Thought for Today

Maslow wrote about the hierarchy of human needs. He said:

"A musician must make music
an artist must paint
a poet must write…
if he is to be ultimately at
peace with himself

What a man can be, he must be"

So why am I sitting in this office when I could be photographing the world?

Graffiti Watch




Maryhill Rd, Glasgow

The Alhambra

Marvin Trachtenberg and Isabelle Hyman describe the Alhambra thus: "On a hill overlooking Granada, the Alhambra—a sprawling palace-citadel that comprised royal residential quarters, court complexes flanked by official chambers, a bath, and a mosque—was begun in the thirteenth century by Ibn al-Ahmar, founder of the Nasrid dynasty, and was continued by his successors in the fourteenth century. Its most celebrated portions—a series of courtyards surrounded by rooms—present a varied repetoire of Moorish arched, columnar, and domical forms. The romantic imagination of centuries of visitors has been captivated by the special combination of the slender columnar arcades, fountains, and light-reflecting water basins found in those courtyards—the Lion Court in particular; this combination is understood from inscriptions to be a physical realization of descriptions of Paradise in Islamic poetry."

—Architecture: from Prehistory to Post-Modernism. p219.

Travelling around Andalucia



Ronda




Estepona




Tarifa .. with Africa on the horizon




Granada

Winter Break to Spain

Poolside pictures...