Naked Torso arrives at Selfridges
-Look Up, Look Down Challenge, Week 59 Every Thursday, I publish a post containing photo(s) taken from above or below, and invite you to join in the challenge by posting your own […]
The Knight Adventurer Reaches Brussels
Don Quixote and Sancho Panza stroll cheerfully through the Place d’Espagne in Brussels. In the late afternoon sun their so-easily identifiable silhouette reminded me of Picasso’s famous black and white drawing of […]
Disastrous Nose Job
This poor old relic of a Moor is suffering a nasal deficiency. If this guy had been looking for nose perfection these days, he would have know that the ideal nose […]
Great Scott! Dr Livingstone, I Presume.
–Six Word Saturday This statue of Livingstone features him holding out a Bible, with a pistol and compass at his waist and a cast off lion skin representing him having survived a mauling. […]
One Man, Three Heads
Jan Toorop (1858-1928) was a Dutch-Indonesian artist, who lived much of his life in Den Haag. He is perhaps best known as a symbolist, where his individual style seemed to […]
Rembrandt and his Night Watch
The Netherlands’ famous painter, Rembrandt van Rijn, is commemorated by a large statue in Rembrandtplein (Rembrandt Square), not a million miles from where he lived between 1639 and 1656. It stands high on a plinth with a […]
Clean Sweep
This guy is so fastidious, he even clears up shadows. Linked to Shadow Shot Sunday, Travel Theme: Clean and Photo Friday: Shadows.
N is for… Nelson Mandela
Larger than life, this statue of Nelson Mandela strides towards the Peace Palace in Den Haag. Arie Schippers has captured the great man’s massive personality in this more than twice life size sculpture […]
Artists on the Seafront
These two distinguished looking fellows, are two beloved Catalan artists and one-time Sitges residents from the modernist period. Santiago Rusiñol i Prats (1861 – 1931) was a Barcelona-born painter, poet, collector, cultural […]
Churchill’s View
“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.” Winston Churchill Linked to Cee’s Black &White Challenge: Back of Things.
Look Up, Look Up, Whatever You Do
-Look Up, Look Down Challenge, Week 13 Every Thursday, I publish a post containing photos taken from above or below, and invite you to join the challenge by posting your own photos with an up […]
Travel with Intent 