Following up on my post about the Royal Menagerie at the Tower of London, I wanted to write about its descendant, the Zoological Society of London (or Z-as-in-Zed-S-L) in Regent’s Park. London Zoo is a bit out of the way by public transportation. The Underground skirts the edge of Regent’s Park, making a single stop …
The Lewis Chessmen, on display at the British Museum, offer a fascinating look at Viking Britain and Islamic influence in medieval Europe.
The Tower of London has been many things in its thousand-year history: a symbol of power, an armory, a site of executions, and surprisingly, a zoo.
No real story here, just a couple of nice shots from a recent trip to the Detroit Institute of Arts. I decided to follow up on an experiment from a few years back and shoot only with my 50mm f/1.8 lens. It was a gloomy, overcast day and the finished photos evoked the right mood …