When I climbed to the roof of the Duomo do Milano and looked through the layers of intricate gothic stone carvings at the streets below, all I could think was that it looked like lace. I had a similar impression of the Doge’s Palace in Venice and, most recently, of the Alhambra Palace in Granada. 
In contrast, the carvings in Alhambra did not look particularly dynamic. Instead, repeating patterns lead the eye to infinity, which, in fact, is one of the techniques of the muslim art that conveys the infinity of the universe. For close-ups of these patters, I used a telephoto lens to visually compress the perspective.
