Covent Garden in London is known for the Royal Opera House, for its cafes, restaurants, craft shops, and for the street entertainers who perform in the Square. Opposite the shops, on the other side of the Square is a neo-classical building with four stone pillars supporting an overhanging pediment, and a large door. Despite being … Read more
Heading north, Berwick Upon Tweed is the last English town before the border with Scotland. The town is just three miles from the Scottish border and a few hundred yards from the North Sea. On its seaward side there are these high earth ramparts built in the late 1500s, during the reigns of Mary I … Read more
This is a follow-up to this article on photographing London in which I mentioned the Gherkin building in the financial district in London. I walked around the area, looking for a viewpoint from which I could show the way that the building curves inwards at the bottom. In other words, it really is a gherkin … Read more