An oddball selection of outside art pieces I’ve noticed in the last two months on my photo walks in Vancouver… In a small Coal Harbour park someone added fresh flowers to this bronze statue of an old woman sitting on … Continue reading August & September 2021: Public Art in Vancouver
I love colour so much that I rarely photograph anything in black and white. And Mexico is one of those colourful countries where black and white isn’t an option. Except when I saw this stone eagle at the Monument of … Continue reading When Black & White Is Better than Colour (Mexico)
Who doesn’t love arrays of circles arranged in a polka dot pattern. This is the original polka dot sculpture in Bilbao, Spain, cheerful but slightly grimy.This is the sculpture brightened up in the photo app Photoshop Express. This is the … Continue reading Circles A-Go-Go, a Polka Dot Abstract
A collection of fish art from around the world. A shop decorated with metal fish of all sorts in the harbour of Carnlough, a small town on the Coastal Causeway Route of Ireland, UK. Photo exhibit in Siem Reap has … Continue reading Fish Art from Around the World
It’s hard to photograph the night if you happen to forget your tripod which I did last time I went to Puerto Vallarta. Really this post should be called ‘Gimme the tripod’. Shooting in the dark without a tripod often … Continue reading Cosmic Challenge: Gimme the Night (Puerto Vallarta After Dark)
Some Illuminate Yaletown ice sculptures, a fun winter event that was eliminated after Vancouver had the Olympics. There was a lot of complaining about cold hands after this photo was taken! More of Nancy Merrill’s Photo a Week Challenge: Ice, … Continue reading Ice Sculptures at Vancouver’s Illuminate Yaletown Event
A free-styling attempt to capture the ‘Super Moon’ along with Alejandro Colunga’s surreal sculptures in Puerto Vallarta. My first shot of the Alejandro Colunga set of ‘magic-realism’ sculptures in the Puerto Vallarta night was a little out of focus (I forgot my … Continue reading Cosmic Challenge: Freestyle Surrealistic Super Moon
Some sunny sunflowers for the month of August. In Spanish sunflowers are called ‘girosoles’, meaning ‘turn (with) sun’. This steel sunflower sculpture in Buenos Aires is supposed to open, close and turn with the sun – the mechanics are off so … Continue reading Sunflower, August’s Plant of the Month
The staircase in the converted monastery at Parador de Santo Estevo leads up to a wonderful art ‘exposición permanente’. The work of Florencio de Arboiro explores a Spain of the past through intriguing sculptures of wood and cast bronze. The … Continue reading The Art Show at Parador de Santo Estevo in Spain
Symmetry is often used in art and design… An artwork in a Bangkok office building. A Hindu temple in Bangkok. A sculpture in Bangkok’s Lumpini Park. More of the Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenge: Symmetry Continue reading Weekly Photo Challenge: Symmetry
Batz Gallery 