cubic garden
Monastery of Santa Catalina is a mini self-sufficient city inside Arequipa city built since 1579. Owned by a Dominican order of the Catholic Church. Part of this city now is a museum. I hope you find one of your delight ;-)
Sunny Day
The buildings have colors so intense that the best time to visit the Monastery is when there is a blue sky. These ones were taken in 2012. As always I just walked to see and feel the game of light and shadows of the volumes. Be aware that in those years I used to saturate, not so much but my goal was to reflect what I saw, and to me with the blue of the sky and the golden light the colors simply go out of scale.
message in the light
tree seeing windows
special centre
volumes
I think this is one of my favorite compositions of the work of an anonymous architect. It’s just admirable the cleanness in the design in an epoch were there was temptations to saturate with ornaments.
three
plain in vermillion (pure)
I did a selfie inside the kitchens, I always wanted a portrait transformed in a being of light inside a black place (of course I’m far from being a creature of light mwahahaha)
radiance
I usually look like Moe Szyslak but there I like that I look more like I see myself, not so much detailed I guess.
Fire!
labyrinth
volumes versus lines
Overcast day
I found a pair of Argentinian tourists in Titicaca Lake, they asked me if I could show them the Monastery in Arequipa. Sadly that day was an overcast one and the walls, like the visitors and me, felt a bit uncomfortable because was a visit very touristic, I mean: to go and see and after that just see other place without much soul really. It was in January.
tres tristes trees
red dream
natural monochrome
old door
cuore rosso
two brothers
encantamiento en rojo
four dancers
Richesse
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overcast puzzle
a desire of outside
Despite its religious nature I find that this monastery for women has a haunting feminine delicacy, like the sexy kiss of a woman with intense red lips.
Séduction
sensuality
Thank you for your patience with the long post, as I was saying, it’s a mini city and this barely is a glimpse.
Qhapaq 
These photographs are very beautiful. Thank you for sharing your work.
Thank you :-) The monastery is even more beautiful, if you could see it in person, there are so many colors…
A smile and kind regards from far away, Georgette Ann.
I’m sure it’s better in person! You’re welcome. Many blessings to you, Francis. :)
:-)
Gorgeous images, especially the natural monochrome, I love this shot.
Thanks Karen for your kind words. That photograph was made in the section of kitchens, so the black walls of soot and the light from above reveling the shapes =)
I love these, the juxtaposition of reds and blue, the shaded and light and the little details, excellent work.
Glad you like that those colors touched you Fragglrocking :-) although actually when I went there I was escaping from the work XP
magnifique, splendide, formidable… HL = huge like & btw, tu es solaire…;-)
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ah, je me rappelle avoir lu que le couvent Santa Catalina est le plus grand au monde…
Mille merci Mélanie :-) solaire sonne beaucoup mieux ^_^
Oui, Ils disent que c’est le plus grand au monde, mais je ne sais pas le monde alors Je ne pouvais pas le dire :D, d’ailleurs, j’ai peur de ressembler à un patriote :S
I send a huge hug to the beautiful Toulouse ;-)
Beautiful ….Great Pictures
Thanks for the kind words sir. Hope everything is well there.
Overcast Puzzle.Richesse, Encantamiento en Rojo……… two brothers and four dancers are my favorites, minimalistic simpliciy.colors, peaceful place/ Thanks for sharing Francis. Wanda
Your spirit is akin to the infinite openness of a quiet place, I’m glad that those images have meet you Wanda, Thanks to you too, pozdrowienia =)
(I’m happy, I can write Polish words thinking in them without translate or searching them, thanks for the gift of your words Wanda)
Thank You Francis for your uplifting words in this “dark” moment ( in Poland) of the year called fall/autumn. Your words and your being are like rays of light to me. Thanks for being. Buziaki. Dobrego weekendu. Wanda
And it’s an amazing Polish autumm in your photographs, we don’t have trees that change its leaves to rubies and gold. I know I’m not the first that says your smile is spring :-)
Dobrego weekendu, buziaki. Francis.