A. The first category is in three parts: English, French and German Gothic Cathedrals and Chapels. Reference: "A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method" by Sir Banister Fletcher, 15th Edition.

1) The selected English Gothic samples are divided into five styles. Note: Many of the selected cathedrals comprise a mixture of styles. In the following listing the style of the nave is used as the referenced style. Prehistoric and Gothic Revival are also included.

a) Norman: 11th and 12th centuries: massive, semicircular arches, cylindrical piers, flat buttresses;
Selected Examples:

Canterbury Cathedral
Chichester Cathedral
Durham Cathedral
Leuchars Church, Scotland
Norwich Cathedral
Ripon Cathedral: (considered "Transitional" to Early English)

b) Early English: 12th and 13th centuries: less massive, first use of pointed arches, simple ornamentation;
Selected Examples:

Fountains Abbey
Glasgow Cathedral, Scotland
Lichfield Cathedral
Lincoln Cathedral
Merton College Chapel, Oxford
Salisbury Cathedral
Wells Cathedral
Westminister Abbey (includes five different styles)
Worcester Cathedral York Cathedral

c) Decorated: 14th century; more ornate than early English;
Selected Examples:

Bristol Cathedral
Exeter Cathedral

d) Perpendicular: 14th and 15th centuries; more ornate than Decorated with vertical tracery and larger windows;
Selected Examples:

Gloucester Cathedral
Melrose Abbey, Scotland (with some French influence)
Oxford Divinity School (with fan vaulting)
Rosslyn Chapel, Scotland (with some Portuguese influence) Saint Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh, Scotland

e) Tudor: 16th and 17th centuries; Use of Fan Vaulting and beginning of Renaissance style
Selected Examples:

Henry VII Chapel, Westminister Abbey
King's College Chapel, Cambridge
Queen's College Library, Oxford (Renaissance, by Sir Christopher Wren)

f) Prehistoric: +2,000 BCE;
Selected Example:

Stonehenge

g) Gothic Revival: 19th Century
Selected Example:

Truro Cathedral

2) The selected French Gothic samples are divided into three styles:

a) Primaire: 11th to 12th century; starting with Romanesque (in England this style is called Norman) and transitioning into pointed arches and traceried windows;
Selected Examples:

Notre Dame de Paris
Chartres Cathedral
Laon Cathedral

b) Secondaire: 13th century; introduces large, circular windows;
Selected Examples:

Rheims Cathedral
Amiens Cathedral
La Sainte Chapelle
Strasbourg Cathedral

c) Tertiaire: 14th, 15th and part of the 16th centuries: free flowing window tracery;
Selected Example:

Beauvais Cathedral

3) German Gothic started with the Romanesque style and developed into the Gothic style:

a) Romanesque: 8th to12th centuries;
Selected Examples:

Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle) Cathedral
Limburg Cathedral (considered "Transitional" to Gothic)
Maria Laach Abbey
Mainz Cathedral
Speyer Cathedral
Worms Cathedral

b) Gothic: 13th to16th centuries: similar to French Secondaire.
Selected Examples:

Freiburg Cathedral
Regensburg Cathedral
Saint Stephen Cathedral, Passau (partially rebuilt in Renaissance/Baroque styles)
Saint Stephen Cathedral, Vienna
Ulm Cathedral
Cologne Cathedral

B. The Spain catagory illustrates the following examples of major Moorish architecture in Andalusia in Southern Spain. Reference "Islamic Spain" by Godfrey Goodwin.

1) The Alhambra in Granada
2) The Alcazaba and Generalife at the Alhambra
3) The Great Mosque in Cordoba
4) The Alcazaba in Malaga and the Alcazar and Giralda in Seville

C. The Egypt category illustrates four major periods in the history of Ancient Egypt. Supplemental reference: Swan-Hellenic Handbook.

1) Old Kingdom, 4400 - 2466 BCE

a) Sakkara: Zosar Stepped Pyramid, Teti, Unas, User-Kaf and Mastabas
b) Gizeh: Pyramids and the Sphinx
c) Meydum Pyramid, Mastabas and recovered figurines in the Cairo Museum

2) Middle Kingdom, 2466 - 1600 BCE

a) Tomb-Chapels of Beni Hassan
b) Model Soldiers from a XII Dynasty Tomb in the Cairo Museum

3) New Kingdom, 1600 - 332 BCE

a) Amenophis III and Tyi: Akhenaten's parents, Display in the Cairo Museum
b) Tell El-Amarna: includes relics of Akhenaten's residence in the Cairo Museum plus the Nefertiti portrait in the Berlin Museum
c) Great Temple at Karnak
d) Great Temple at Luxor
e) Abu Simbel: Great Temple of Ramesses II and Nefertari in Nubia
f) Abydos and Quay at Balliana: Temple of Seti I, the father of Ramesses II, and a Temple of Ramesses II
g) Assuan: Unfinished, flawed granite obelisk
h) Western Thebes - The "City of the Dead" :
Selected Examples:

Tombs of the Nobels: includes figurines in the Cairo Museum
Deir El-Bahari: Temple of the woman Pharaoh, Hatshepsut
Valley of the Kings: includes relics of King Tut's tomb in the Cairo Museum
Ramesseum, includes vaulted storage structures (Joseph's (!?!)
Temple of Ramesses III (Medinet Habu)
The Colossi of Memnon Fragment of sculptor's study stone from Tomb of Ramesses IV
Deir El-Medineh: the "Workmen's Village"

4) Ptolemaic Period, 332 - 30 BCE
Selected Examples:

Temple at Edfu
Temple at Kom-Ombo
Temple at Philae
Temple at Dendera

D. The Japan category includes the following sites all located in the central portion of the country. Supplemental Reference: the Swan-Hellenic Art Treasure Tour of Japan No. 28.

1) Southern Central section includes:

a) Toba/Ise
b) Nara
c) Kyoto

2) Northern Central section includes:

a) Kanazawa
b) Hakone
c) Kamakura
d) Matsumoto
e) Takayama
f) Mt. Fuji
g) Nikko
h) Tokyo

E. The fifth category is birds.

1) In my opinion flying birds probably are the most beautiful and elegant creatures on this earth. I never get tired of looking at them and trying to photograph them. Almost all my pictures are a result of my being in the right spot at the right time, in other words, luck! I usually don't stalk the birds, nor do I use a blind, and I am not an "early bird riser". In fact, many of my pictures were taken at the "crack of noon". In my opinion, bird photography should be fun, not a challenge.

2) The primary reference resource for the bird identifications was the National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, Third Edition.

F. The New Zealand category consists of scenic views of New Zealand plus a number of bird images. The category is divided into three collections. Reference: Manu Tours of New Zealand:

1. Scenes of New Zealand and the start of the bird image collection
2. Representative bird images
3. Representative bird images

G. The Rome category consists of two collections. The reference for the Rome category is "The History of Architecture on the Comparative Method" by Sir Banister Fletcher, 15th Edition.

1. Images of Ancient Rome, including a short supplement entitled "Quadriga", which is appended to the Ancient Rome category. The Quadriga collection has images from Rome, Berlin, Vienna, Madrid and Venice
2. Baroque Rome