#344: Reindeer
‘Now dash away! Dash away! Dash away all!’ – Clement Clarke Moore, Twas the night before Christmas
Tag: B+W
#326: Notre Dame
‘The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation’s effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius…’ – Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
#322: Père Lachaise cemetery
‘The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.’ – Percy Bysshe Shelley, Adonais
#319: St Pancras International
‘I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know where I am going.’ – Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
#317: A dog’s opinion
‘If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.’ – Woodrow Wilson
#308: Wheels
‘Life was a wheel, its only job was to turn, and it always came back to where it started.’ – Stephen King, Doctor Sleep
#302: Handprint
“Terror made me cruel . . .” – Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
#297: Concrete
‘They swore by concrete. They built for eternity.’ – Günter Grass
#283: Silver birch
‘She looked at a silver birch: it would have a soft, showery voice and would look like a slender girl, with hair blown all about her face and fond of dancing.’ – C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian
#280: The Seine
‘You’ll have to fall in love at least once in your life, or Paris has failed to rub off on you.’ – E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly