The beauty of beetles

Day six of our Advent calendar and who knew that beetles could look so stylish: Macro photography at its best in Dirk Langenhan’s Wonderful Beetles calendar. We’re quite taken by the metallic sheen …

Vintage, baby

Just in case you’re looking for a Christmas gift for someone from Ilkeston or around, look no further: We’re opening door number five of the Calvendo Advent calendar to one of artist Stephen Millership’s vintage-style illustrations of Ilkeston. If you like what you see (we do!), there’s more in his Ilkeston, Past and Present calendar, a wonderful homage to his hometown in Derbyshire that he brought to life on our platform. Thanks, Stephen!

 

 

They do things differently, in Norway

It’s the second Sunday of Advent and door number four of our Advent calendar reveals a spectacular Norwegian church. Have you ever seen such a structure? We admit we hadn’t, before coming across our author Dirk Rosin’s Churches of Norway calendar which very nicely takes us into a hitherto unknown architectural world …