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Description: Entrance to Casa De Pilatos, Seville, Spain, December 2024. This photo looks perhaps like a grand house, but is in fact part of a large site with very ornate work inside. The Palace of the Adelantados Mayores de Andalucía, better known as La Casa de Pilatos (Pilate's House), was built between the 15th and 16th centuries, and serves as the permanent residence of the Dukes of Medinaceli. https://fundacionmedinaceli.org/en/monuments/house-of-pilate/
Description: Young Autumn ash trees, Hob Moor, Holgate, York, England, UK, November 2020. What look like leaves are actually clumps of ash “keys” – winged seeds that will fall in winter and early spring. Black and white version of colour original, inverted. Also available as digital sketch and monchrome photo.
Description: Young Autumn ash trees, Hob Moor, Holgate, York, England, UK, November 2020. What look like leaves are actually clumps of ash “keys” – winged seeds that will fall in winter and early spring. Black and white version of colour original. Also available as digital sketch and monchrome inverted photo.
Description: Young Autumn ash trees, Hob Moor, Holgate, York, England, UK, November 2020. What look like leaves are actually clumps of ash “keys” – winged seeds that will fall in winter and early spring. Colour photo edited with digital sketch effect. Also available as monochrome photo and monchrome inverted photo.
Description: Night scene at Plaza or Plaça de l’Arbre, Alber or Árbol (= Square of the Tree), El Carmen, Valencia, Spain, December 2025. This is a hand-held night shot. Colour photo with digital paint effect. See https://cadenaser.com/comunitat-valenciana/2025/05/07/la-valencia-olvidada-placa-de-larbre-alber-o-arbol-por-rafa-solaz-radio-valencia/ (in Spanish).
Description: Night scene at Plaza or Plaça de l’Arbre, Alber or Árbol (= Square of the Tree), El Carmen, Valencia, Spain, December 2025. This is a hand-held night shot. See https://cadenaser.com/comunitat-valenciana/2025/05/07/la-valencia-olvidada-placa-de-larbre-alber-o-arbol-por-rafa-solaz-radio-valencia/ (in Spanish).
Description: Lights reflect on the water in the early morning, in front of Government House, Kos Town, Kos, Dodecanese Islands, Greece, September 2023. Part of the wall of the castle (Neratzia) is to the right. Colour photograph with digital paint effect. The Government House (Palazzo del Governo) is the landmark Italian building in Kos, built in 1927-1929 in the modernist Moorish style, based on designs by Fiorestano Di Fausto. During the Italian occupation it housed the fascist administration. Today it houses Law Courts and Police Headquarters. (source; https://www.flickr.com/photos/bazylek/5992812545).
Description: A modern development – Urbanizacion Los Almendros - behind Burriana beach, Nerja, Malaga province, Andalucia, Spain, September 2022. The mountains in the background are part of the Parque Natural de Sierras de Tejeda, Almijara y Alhama. Black and white version of colour original, with neon effect.
Description: Medieval buildings by Vannes port, Brittany, France, July 2025. Vannes (Breton: Gwened) is a town in the French department of Morbihan, Brittany, northwestern mainland France. It was founded over 2,000 years ago and has a population of around 50,000. It had many medieval half-timbered houses (colombages in French) - see https://gallivance.net/2022/01/23/half-timbered-houses-standing-the-test-of-time/.
Description: Alhambra viewed from Carmen de la Victoria, Albaicin, Granada, Andalucia, Spain, March 2023. Sepia version of colour original. The Alhambra is a palace and fortress complex located in Granada, Andalusia, Spain. It is one of the most famous monuments of Islamic architecture and one of the best-preserved palaces of the historic Islamic world, in addition to containing notable examples of Spanish Renaissance architecture. During the Nasrid era, the Alhambra was a self-contained city separate from the rest of Granada below. As a royal city and citadel, it contained at least six major palaces, most of them located along the northern edge where they commanded views over the Albaicín quarter.
Description: Alhambra viewed from Carmen de la Victoria, Albaicin, Granada, Andalucia, Spain, March 2023. The Alhambra is a palace and fortress complex located in Granada, Andalusia, Spain. It is one of the most famous monuments of Islamic architecture and one of the best-preserved palaces of the historic Islamic world, in addition to containing notable examples of Spanish Renaissance architecture. During the Nasrid era, the Alhambra was a self-contained city separate from the rest of Granada below. As a royal city and citadel, it contained at least six major palaces, most of them located along the northern edge where they commanded views over the Albaicín quarter.
Description: Stained glass window, Holy Trinity church, York, England, United Kingdom, January 2024. There are two Holy Trinity churches in York – this is the one on Goodramgate. “The east window especially has marvellous stained glass that was donated in the early 1470s by the Reverend John Walker, rector of the church.” https://www.visitchurches.org.uk/visit/our-churches/holy-trinity-church-york-north-yorkshire
Description: Plaza de España, Seville, Spain, December 2024. Built for the 1929 Ibero-American Exposition - a landmark example of Regionalism Architecture, mixing elements of the Baroque Revival, Renaissance Revival and Moorish Revival (Neo-Mudéjar) styles of Spanish architecture. [wikipedia]. Used as a film location in Lawrence of Arabia and Star Wars – Attack of the Clones.
