Showing posts with label Lions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lions. Show all posts

Monday, 10 January 2011

CITY OF LIONS

Deadlines are pressing and the gentle art of blogging is going to have to be put (more or less) on hold for a few weeks...

Every now and again, just to keep things ticking over, I'll be sharing a few photos from our recent visit to Venice (and a couple from earlier pilgrimages) beginning today with some images celebrating the leonine companion of the city's patronal guardian, Saint Mark.

I really love lions (probably because of my childhood obsession with Narnia's Aslan) and winged lions are obviously in a very special cat-egory all their own!

There are a great many lions in Venezia, these are but a few...

Chimera II

Domes and Flag

Sentinel

Cushions

Angry Lion

Doge and Lion

Lion and Book

Leo

Wing

Knocker 1

Lion Doors
And finally...

Lion Biscuits

Images: Brian Sibley & David Weeks © 2009-2011

You can view more of our Venice photographs on my flickr Photostream