Rise Through Education monument by Lorenzo Quinn near Aspire Academy. Doha, Qatar, March 8, 2012
Academy of The Sacred Heart (the Rosary house) at 4521 Saint Charles Avenue at rain. New Orleans, Louisiana, October 27, 2006
Silk floss tree (Chorisia speciosa, Ceiba speciosa, baobab family) in a park of Aspire Academy. Doha, Qatar, March 8, 2012
Academy of The Sacred Heart (the Rosary house) at 4521 Saint Charles Avenue at evening. New Orleans, Louisiana, February 17, 2005.
Building of Academy of Sciences at 5 Universitetskaya Embankment. Saint Petersburg, Russia, December 18, 2016
Academy of Saint Basil on Church Street. Plaquemine, Louisiana, January 7, 2007
Evariste Blanc House (1834), Our Lady of the Rosary Rectory (Holy Rosary Academy) at 1342 East Moss Street in Bayou Saint John neighborhood. New Orleans, Louisiana, June 29, 2006
Mikhaylov Military Artillery Academy from Voznesenskaya Embankment. Saint Petersburg, Russia, January 10, 2017
View of Lieutenant Shmidt Bridge, Academy of Arts and Menshikovskiy Palace from Angliyskaya Embankment. Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 13, 1999.
Military Medical Academy at Lebedeva Street. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 22, 2016
Collegia of Foreign Affairs - Academy of General Staff at 31 Angliyskaya Embankment. Saint Petersburg, Russia, December 17, 2016
Saint Petersburg State Forestry University (often referred to historically as the Forestry Academy or Lesotekhnicheskaya Akademiya). Established in 1803 by decree of Emperor Alexander I as the Practical Forestry School in Tsarskoye Selo. In 1811, it was moved to its current location in the Vyborgsky District of Saint Petersburg, occupying the site of an old English dairy farm. The classical white building shown in the photo is the Main Educational Building. Originally constructed as four separate corps between 1826 and 1833 by architects I.F. Lucchini and A. Nellinger, these were later united into a single complex with a central courtyard in the late 1830s. Lesnoy Park (Lesotekhnicheskiy Universitet), Saint Petersburg, Russia, October 14, 2025
Maple alley near the Forestry Academy. Lesnoy Park (Lesotekhnicheskiy Universitet), Saint Petersburg, Russia, October 14, 2025
Maple alley near a building of the Forestry Academy. Lesnoy Park (Lesotekhnicheskiy Universitet), Saint Petersburg, Russia, October 14, 2025
Fall colors of maple alley near the Forestry Academy. Lesnoy Park (Lesotekhnicheskiy Universitet), Saint Petersburg, Russia, October 14, 2025
A quiet, historic section of Rataskaevu Street, just up from the well-known Cat s Well. The large bronze relief on the yellow wall to the left (Rataskaevu 10) is a memorial to Voldemar Panso (1920-1977), a legendary Estonian actor, director, and drama teacher. The building houses the Drama School of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, which Panso founded. The relief, created by sculptor Jaak Soans in 1979, depicts Panso s profile emerging from the "stage curtain" of the wall. The building at Rataskaevu 22 (just beyond the Panso relief) is historically significant as the former home of the renowned Renaissance painter Michel Sittow (c. 1469-1525). He was born in Tallinn (then Reval) and became a court portraitist for European royalty, including Isabella of Castile and Henry VII of England. The street features well-preserved medieval merchant houses with their characteristic high gables and hoist beams (used for lifting goods into storage lofts). The narrow, cobblestone path winds gently uphill, creating an intimate atmosphere distinct from the wider commercial streets below. Tallinn, Estonia, October 16, 2025
