Against the skyline in Burrard Inlet, a tugboat pulls this maintenance barge toward a cruise ship in port. Vancouver, Canada.
Visitors photograph each other and the eclectic architecture of the Grand-Place. Brussels, Belgium.
Twilight casts a spell on the Chateau Chenonceau in the Loire Valley, France.
On this very early morning before hundreds of visitors arrive, a lone person walks among stone statues lining the famous bridge. Prague, Czech Republic.
A soggy tour group makes the best of this unfortunate day to visit Bruges. Belgium.
Across the Rideau Canal, a tree in Major’s Hill Park touches the Peace Tower and frames the Library of Parliament behind Parliament Hill. This wedding cake-like building is in the Gothic revival style. Ottawa, Canada.
In this haunting valley, you wonder if it’s possible to steal the soul of a place. With somber, grand beauty all around, you imagine the desperate lives of people here in the famine times. Yet today spirits uplift with clearing skies, clearer water, and jumping fish. County Mayo, Ireland.
On a crisp morning hike, chalk cliffs at Seaford Head beckon a visitor down this trail to the Seven Sisters. East Sussex. England.
In Ottawa below Parliament Hill, stillness is broken only by random dog barks and the crunch of bicycle tires on gravel. The superb architecture of Canada’s National Gallery marks its place in the distant skyline.
On a sunny day at Burrishoole Abbey on Clew Bay, this gravestone stands in a cemetery still in use and carefully maintained by the faithful. The dead are buried outside and also within what remains of the structure. With no roof since the late 1600s, there’s no real inside to the friary. County Mayo, Ireland.