Dr Tony Shaw

The Delacorte Theater in Central Park, Manhattan is the home of 'Shakespeare in the Park', the performances of which are in the su...

In the early stages of this blog I used to take the 'Obscure' in the title perhaps a little too literally, and my post on our vi...

Close to the Alice in Wonderland statue – just slightly to the west of the Conservatory Water – is this tribute to the Danish author Han...

Immediately north of the Conservatory Water in Central Park, and commissioned by George Delacorte, is Alice in Wonderland by José de Cre...

This is just the kind of eccentricity that appeals to me. Eugene Schieffelin, a wealthy drug manufacturer, intended to introduce into the St...

I may have taken all of these images of New York City, although I'd have been unaware of the existence of most of them without Kevin W...