Image by Foster and Sons This monster wave off Oahu gives us an idea of what Shackleton saw from the 22' James Caird at midnight on May...

Over the past month, I've been updating the site and have now decided to integrate the bibliographies and images into the photo essays....

Irises , Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, May 1889. Vincent van Gogh. Getty Center. Just started on a new project and I was thinking of blogging...

On the link to Paul's 1st journey. Now fixed.

Jane Austen colorized by ChatGPT When Emma was published in December 1815, Jane's brother Charles read it three times over the course of...

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There were greenhouses on the west lawn of the White House! West lawn of the White House, 1889

In Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel, the risen Christ is the powerful center of The Last Judgment. His mother turns away, as she no longer...

Then he broke the bread... and everyone had all they wanted.

This Rembrandt was stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardener in 1990.

Interesting to see this story interpreted by a 17th century Dutch painter. Bruegel shows us quite vividly how crowded the town was and...

This Lent season, I thought it would be interesting to take a look at how the great artists interpreted the words of the Gospel. 20 year...

Paul Revere's drawing of the North End, colorized by ChatGPT, April 2025. About 10:00 at night Dr. Warren sent someone for Paul Revere....

North End, Boston by Paul Revere ca. 1775 Two hundred and fifty years ago today, Dr. Joseph Warren asked Paul Revere to ride to Lexington...

I'm loving colorizing these photos on ChatGPT.

After seven days in the boats, they landed on Elephant Island. Throughout their horrific ordeal, Shackleton had exhibited his usual...

Shackleton tells the story in South : Seeing Worsley taking a sun-sighting at noon, Shackleton "jumped into Worsley's boat in order to...

"To us it was a day that seemed likely to lead to no more days. I do not think I had ever before felt the anxiety that belongs to...

"Now our home was being shattered under our feet, and we had a sense of loss and incompleteness hard to describe." Shackleton...