Bench and concrete floor, with light refracted through the glass roof, Women's Memorial and Education Center, Arlington, Virginia (Manfredi/Weiss, architects).
Handrail, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.
La Terraza, Maastricht, Netherlands (Mario Botta, architect).
Fender, La Jolla Motor Car Show, San Diego, California.
Her Secret is Patience, sculpture by Janet Echelman, Civic Space Park, Phoenix, Arizona.
Children's Park Fountain, San Diego, California (Peter Walker and Partners, landscape architects).
Airplane, Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson, Arizona.
Column and wall, Lattie Coor Hall, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona (Eddie Jones, architect).
Trellis, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona (Antoine Predock, architect).
A rock interferes with dune patterns, Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area, California.
Algodones Dunes and Chocolate Mountains, Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area, California.
Gypsum dune at sunset, White Sands National Monument, New Mexico.
White Sands National Monument, New Mexico.
View from inside the Erlanger House, Urbana, Illinois (Jack Baker, architect).
Escalator and wall, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (I.M. Pei, architect).
Thomas W. Keating Bioresearch Building, University of Arizona, Tempe, Arizona (Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership, architects).
College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona (Eddie Jones, architect).
Las Vegas Springs Preserve, Las Vegas, Nevada (Tate Snyder Kimsey Architects).
Bubble and sky, Westerpark, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Fluorescent lights, detail of Untitled (Marfa Project), by Dan Flavin.
Skin, Seattle Public Library, Seattle, Washington (Office for Metropolitan Architecture).
Underside of the roof, Gyotaejeon, the Queen's residence, Seoul, South Korea.
Spring Street, Tauranga, New Zealand.
Red Hills Visitor Center, Saguaro National Park, Arizona.
Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Community Planning Building, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico (Antoine Predock, architect).
Schouwburgplein, Rotterdam, Netherlands (West 8, architects).
Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communications, Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona (Steven Ehrlich, architect).
Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Community Planning Building, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico (Antoine Predock, architect).
Former post office, Amsterdam, Netherlands (Michel de Klerk, architect).
Shaker stairs, Pleasant Hill, Kentucky.
Meinel Optical Sciences Building, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona (Richärd + Bauer, architects).
Corrugated metal pipe, Rio Grande Nature Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico (Antoine Predock, architect).
Courtyard steps, detail of Apollo, by Olaf Nicolai, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?
— Margot Fonteyn, Autobiography
Margot Fonteyn’s quotation captures the spirit of the photographs presented in this latest slideshow of mine on Places. Fleeting moments and the rigors imposed by camera technology challenge both the eye and the mind to create opportunities to make expressive photographs.
These images focus upon fragments of things in the world — buildings, landscapes — which we usually observe and grasp first as a whole, maybe even from a distance. They are static compositions that result from dynamic transitional experiences — experiences “in-between,” in a sense, when we pause to examine an intricate detail, or to notice the illogical patterns that are, as Fonteyn says, “full of beauties.”
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