, Mineral Point, Wisconsin, USA Love the clapperboad style architecture of some traditional houses in the U.S. They have an elegant utilitarian aspect to them which I really like.

Google Street View – Mineral Point, Wisconsin, USA

Travelling without moving – Pendarvis, Mineral Point, Wisconsin, USA Love the clapperboad style architecture of some traditional houses in the U.S. They have an elegant utilitarian aspect to them which I really like.

Google Street View – Mineral Point, Wisconsin, USA

A Cornish town in the USA In the 1830’s many of the mines in Cornwall, England closed, following this many of the local Cornish miners emigrated to the USA, some finding themselves in the area of Wisconsin. They began mining

Google Street View – Mineral Point, Wisconsin, USA

A Cornish town in the USA In the 1830’s many of the mines in Cornwall, England closed, following this many of the local Cornish miners emigrated to the USA, some finding themselves in the area of Wisconsin. They began mining

Google Street View – Newquay, Cornwall

I love the chaotic jumble of signs, colors and typography. Advertising fishing trips on the sea front in Newquay, Cornwall. Newquay, a traditionally a fishing town, on the Atlantic coast of South West England, is now just as famous for

Google Street View – Newquay, Cornwall

I love the chaotic jumble of signs, colors and typography. Advertising fishing trips on the sea front in Newquay, Cornwall. Newquay, a traditionally a fishing town, on the Atlantic coast of South West England, is now just as famous for

Google Street View – Fishing Cobbles, Staithes, North Yorkshire

Fishing cobles- Robby Beck, Staithes Legend has it that the fishing boats in this area of the North East of England are based on the same template as Viking Longships. The Clinker built construction of these boats means they are

Google Street View – Fishing Cobbles, Staithes, North Yorkshire

Fishing cobles- Robby Beck, Staithes Legend has it that the fishing boats in this area of the North East of England are based on the same template as Viking Longships. The Clinker built construction of these boats means they are

Google Street View – Staithes, North Yorkshire

The Red house, Staithes. The houses in this traditional fisherman’s village in North Yorkshire have names instead of house numbers, much to the annoyance of postmen. This beautiful old building is called the Red House, for obvious reasons.

Google Street View – Staithes, North Yorkshire

The Red house, Staithes. The houses in this traditional fisherman’s village in North Yorkshire have names instead of house numbers, much to the annoyance of postmen. This beautiful old building is called the Red House, for obvious reasons.

Urban sketching – Vestergade, Aarhus

Sketching the building opposite, while drinking in my favorite Coffee House in Aarhus yesterday, Streetcafe, on Vestergade. Often the best moments are made up of the simplest of pleasures, nice music courtesy of The National, a good coffee and a

Urban sketching – Vestergade, Aarhus

Sketching the building opposite, while drinking in my favorite Coffee House in Aarhus yesterday, Streetcafe, on Vestergade. Often the best moments are made up of the simplest of pleasures, nice music courtesy of The National, a good coffee and a

Travelling without moving Genoa, Italy

More from Genoa… otherwise known as the “Proud One.” It was a group of Genoese emigrant boys to Buenos Aries in the late 19th Century that then formed a football club in an area called La Boca. Know known as

Travelling without moving Genoa, Italy

More from Genoa… otherwise known as the “Proud One.” It was a group of Genoese emigrant boys to Buenos Aries in the late 19th Century that then formed a football club in an area called La Boca. Know known as

Neanderthal Picasso

An illustration I created for a piece entitled ‘Your more creative than you realise’ for Trendillustrated.com, which I really like. The article is based on the news of the recent discovery of cave paintings in Indonesia, which are the oldest

Neanderthal Picasso

An illustration I created for a piece entitled ‘Your more creative than you realise’ for Trendillustrated.com, which I really like. The article is based on the news of the recent discovery of cave paintings in Indonesia, which are the oldest

Lake Lugano – Oskar Koller

It’s been warm enough to get my paint brush outside in the open air where at first I struggled to remember what to do with it. I’ve been looking at the work of Oskar Koller again. His work is deceptively

Lake Lugano – Oskar Koller

It’s been warm enough to get my paint brush outside in the open air where at first I struggled to remember what to do with it. I’ve been looking at the work of Oskar Koller again. His work is deceptively