Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #324: In The Details

This week's topic is right up my alley. To start with, my favorite styles of architecture are Art Nouveau and Art Deco, both from the early to mid-20th Century. Both styles involve decorated buildings, with all sorts of frilly details, very unlike more-modern buildings which have no decoration at all (and are quite boring to …

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #251: Beauty in the Buildings

I have always been fascinated by architecture, as a demonstration of man's capacity to create structures of beauty.  Cultures all over the world erect buildings that reflect their varying cultural traditions.  Aside from cultural traditions, architectural details show the artistic period when the building was built.  One day, I took my camera and went to …

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CFFC: Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: City Structures

I've traveled to cities large and small, old and new, in my 73 years.  In all of my travels, my very favorite city is an old one, a college town in England that has been settled for around 2,000 years.  I first went there in 1984 with my first husband.  We liked it so much, …

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #173: Interesting Architecture

I am sort of an architecture buff.  I love taking pictures of unusual buildings, especially those from the Art Nouveau or Art Deco periods of the 20th Century.  But I keep my eyes open wherever I am, and that has enabled me to photograph a number of interesting buildings. This is the modern A T …

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #141: Geometry

Nature designed the world geometrically.  We just build on that natural geometry.  However, Nature doesn't use very many absolutely straight lines, so one way to spot a man-made structure is to check for straight lines.  Just a few weeks ago, on one of our day trips up to the Skagit Valley, I happened upon a …

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Ruffles and Flourishes-Architectural Detail in Downtown Seattle

This week's Photo Challenge topic of Detail was perfect!  I had been planning to do a post on this topic for a while, and everything came together nicely.  This one also goes with last week's Look Up theme.  So I packed up my camera and notebook, got in my car, and drove the 20 miles …

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