Andy Marshall
@fotofacade.bsky.social
Architectural Photographer on a camper-van-camino. 📸🚐🏛️ 🎨 Architecture, Art, Travel, History, Place, Material Culture, Genius Loci Digest. Links: https://www.digest.andymarshall.co/andy-marshall-bio/ Digest: https://www.digest.andymarshall.co
Sunday read: “ In an instant the scale of everything changes. The monumental crumbles and I find myself being held by something that occupies only a few inches of stone. 👉
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 28 August 26
What existed in the landscape as strata and outcrop has been quarried, squared, carved and reassembled into columns and arches. For a moment, here in the nave, the distinction between building and landscape begins to blur.
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🤔💺Fancy a bit of armchair travel this Bank Holiday weekend? ✨Come with me from Rudston to Lastingham - a photographic field journey across Yorkshire, with a dynamic map, field notes and discoveries along the way.
Rudston to Lastingham
A two-day photographic journey from the Yorkshire coast into the North York Moors, ending at Lastingham.
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🤔Not for everyone, but If you ❤️ places like Lincoln, and comforted by continuity, you might like my Genius Loci Digest. A photographer's camper-van-camino through the historic gems of the British Isles. Posted weekly. 🔗 Subscribe for free here: http://digest.andyma...
📝 Field Notes from my Camper-van-camino: The Delightful Vernacular Buildings of Chipping in Lancashire. www.digest.andymarsh...
✨ A special one for Friday: the day I met a host of angels in King's Lynn where holiness was in the the earth-song of the peeling paint and the arborescent echo from the fissured faces 👉 www.digest.andymarsh...
📍Follow my full mapped journey from Bridlington to Lastingham - through the astonishing ritual landscape of Rudston - plus: old inns, medieval churches and the North York Moors. Photographs, field notes and the road unfolding across the map: www.digest.andymarsh...
✨John Ruskin described Lincoln Cathedral as “out and out the most precious piece of architecture in the British Isles.” Its grandeur is unmatched, but the medieval Romanesque details - like the west front door - feel truly otherworldly, as if from another planet. 🪐
For around 4,500 years, the Rudston Monolith has stood within an ancient ritual landscape in the Yorkshire Wolds. Beside it, the medieval church of All Saints is a mere pup - a later chapter in a place held sacred for millennia.
Fancy a wander? I’ve been building new routes through the Digest archive - into photography, journeys, buildings, traditional skills, chance encounters and the question of why places matter. Choose a lens:
Through The Lens
Take the road less travelled
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📚 A bookish C17th monument to Francis Catesby at St. Mary, Hardmead in Buckinghamshire. He lies on a bed of books for eternity. A rather wonderful fate for anyone who has ever known the pleasure of being lost in one.
Simple things for Monday - divine door clasp at St. John the Evangelist, Elkstone in Gloucestershire
Looking for a gentler corner of the internet? Here's a collection of my latest photographs, field notes and stories exploring the hidden gems and spirit of place across historic Britain. 👉 www.digest.andymarsh...
📝 Field Notes from my Camper-van-camino: The remarkable St. Peter and St. Paul, Lavenham www.digest.andymarsh...
🗺️ 🌏 The world through my lens - the road less travelled - where will it take you? 😯 : 👉 www.digest.andymarsh...
✨ 🌱 From today's Digest: " The more I look, the more they appear. It feels as though a fuse has blown somewhere in the mechanics of nature and the magic veil has been removed." 👉 www.digest.andymarsh...
🗺️ 🌏 The world through my lens - the road less travelled - where will it take you? 😯 : 👉 www.digest.andymarsh...
📝 Field Notes from my Camper-van-camino: Frankwell, Ludlow a Church and a Pub www.digest.andymarsh...
Wow! 🤩
R Moore Building Conservation@rmbconservation.bsky.social · last wk.😯 🚪What a door! Among the many extraordinary details at Plas Newydd, Llangollen, this door has it all! Follow the link to see more of this remarkable building and discover the conservation work now taking place there: 👉 rmbconservation.co.uk/news-posts/c... #buildingconservation #heritage #skills
✨ 🌱 From today's Digest: " The more I look, the more they appear. It feels as though a fuse has blown somewhere in the mechanics of nature and the magic veil has been removed." 👉 www.digest.andymarsh...
✨ Stuck in a rut? There have been moments in my life when the world I thought I knew has suddenly opened up and revealed something else beyond it. My Mini-Caminos share some of those moments - in the hope they might inspire you too. 👉 www.digest.andymarsh...
What does a year in the life of an architectural photographer really look like? A year on the road shaped by photography, place, loss and grief - and the places that carried me through. Follow the journey here 👉 www.digest.andymarsh...
✨ Stuck in a rut? There have been moments in my life when the world I thought I knew has suddenly opened up and revealed something else beyond it. My Mini-Caminos share some of those moments - in the hope they might inspire you too. 👉 www.digest.andymarsh...
I still find asking for membership difficult. But shared support keeps my independent work alive, the Genius Loci Digest free, and free photography available to heritage places and craftspeople. If you've found value in my work, I'd be grateful for your support 👉 www.digest.andymarsh...
