This little church in the mountains is beautiful in any season, but I think fall is the best. I stumbled upon a wedding this day. Every Friday Lili shares her favorite photography & the stories behind the photos.
The Verse of Light from the Qur'an is written very pretty, and is a good fit for looking up at the many glass lamps in the Mosque of Muhammad Ali, in Cairo, Egypt. The verse goes like this: God is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The parable of His Light is a niche wherein is a lamp— the lamp is in a glass, the glass as it were a glittering star— lit from a blessed olive tree, neither eastern nor western, whose oil almost lights up, though fire should not touch it. Light upon light. God draws parables
As I was racing around the island in a golf cart to try (and succeeded) to win a scavenger hunt I saw this beautiful sunset and squealed to a stop before snapping this pic. Every Friday Lili shares her favorite photography & the stories behind the photos.
Banjo Billy's is a local tour operator that does ghost and beer tours of Boulder and Denver. I go every October for their ghost bus tour. Since its the first Friday in September I can now officially start planning for Halloween! Every Friday Lili shares her favorite photography & the stories behind the photos.
My favorite colors are blue and purple, and so when I saw this creation by Chihuly at the Denver Botanical Gardens it fascinated me. Every Friday Lili shares her favorite photography & the stories behind the photos.
The Jellyfish at Toronto's Ripley's Aquarium are just memorizing. Read more about the aquarium here. Every Friday Lili shares her favorite photography & the stories behind the photos.
I love taking photography of simple things like doors and windows. This Chinese style window at the Lan Su Garden in Portland, OR caught my eye. Every Friday Lili shares her favorite photography & the stories behind the photos.
Tessa loves to play fetch! Every Friday Lili shares her favorite photography & the stories behind the photos.
Wandering the grounds of the Mission San Xavier Del Bac, I came across some old adobe buildings missing their roofs. I had to quickly snap some photos as it was quite apparent that a large storm was about to roll in. Every Friday Lili shares her favorite photography & the stories behind the photos.
One thing many people don't realize is that the monuments and temples of Ancient Egypt were actually vividly painted. But time has erased many of the colors or they are hard to see in dimly lit temples where flashlights and flash is outlawed to protect what colors remain. Which is why when I visited the Cenotaph Temple of Ramesses II at Abydos, a mostly ruined temple, I was excited to not only see amazing colors, but they were close enough to the light outside to take good photos! Every Friday Lili shares her favorite photography & the stories behind the