fbpix
A Closer Look at “Giver of Stars”

A Closer Look at “Giver of Stars”

A closer look at the details in “Giver of Stars” ✨🏡🌳 That little cottage is the North Lodge at the entrance of the University Parks in Oxford and I’d pass it every day, multiple times, as I’d cycle past. Years later, I...

Story Behind the Picture: Four and Twenty Blackbirds

In Oxford, England – a place I once called my home – on the corner of Ship and Cornmarket Streets, there exists a lovely row of buildings that haven’t changed since the Tudor era. They lean ever-so-slightly over the street below, and every time I walked or...

Story Behind the Picture: View from South Bank

For some reason, each time I return to England, it is sunny. Days and days of sunshine. Entire weeks of nothing but sun and breeze and glorious weather that is so very un-English it surprises me every time. When I lived here, however, that never seemed to be the case....

Story Behind the Picture: Radcliffe Camera

The Radcliffe Camera. For those of us that have toiled away up there, over countless stacks of countless books, we affectionately call it the “Rad Cam.” And by “affectionately,” I mean, “with equal parts loathing and not-so-fond remembrance of exhaustion.”...

Story Behind the Picture: Bicycles

April 2011, outside the Radcliffe Camera, Oxford Danny: “What’s with all the bikes?” Me: “It’s the only way to really get around the city when you live and study here.” Danny: “What do you do when it rains?” Me:...