Domes and Domes
Mar 7, 2012
Dusk comes to the rooftops of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul.
Hole in the Clouds
Tag: rooftops
Portugal
Apr 13, 2012
Above the ships at sea and Lisbon's red tile roofs and satellite dishes.
Santa's Eye View
Nov 19, 2012
From the rooftops, here on Kater Street, you can see most of Philadelphia's gap-toothed skyline, such as it is. This is a city that had no tall skyscrapers at all until the late 1980s and does not yet have a critical mass of them, skyline-wise.
From a few fortunate vantage points around town, the buildings of Center City appear to clump together more or less like a proper downtown. But from most places, including the roofs of Kater Street's two-story row houses, the skyline looks raggedy and disorganized.
Actually, from the roof of our own house up toward the end of the block, you can't see the skyline at all on account of the trees–or at least that was the case last week, when we climbed up there and shot this picture. Since then, the leaves have yellowed and dropped quite suddenly, and we would imagine the view is now only partially blocked, by a lacework of tree branches.
Big Bird #2
Sep 25, 2013
Small-town grackle.
Wildly Optimistic
Oct 8, 2013
But probably better than a blank wall. See also here and here and here.
Back of the Cathedral #1
Apr 20, 2015
St. Patrick's Cathedral from behind and a little bit above, in midtown Manhattan. We enjoyed this view from the window of our hotel room during a recent trip to New York.