Bahamas - Abacos | |
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Although technically not in the Caribbean, the Bahamas has neat pastel-colored whitewash houses, white sandy beaches and crystal clear water. |
France | |
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Burgundy is the famous French wine region North of Dijon. |
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During the 14th and 15th centuries, the 100 years war between the English and French was fought along the banks of the strategically important Dordogne rivers. |
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The Jura is the area of Eastern France next to Switzerland, south of Dijon and west of Geneva. |
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Cahors, the capital of the Lot department is two hours' drive due North from Toulouse. |
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Photographs of the center of Paris |
Germany - Freiburg | |
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Pictures from the Black Forest (Schwarzwald) region of Germany |
Italy - Tuscany | |
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Any visit to Tuscany is incomplete without a visit to the city at the heart of the renaissance, Florence. |
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Montalcino is famous for its Brunello wine. |
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Sant Antimo is one of the most perfectly preserved Romanesque churches in Tuscany. |
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This might be heresy, but I prefer Siena over Florence -- largely because because it became a backwater in the 1400s and so is an architectural gem now. |
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The region between Florence and Siena, Chianti means more than Sangiovese grapes and robust red wine. |
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The photographs in this gallery capture the beauty of Arezzo and preparations for "Giostra del Saraceno", a recreation of a medieval jousting competition held every year in September. |
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West of the road between Florence and Siena, San Gimignano is famous for its crop of medieval towers and local white wine. |
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A prosperous town west of Florence, and the center of the Tuscan olive oil industry, Lucca's charm derives from its Romanesque architecture, medieval fortifications and unpretentious lifestyle. |
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The Crete is an agricultural area south of Siena with very unusual landscape of rolling clay hills. |
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Famous for its alabaster workshops, Volterra rises from the Tuscan plain and ends in crumbling cliffs that have claimed nearly a third of the town in the past 500 years. |
Mexico | |
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The Mexican state of Tamaulipas is to the south of Monterrey, east of the Sierra Madre mountains. |
Spain - Catalonia | |
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Capital of Catalonia and one of Spain's leading cities and leader in Modernist art. |
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Besalu is a small town with a long history: The Romans built the first bridge, the church was finished in 1003, and it was birthplace of "Wilfred The Hairy", uniter of Catalonia. |
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A collection of images from smaller villages in the Catalonian countryside. |
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Cava is Spain's Champagne, made from local grapes grown in Sant Sadurni d'Anoia, near Barcelona. |
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Gateway to the eastern Pyrenees, Girona has been besiged on at least 21 occasions and ruled by the Romans, Charlemagne, the Moors and the Catalonians. |
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A relgious refuge hidden at the end of a spectacular valley under a waterfall. |
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A monastery perched atop a dramatic rocky outcrop a short drive outside Barcelona. |
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Vic is a small but prosperous Catalan town with a long history. |
UK - England | |
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Avebury is a small village close to Stonehenge that is surrounded by a prehistoric ring of stones. |
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Photographs from the UK's capital city: from the British Museum via Tower Bridge and St Paul's to Temple Church. |
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Salisbury is an ancient town south west of London with a remarkable cathedral. |
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The most famous stone circle in the world. |
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A variety of images from along the Thames in West London. |
USA | |
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I'm fortunate to live in one of the most photogenic cities in the world. |
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These photographs cover the beautiful California coastline North and South of San Francisco. |
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Muir Woods (officially: John Muir National Monument) is a grove of 2000-year-old coastal Redwood trees just a few miles North-West of San Francisco. |
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The New York financial district, Wall Street, world trade center site ("ground zero") and Liberty Island. |
