substack.com/@patrikl – As always, another interesting challenge. It seems that you are looking for something new, something created just for the challenge, and not something from one’s archives. Yeah, something new will not happen in a day or two. So if that is the case, feel free to ignore these candidates. Let me add, though, that your challenges always, without fail, cause me to consider my photographs, and in this case, consider their composition. Thanks for the helpful reminder.

That said, having gone through many of my photographs I am providing some photos from my travels. My offerings this time are similar to your examples, with some unusual selections from the great outdoors. I am providing twelve shots, all pretty different – and a little description.

1. At Belfast’s Titanic museum, this is taken from the far end of the construction slip, showing the columns of the ship, as a guide to the museum (and its iconic architecture.

2. Something from Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland – a vertical view of some of the basalt columns along the cliffside, the lines taking you to the sky.

3. Lines of the Peace Bridge and its support wires curving across the River Foyle in Derry, Northern Ireland. This was a nice shot in early light, waiting to avoid all the walkers.

4. This is fairly minimalist – I liked the line of power stanchions across the barren landscape of the Pawnee Grasslands in Colorado. It was winter, so after the snowfall, there was little of the tall grass to change the horizon in the distance.

5. Taken in Pula, after viewing the amphitheater there, as we wandered the streets toward a monastery, we had a couple of climbs on these wonderful stone streets, that wound there way through the old town. This was a shot from the top as we traversed back down to a main street.

6. Venice provides loads of opportunities for sight lines (as well as those golden hour shots from the last challenge), with this one during early morning – peering down a narrow canal drawing your attention to the center of the frame where the spire is highlighted by that early sunlight.

7. I visit a lot of churches – just like the architecture and the vibe (the serenity, and often the history). Here’s an example from a visit to St Joseph’s Oratorio in Montreal. It was a trek to get there from our hotel near the river (perhaps explaining the few people there), but it is a wonderful building with an exquisite organ and chandelier (center frame) – the lines of the aisle made by the pews juxtaposed with the vertical columns and hangings made this a nice shot for me.

8. In old Quebec City, this is a view of the funicular (from the top), the easiest way to navigate from the river level to the hilltop city.

9. This next shot is from the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC. I worked to get visitors out of the frame, and found this profile view of the 19-ft tall Jefferson (bronze) standing between two of the many ionic columns supporting the roof of the iconic monument – one of the top exhibits in the US.

10. Also in Washinton, this photograph is down one of the hallways in the Library of Congress. The photograph illustrates your concept of lines (columns and lights), but the building itself is one of my favorites in the world – it has many intricacies and wonderful frescoes and tile mosaics. The impressive collection of books aside, the building should take its bow at center stage.

11. I wanted to include something from Alaska, and came up with a couple of options. This first one is of the rail tracks wending their way out of Denali National Park – this is part of the Alaska Railroad, an engineering feat when constructed. On our visit there, we had to walk down these tracks to get to our hiking trails – not really that scary as the road is not all that busy. Also, as the s-curve would indicate, the train cannot move very fast through here.

12. And finally, here is a shot from the Alaska Railroad, as the train made its way from Denali Park to Anchorage. I like this shot because it looks down the train to the rear of the train, capturing the heights of Denali in the background, and that is the real star of the photograph.