Want to see the big ones?

If you want to see the bigger versions of these art history images, shoot me a note and I'll add you to my friends list.

See them in 3-D

Here.

Me:

I'm a recovering art historian and photographer (NYU and Mizzou, if you must know) who still does a decent amount of traveling and shooting. I figured I would share what I'm seeing and shooting with others, since it's not always easy to find good images of even the most famous monuments. These aren't meant to be the prettiest pictures in the world. Often, these days, I can only shoot what's there, when I'm there. (If the light is bad, I have to deal, rather than come back at the right time, as I would with more time. I don't usually roll with a tripod anymore, nor a set of hot lights. You get the idea...) These images are meant for use as study aids and reminders. They're visual notecards, in a way. Mostly, I shoot them because the very act of making the photographs forces me to look more closely, understand better, and helps me remember what I've seen. You will note that these sets are pretty much unedited, often with duplicate exposures of many views. (These are to make sure I've got one that's free of camera shake, or without that tourist, bird, dog, or gypsy covering something important.)

Freebies:

Feel free to use whatever you see here for study purposes. If you need anything for print, presentation, public presentation, or even to cover a hole in your drywall, send me a note and we'll talk. If you are someone who would like to arrange a photo shoot on location, I have plenty of experience doing that, too, stateside and overseas, with lights, scaffolds, the whole Magilla... Shoot me a note, let's talk.

Nerdy Tech Details:

These photos don't look nearly as good as the originals! There are a few reasons for that, foremost among them being that they're uploaded using a bulk resizing and uploading tool that isn't designed for great picture fidelity.

The real dillio: I shoot everything digitally these days, with Canon's good lenses (budget permitting) at about 13 megapixels, in a RAW format + jpeg. The images here are the unprocessed jpegs straight from the camera. They are usually smaller than the original photo ( which run 4270 x 2900 pixels) and as they record forever the choices made by the camera's brain (color balance, exposure, sharpness), they do not at all reflect the quality possible from the original photo recorded in that RAW file. (A RAW contains all the original shooting data, meaning what you see in black and white could be reprocessed to the original color, white balanced properly for perfect color fidelity, lightened, desaturated, contrast increased, decreased, etc.)

In other words, the real photos are much better than what's posted here. If you need to take a look at the better quality, send me a note with the file name, and we'll see what we can do.