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The Curve Of The Gherkin

Published on 2011-06-15 18:18:10

This is a follow-up to this article on photographing London in which I mentioned the Gherkin building in the financial district in London. I walked around the area, looking for a viewpoint from which I could show the way that the building curves inwa > read more

Ai Weiwei’s Zodiac: From Summer Palace To Somerset House

Published on 2011-06-13 08:53:01

It’s a small thing, but one of the more interesting way to enter Somerset House is from Victoria Embankment by the River Thames in London. The usual entrance is off the busy road named the Strand, but there is a back staircase (at least it feels li > read more

Six Angles To Shoot London

Published on 2011-06-03 05:32:34

If you have half a day free in London and want to see some of the more iconic buildings in the city, you can do it at a fairly relaxed walking pace. This walk begins at Liverpool Street rail station, and when you step out onto the forecourt you will > read more

Canaries In The Coal Mines: Thoughts For Endangered Species Day

Published on 2011-05-18 11:42:20

Where the Wild Things Are It’s just a teeny-tiny drop of a contribution in the ocean of ‘how can I help wild creatures who have it rough finding enough food to exist?’, but I just love our bird feeder and the crew of garden birds wh > read more

Henry Moore, Ai Weiwei, and More

Published on 2011-05-16 15:29:29

At The Exhibition Leeds Art Gallery in collaboration with the Tate Britain Gallery in London is hosting an exhibition of Henry Moore’s sculptures, paintings, and drawings. There is a permanent exhibition of his sculptures at Leeds Art gallery. For > read more

Right Royal Ecards To Celebrate The Royal Wedding

Published on 2011-04-27 17:18:28

The Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton We want to give a Quillcards romantic and fun nod to the forthcoming royal marriage of Prince William and Catherine (‘Kate’) Middleton that will take place here in England this Friday > read more

Kirkgate Market – The Largest Indoor Market In Europe

Published on 2011-04-22 10:08:02

Kirkgate Market Kirkgate market in the centre of Leeds in Yorkshire in the north of England is the largest indoor market in Europe. The ‘new’ building that it occupies dates back to 1904 and the heyday of Edwardian England when Leeds was the cent > read more

Help Bring Attention To Child In Need India This Mother’s Day

Published on 2011-03-31 09:22:58

The Endless Layers Of India Traveling for seven weeks in northern India with my husband David last year was an experience in endless head turning where one constantly sees astonishing tableaux of extremes – delightful and depressing, enriching > read more

Going Back To Waterloo Lake

Published on 2011-03-26 11:22:44

Back To Waterloo Lake I have been making some loose panoramas, including some of Waterloo Lake in Roundhay Park, Leeds. I call them ‘loose’ panoramas because of how I shoot them. Articles and tutorials on how to make panoramas by blending a numbe > read more

How To Help Earthquake Victims In Japan: An Insider’s View

Published on 2011-03-24 08:06:14

The Blogsherpa Community As you can see from the badge over in the sidebar here, the Quillcards Blog is part of Lonely Planet’s Blogsherpa community of travel writers. Being part of the Blogsherpa community has introduced us to a number of peop > read more

Advance Planning For Spring Lambs In The Yorkshire Dales

Published on 2011-03-17 16:36:26

The Farmer And His Sheep Sheep farmers in the Yorkshire Dales in the north of England face a short spring and summer season. Therefore it is important for them to put their lambs out in the fields as soon as the new spring grass starts to come... Cl > read more

New Ecard Images At Quillcards: Birds And Beyond

Published on 2011-03-09 10:16:49

We have just added a bunch of new images to our Quillcards ecards. Here are two of them, and you can see them all in the Recently Added section – just click the link to take a look. The Green-Winged Macaw Also known as the Red-and-green Macaw,. > read more

Quillcards Ecard Color Picker – What Color Was That?

