LightCentric Photography

07/18/2026

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OUR TRAVELS around the world have been pretty strongly weighted toward Europe, the United States, and the Caribbean region. There are a few areas we have briefly visited in parts of Eastern Europe and Asia. because we have spent a fair amount of time there, I showcased the shrines and temples of J*p...

07/11/2026

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I REALLY should have known better. I started down this road with the thought of one blog post on some of the more impressive churches I have had the pleasure of seeing around the world. I mentioned in Part I, that I have seen perhaps hundreds of churches, and photographed alot of them. Some of them....

06/27/2026

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I WANT to turn a corner for a minute and look at some very much simpler churches, but every bit as symbolic. The churches of New England. By comparison, the architecture of these churches are very simple. There are a number of reasons behind this, I think.

06/24/2026

The 13th Century St. Severin Church (the official "paris church" of the University of Paris which was founded in 1215) stands in the shadow of its contemporary, Notre Dame Cathedral just across to the mainland from the Île de la Cité. By no means, however, does it stand in its figurative shadow. Following a fire in the 15th century, it underwent extensive rebuilding and remodeling, in what is known as (French) "Flamboyant Gothic" style. The exterior is impressive with its Gothic architecture, including prominent flying buttresses. But once again, it was the interior of this church that caught my attention.

Saint Severin Church
Paris, France
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06/23/2026

When you approach the St. Sauveur Cathedral in Aix-en-Provence in Mediterranean Coastal France, it looks a lot like just another one of those somewhat plain Gothic Cathedrals. But when you step inside, you will find the interior is pretty special. One of my favorite images from that trip was the baptistery inside this church. It is said that the columns seen around the font were probably columns from an ancient Roman Temple that once stood on the same site.

Baptistery
St. Sauveur Cathedral
Aix-en-Provence, France
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06/20/2026

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IN 2015, we had the great fortune to spend a little over a week in J*pan. It was my first trip to Asia (save for the ever so brief touch in Istanbul on a cruise stop a couple years previously in 2013). In a way, that is surprising, as my dad spent some time in Korea and Okinawa during his stint in ...

06/13/2026

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A series on churches I have photographed around the world

MAYBE TOO many. 😊 It is not hard to see why churches figure so fully into sightseeing around the world. They tend to be the foremost specimina of the historical development of art and architecture, being possibly rivaled only by some of the impressive palaces around the world. I have seen some pr...

06/06/2026

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WHEN I refer to "major" third pary manufactures, for years there were three: Sigma,Tamron, Tokina. There were others, but they really didn't match up in either build or optical quality.

05/30/2026

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GATEWAY ARCH National Park is the smallest National Park in the U.S., at just over 92 acres. Its grounds are on the west side of the Mississipi River near where St. Louis, Missouri's oldest buildings once stood; and very near the start of the Louis and Clark Expedition. Originally built as a monumen...

05/29/2026

A month ago, we visited Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic. Probably the highlight for me, photographically, was their own "Umbrella Street." As I recently blogged, these umbrella streets and plazas have been springing up all over the world for the past several years and I have become aware of them and now seek out and try to photograph them on my travels.

https://lightcentric.blogspot.com/2026/05/umbrella-streets-they-are-thing.html

In fact the umbrella street nearly overshadowed another image that I made of Puerto Plata's "Pink Street." This one needed some post-processing work, and when I first reviewed them, I didn't think any were worth publishing. This morning I looked again and decided maybe this one was.