Something Beautiful

Beautiful Prague

Prague is one of the world's most beautiful cities -- as these photos demonstrate so well.

Holmes Photography Gallery

I've linked to the Holmes photography gallery before. Tonight, in need of comfort, I found myself wandering through its pages once again. Most of the pictures are very good, many are fine, and some few are truly excellent. Leafing through them, page by page, I find myself calmed. A degree of hope is restored.

Here's just one photo that I find intriguing and lovely and somehow restorative: West Maui.

You can review these photos one by one, beginning here, or you can take them gallery by gallery.

Jacqueline Kennedy at the Vatican

I'm not sure these are exactly beautiful (although perhaps they are), but there's something about these photos of Jacqueline Kennedy at the Vatican that has drawn me back again and again over the years. 

100 Beautiful Places

Here are 100 places that, in one person's view, are the most beautiful in the world. Some very beautiful photos here!

Lawrence, OP (Flickr)

I'm going to have to dig down deep into Lawrence, OP's site. There's a lot there.

Curtis photogravure

This photograph is an old favorite for me. It's photogravure of a Chimakum woman, ca. 1912, by Edward S. Curtis.

(As usual, you'll need to see the Zoom version to really appreciate it.)

Life magazine photos

Not exactly beautiful, but still pretty amazing -- hundreds of photographs from old Life magazines.

Flickr Commons

I haven't looked around much yet at Flickr Commons, but it looks very promising.

A good way of looking around seems to be the tag cloud.

While I was finding my way about, this photo from the Smithsonian collection caught my eye.

The Matterhorn

The Matterhorn, the most famous mountain in the Alps.

Churches in the Faroe Islands

Be prepared to be impressed - Churches in the Faroe Islands.   

This page drew my attention to these islands, and then I searched out the page with the churches.  The Faroes are closer to Scotland and Norway, but they belong to Denmark.