This week’s theme over in F-Stop is Stairs: Stairs take us up, they take us down. Sometimes they take us to bed, sometimes to work, sometimes between two points on a map. We climb them, descend them, stand on them. We look at them as both an effort to climb and a shortcut. They are [...]
Photo Of The Day: Saint-Trophime Stairway
Sunlight filters through the windows on the top half of the photo and joins with modern florescent lighting on the bottom half to illuminate this stairwell inside the cloisters at Saint-Trophime in Arles. Stairways, no matter how elegant or rustic, always have a feeling of movement, whether they are full of people or completely empty. [...]
Photo Of The Day: Inspiring Gargoyles
Today’s guest post is by photographer Mark E. Tisdale.
Photo Of The Day: Stairs at Tarascon
Which way to go? Does one style of stairs attract you more than another? Round or square? Is the destination determined by which set of stairs you choose? I found pairings of steps like this all over France, where one set were straight and harsh and a set perpendicular to them were rounded and visually [...]
