@susanncokal helpfully writes about posing in Gothic architecture for our winter issue, accompanied by this gorgeous capture by @lasorgentepagana. Get the single issue or subscribe at the links in bio! 🦇 "When you vacation among the cathedrals and ruins of Europe or even spend the night in a stateside Victorian B&B, it is natural to feel a certain anxiety: How will you preserve this time in a photo? Grinning with your bestie, making rabbit ears behind her head? Not you. You want to enter the spirit of the architecture the way you’d pass through a door—as you pass through a door—and celebrate, with your posing, the glories of the Gothic." and "You don’t have to pray to pose in a Gothic arch. Just stand tall at first. Think pointy. You are an elongated statue carved on the tympanum over the door; you are the ribbed ridges on the vaulted ceiling. You are the mysteries of the universe and creation. You might try a bit of yoga here, with your palms meeting over your head, your fierce lion breath grinding through your nasal cavity like an invasion and a release. "Breathe deep. Stand on tiptoes and reach for the future. Then bend gently sideways at the waist. Try lifting a leg and twisting it. Surprise yourself. Let each pose show that you will try new things. Remember that twisting at the waist can improve your digestion. And that spreading your arms like wings is another means of completing the shape, as well as displaying your medieval sleeves. "The arch may have broken, but it opened a new world. And here is a new you. Arching."