Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 6 Nov 26
I couldn't help but be moved by the way it seemed to sum up how the past can press itself upon the present - how something so distant, so seemingly unreachable, can suddenly feel so close.
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I couldn't help but be moved by the way it seemed to sum up how the past can press itself upon the present - how something so distant, so seemingly unreachable, can suddenly feel so close.
St. Lawrence in Gumfreston, Pembrokeshire. Thanks to all members for making this possible.
People came to the wells, and over time the place acquired a significance that seems to have drawn together different beliefs and ways of understanding the world.
And perhaps that's what I enjoy most about photography. A seemingly ordinary encounter can reveal something beyond its immediate subject.
There is something extraordinary in the way an act so small can reach across time, taking something that might otherwise have been lost and folding it back into the continuum of the building's life.
Here lies an extraordinary warp and weft of time and place, of home and circumstance, of the past, the present and the future all rolled into one.
Peterborough Cathedral and the Infirmary
Over the years, I’ve become convinced that some places have a genius loci strong enough to pierce the gelatinous membrane of the present
On my first visit I saw an eye peeping from behind the flaking limewash.
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