Beauty And The Beast?

Ein altes und restauriertes Gebäude vor moderner Allerweltsarchitektur. Gesehen in der Tübinger Straße in S-Süd.

An old and restored building in front of nondescript architecture. Seen at Tübinger Straße in the South of Stuttgart.

Museum of Islamic Art

A modern spin on Islamic architecture characterizes the exterior of the I.M. Pei-designed Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar. As a form of practice, Zeqiant Wang tries to capture the museum from different angles and in different light, here shooting in the early evening. “I had already been waiting there for two hours when I saw a Qatari man in traditional clothes walk by,” Wang writes. “I got my camera ready fast. The walking posture of the man is perfect and can be called beautiful.”

Les halles vues du dernier étage

Just before Christmas, VDP had a medical appointment here. Well, up from where this photo looking down on Notre-Dame marketplace was taken! You can see two of the four covered market buildings, the two others are out of sight on the right.

Juste avant Noël, VDP s'est rendue à un rendez-vous médical ici. Enfin, là d'où la photo a été prise ! Voici donc deux des carrés du marché couvert Notre-Dame, les deux autres étaient hors de portée de l'objectif, sur la droite.

Peaceful Rest, Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia

This white horse enjoys a peaceful rest on a sunny day.

Over the Bay

Shooting at Hog Island Bay on the eastern shore of Virginia, Gordon Campbell is inspired by the natural textures, patterns, and colors of the area’s salt marshes, as well as what he calls the seemingly random nature of the "veins" running through them. The scenery, he writes, is in a state of constant change, depending in part on the tides, the season, and the time of day.

Campbell photographs while flying an open cockpit aircraft. “I’m always looking for the unique combinations of pattern and light,” he writes. “When I find an interesting area, I can change angles relative to the sun and fly higher or lower, sometimes just feet above the marsh grasses. The tidal wetlands shown here play a very important part in the ecosystem and are home to a large variety of wetland flora.”