Peter Coffman

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Retired architectural historian. https://carleton.ca/aah/people/peter-coffman/ Photographer. Pilgrim. Occasionally a writer. Chief of Staff to two cats. Photos mine unless otherwise credited.

A black & white image of a wooden lighthouse at the upper right, with a sunlit wooden boardwalk leading diagonally towards it from the bottom left, on a rock with scrubby vegetation in the foreground and clear sky and a dark sea behind.
An elegant sailboat skims across somewhat choppy, deep blue waters with gentles hills visible through mist in the background.
A brilliantly lit, rough textured grave slab reading “Mackenzie King” seems to float in a sea of blackness, with the corner of another grave marker just visible at the upper edge of the frame.
A large but simple wooden shed, in a very poor state of repair, sits on stilts above the edge of the sea at low tide.The shingled walls are disintegrating, especially around the bottom, and the stilts thrust upward to support a long-gone platform in front of the main façade.
A tall, simple, white framed rectangular window in a brick wall with a rufous cat sitting inside looking straight at the viewer.
A musician with close-cropped hair and beard sings into a microphone and gazes into the distance.
A singer holding a guitar viewed in profile, leaning back with eyes closed in front of a backdrop of bold green and off-white stripes.
A banjo player, fiddler and acoustic guitarist share a stage.
Two acoustic guitarists share a stage.
A five-piece band of guitar, vocals, drums, bass and keyboards performs under a striped tent.
Two acoustic guitarists share a stage.
A singer shown in profile, eyes closed while belting out a tune into a mic.
A female musician with red hair and glasses plays an acoustic guitar and sings into a microphone.
A five-piece band with guitars, drums and bass share a stage.
A male vocalist with glasses and a baseball cap closes his eyes as he sings into a microphone.
Three musicians perform on a stage in the background; in the foreground sits a row uf spectators under umbrellas.
An animated female vocalist in brightly multi-coloured clothing grabs the mic by the neck and belts it out.
Frontal view of a six-piece band consisting of accordion, fiddle, cello, guitar, vocalist, and upright bass.
Two acoustic guitarists perform on stage beneath bold diagonal stripes of the stage tent.
A four-piece band of keyboardist, guitarist, drummer and bass player performs under the dramatic diagonal lines of a tent.
A four-piece band onstage, consisting of a drummer, two guitarists and a bass player.
A bearded singer in a stetson speaks into a microphone.
A female singer dresses mostly in black against a white background looks upward as she leans into a microphone.
View from behind a band onstage toward a very large and densely packed outdoor audience.
a broad expanse of old-style military buildings spreads across a landscape that slopes up from the foreground sea, visually anchored by a central tower and spire.
View through a multi-paned window to a gleaming, wet wharf, with metal machinery fixed to one side and wooden buildings in the background and mountains in the distance.
View from behind a performer on stage, toward the audience. He is wearing a red shirt and playing a guitar, while the audience spreads out in front of him in a beautiful green park.
Black and white image of a gleaming wite lighthouse with a gothic, pointed-arch doorway, against a dark sky and framed by dark foliage.
A singer with a goatee, dressed in a red and white polka-dot shirt, tilts his head and leans into the microphone, his face bathed in warm late afternoon sunlight, with a deep green background.
A tapering, white wooden lighthouse tower with a blunt top (lantern long since lost), brightly lit by the summer sun, is viewed from across dark water against a dark sky in a black & white image.
Black and white image of a gleaming wite lighthouse with a gothic, pointed-arch doorway, against a dark sky and framed by dark foliage.
A tall, brick-red wooden grain elevator, viewed from an oblique angle, is silhouetted against a mostly white, expansive prairie sky. In the distance are two other grain related structures, barely visible. In the foreground is a diagonal path along the ground that used to be a rail line.
A dark brown wooden door with an elaborate, curvilinear black iron hinge spreading line tendrils across the surface,
Three spires, two with intricate ornament and a third more plain, glimpsed in the distance through leafy trees.
Oblique view of a brick façade decorated with bands of ornate terracotta tiles.
A Gothic town hall with ornate detail and a tall, multi-tiered pointed central tower and spire forms one side of a large public square, with a picturesque row of ornate commercial buildings forming a second side.
A fragmented colonnade of 8 Doric columns sits on a distant hillside with foliage (and one low building) in the foreground, and more hills in the distance.
View through a window and covered porch into torrential rain.
A beaver in profile floats calmly in rippling water of jade-green.
A complex masonry façade with broad, flat planes and sharp angles rises like a mountain above a city street. On top is a skeletal steel tower.
A complex wooden building forming the outline of a traditional northwest coast longhouse, with one half of solid wood wall and the other an openwork screen. Large round medallions with indigenous designs ornament each half.
A deep red grain elevator towers above a flat landscape against a blank sky.
A jumble of oblong spatial units of light concrete come together like a complex jigsaw puzzle to form a lively and varied ensemble sitting above a body of water.
A small but imposing polychrome masonry building of rough hammer-dressed stone with triple arched windows on the end façade and a gabled entrance on the dide.
A monumental red sandstone building of picturesque silhouette with steep gables on each side and a tall, thick clock tower in the corner.
A simple wooden church with a pointed tower is lit by the autumn sun amongst tombstones littered with fallen fall foliage.
A broad, low building with a shallow dome nestles like a landed flying saucer among rock and trees with water in the background.
A monumental grouping of simple, gabled buildings towers above a cityscape of mostly smaller wooden buildings painted in bright colours.
A winding, brightly sunlit path leads to a lighthouse sitting on a rock beneath a dark sky with wispy clouds.
A monolithic white building with an undulating, curvilinear white wall sits like an iceberg beneath a dark sky.
A modern building in a traditional northwest coast longhouse style, with a shallow gable and a central frontal carved pole. Much of the façade wall is glass.
A large, broad masonry building sits in the distance with trees in the foreground and mountains behind.
A curved glass skyscraper of bluish hue on the left is adjacent to a more conventionally angular skyscraper dominated by the reddish hues of what appears to be brick. A narrow band of clear sky separates them from an irregular edge of another modern skyscraper with a curved, tapering edge as it rises upward.
A square in a very old town, surrounded by simple but digified stone buildings, with shaded seating space and adjacent parking space.
A small group of columns supports a fragment of a full entablature at what was once the corner of a Doric building. Only the corner remains.
A scale model of what was a colossal greek Doric temple.
Several incomplete columns with pronounces entasis (tapering) sit in the distance with dense tree and scrub cover in the foreground and rolling hills behind.
A partially ruined Greek temple sits atop a hill with deep green vegetation in the foreground, all lit by the warm, intense Mediterranean sun.
A well-preserved Doric temple is brightly sunlit on an arid strip of land with trees in the foreground and a town behind.
Diagonal view from one cloister walk to another, the arcades resting on delicate twinned shafts with colourful mosaic inlay.