Published on 2011-03-08 06:57:07

If you are familiar with our ecards, you will know they have a background color that fills the browser window around the image and the text, as you can see in this sample ecard [image opens in a new window]. Originally we offered a range of five... > read more

Ai Weiwei Sunflower Seeds

Published on 2011-03-01 11:07:55

TweetThe Tate Modern is the natural gallery in London to show ground-breaking, avant garde artworks. The kind that as often as not might make you shrug, dismiss, and despair of. I am talking about bricks laid out on the floor so that their only... C > read more

Binoculars, Magnifying Glass, And A Piece Of Rope

Published on 2011-02-26 15:28:58

TweetTravel Light I remember being proud of how little my pack weighed as it went on the scale at the airport check-in at the start of my year-long trip to South America. Just eight-and-three-quarter kilos (nineteen-and-one-quarter-pounds) –... > read more

Have You Seen The Snowdrops

Published on 2011-02-20 13:08:47

TweetThese snowdrops came out a few days ago. I saw them one day and intended to go out to photograph them the following day. However, the best-laid plans go awry, and the next day it snowed. The snow was swept away by the rain the next day and so I. > read more

Q

Published on 2011-02-10 13:33:30

Alexander Graham Bell Applies For A Patent Have you ever cooed to a loved one via the telephone or on your cell phone or mobile on Valentine’s Day or otherwise? Turns out that the inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, might have... > read more

Using MarkDown In MarsEdit For MadMimi Emails

Published on 2011-01-29 15:55:34

I have just been watching one of Don McAllister’s screencasts from his series of very useful tutorials at ScreenCastsOnline on how to get the best out of your Mac. This week’s show is about John Gruber’s Markdown and about various.. > read more

962 Quillcards Ecards For The New Year & Beyond

Published on 2011-01-21 06:39:42

As of this January 2011, we now have a total of 962 ecards on Quillcards. This includes 45 ecards that we have put on the site since Thanksgiving, and 17 ecards that we have just added. From... Read the full article. > read more

Replying To A Quillcard

Published on 2011-01-12 11:59:30

Imagine you receive a Quillcards ecard and want to reply – ideally with one of our ecards. However, you are not a member of Quillcards, so what do you do? In fact, it is very straightforward. At the foot of the ecard you will see two links. Cli > read more

New Ecard Features In My Quillcards

Published on 2010-12-16 08:16:15

Rereading Ecards That You Have Sent Members of Quillcards can reread the cards they have sent by logging in to their accounts and then going to the Ecard Archives section of My Quillcards. Until recently, members could view the cards they had sent... > read more

Ecards And Art Prints: What’s New At Quillcards

Published on 2010-11-29 12:59:59

Changes At Quillcards We have been working behind the scenes at Quillcards, and we have now completely revamped and upgraded Quillcards. Just to be clear, we are talking about the main site of Quillcards, not this blog. Among the new features you... > read more

The Best Of Leeds: Poverty And Grandeur

Published on 2010-11-22 07:18:38

A Very Brief Introduction Leeds is an industrial city – or it was before the destruction of British industry, Only a fool or a liar would say that Leeds is a beautiful city, but there are some beautiful buildings in it. So starting first by... > read more

The Quillcards Thanksgiving Ecards Are Now On Line

Published on 2010-11-20 16:11:49

In his 1863 Proclamation of Thanksgiving which set the precedent for the American national day of Thanksgiving, President Abraham Lincoln said: The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and... > read more

Tea Stories From The East To The West

Published on 2010-10-02 13:57:15

A Hymn To Korean Tea I drank a cup of tea and watched the flowing and stillness. Quietly and naturally I seemed to forget the return of time. The Korean monk Choui Uisun wrote this in 1837 in one of his set of poems called The Hymns To Korean Tea.... > read more

World Animal Day – What Is There To Celebrate?

Published on 2010-10-01 11:46:55

What Is There To Celebrate? The short answer is that there is lots to celebrate – even in a world troubled by declining species. On a personal level, guinea pigs are animals that Tamara and I particularly get a kick out of – and they get. > read more

‘Pearls Of Wisdom’ In Buddhist Sacred Relics

Published on 2010-09-16 09:38:18

A Buddhist Verse In the ‘Exalted Sublime Golden Light Sutra’, there is this verse that talks about a number of impossibilities in nature: When white lilies grow In the Ganges’ swift currents, When crows become red And cuckoos turn.. > read more