This time, Cee is challenging us to highlight the geometry of our photographs by showing pictures of “lines”. I have a few possibilities –
This stop on the Montreal Metro features tiles marked off by straight lines into rectangles, contained within lines that curve around into circles, on a background of more straight lines that define little hexagons. Ah, geometry.
This square-rigger ship that we visited at Jamestown, Virginia relies on many lines, and stays, and assorted other ropes each with its own specific and essential function in holding the rigging together and letting the crew maneuver the ship.
And finally, in the courtyard of St. Paul’s Outside the Walls on the southern edge of Rome, stonecutters centuries ago played with all sorts of variations on lines to make every column unique.
A Number of Things 
Love the rigging lines!
Thank you! The thing that fascinates me about ships’ rigging is that every bit of it is functional, no matter how complicated it looks.
A fabulous eclectic mix Sharon, I love them all. Is is actually called St Paul’s Outside the Walls?
Yes – well, in Italian, Basilica Papale di San Paolo fuori le Mura. It’s believed to be built over his tomb, a few miles from the place where he was beheaded.
my great grandfather was a stone mason
One of the interesting, highly skilled (though tough) jobs that don’t seem to be around any more, I think. A little bit like my great grandfather the blacksmith.
he actually worked on a lot of the pubs in and around the city but yes unfortunately they are not as sort after as they used to be
These are all great Sharon…I love the Metro stop. And St Paul’s…I love how these building age so wonderfully
Thanks, Jo! They do hold up well, don’t they? (Of course, there’s the argument that we only get to see the well-built stuff from a few hundred or thousand years ago – anything that was shoddily built or badly maintained fell down long before we had a chance to look at it!)
I was reading somewhere that most of the building we uncover are only still around because they have been buried and protected…the really old ones I mean
I wonder if any of ours will be around to look at in a thousand years?
Those stonecutters must have had Barleytwists on their minds 😉
Nice selection Sharon !
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Thanks!
Especially love the lines within circles!
I love that one too! (I don’t usually photograph subway stations, but that’s one of the irresistible ones 😉 )