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  • Destinations
    • England
      • London
      • Newcastle-upon-Tyne
    • Europe
      • Austria
      • Bulgaria
      • Estonia
      • France
        • Paris
      • Germany
      • Iceland
      • Italy
      • Jersey
      • Latvia
      • Norway
      • Portugal
      • Spain
        • Seville
      • Switzerland
      • Ukraine
    • Beyond
      • Africa
        • Botswana
        • Cape Verde
        • Gambia
        • Kenya
        • Morocco
        • Namibia
        • Senegal
        • Tanzania
        • Zimbabwe
      • Americas
        • Belize
        • Canada
        • Chile
          • Rapa Nui
        • Costa Rica
        • Ecuador
          • Galapagos Islands
        • Guatemala
        • Jamaica
        • USA
          • New Mexico
          • New York City
          • Washington State
      • Asia
        • DPRK
        • India
          • Kerala
          • Rajasthan
        • Indochina
          • Cambodia
          • Laos
          • Vietnam
        • Japan
        • Nepal
        • Oman
        • Syria
        • United Arab Emirates
        • Uzbekistan
  • Themes
    • Architecture
    • Art
      • Crafts
      • Street art
    • Colour
    • Dark tourism
    • Eco-tourism
    • Food & drink
    • Gardens
    • History
      • Ruins
      • War
    • Landscape
      • Coast & seascapes
      • Deserts
      • Mountains
      • Rivers
    • Nature and wildlife
      • Animals
      • Birds
      • Plants
        • Flowers
        • Trees, forests and woodland
    • People
      • Culture & tradition
      • Street photography
    • Travel in general
  • Photo galleries
    • Themed galleries
    • Travel galleries
  • Postcards from the road
  • Challenges
    • Photography challenges
      • Just One Person
      • Lens-Artists
      • Mid-week Monochrome
      • Monochrome Madness
      • One Word Sunday
      • Photographing Public Art
      • Pick a Word
      • Squares
      • Sunday Stills
      • The Changing Seasons
      • Words of Wisdom
      • Cee’s challenges
        • CBWC
        • CFFC
        • CMMC
    • General challenges
      • Monday walks
      • Writers’ Quotes Wednesday
    • Challenges archive
      • Bird Weekly
      • Friendly Friday
        • The Friendly Friday Challenge: how to join in
      • Friday’s Foods of the World
      • Life in Colour
      • One-to-Three
      • Ten photos
      • Thursday Doors
      • Thursday Trios
  • About me
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    • ‘Always Write’ interview
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africa architecture art birds black_&_white bulgaria cambodia cffc chile churches cities colour costa_rica dprk ealing england flowers france friendlyfriday Friendly_Friday history india just_one_person_from_around_the_world landscape lens-artists Lens_Artists_Challenge london Monday_Walks mountains nepal new_mexico north_korea paris people photography photo_effects PPAC rivers ruins Street_Art Street_Photography Sunday_Stills usa village wildlife
  • Friendly Friday,  London

    A neighbourhood walk

    October 31, 2020 / 7 Comments
    Squirrel with a conker in his mouth

    When the architect Sir John Soane built his weekend retreat, Pitzhanger Manor, in what was then rural Ealing, his aim was to design a showcase for his own idiosyncratic architectural style with its stripped classical detail, radical colour schemes and inventive use of space and light. Here he would entertain some of the most influential people of the day.

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    Banner with two photos

    Friendly Friday Challenge: all or nothing?

    August 12, 2022
    Large group of teenagers

    My first taste of adventure: a 1970s camping trip

    August 14, 2021
    Looking down at snowy mountains from a plane

    Gallery: it’s a wonderful world, from above

    November 5, 2021
  • Dark tourism,  Gambia,  History,  People

    Roots: dark history or tourist trap?

    October 29, 2020 / 11 Comments
    Painting of young slave

    As our boat neared the jetty some village children ran to meet us. Whether in excitement at the break in the routine of the day, or in expectation that tourists meant tips, I wasn't sure - probably a mix of the two. I couldn't help but reflect how differently the boats docking here would have been greeted in the past.

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    Stone statue of man in an overcoat

    A visit to Sofia’s Socialist Art Museum

    October 10, 2022
    Relief carvings of battle scenes

    So who did start the Korean War?

    September 15, 2020
    Black and white photo of sculptures of two women, one a soldier

    The Monument to the Soviet Army in Sofia

    October 22, 2022
  • Landscape,  Lens-Artists,  Travel galleries,  Zimbabwe

    Gallery: Victoria Falls – what a treat

    October 27, 2020 / 19 Comments
    Bridge and rainbow from the air

    The indigenous name for Victoria Falls is Mosi-oa-Tunya or The Smoke that Thunders, and it is a fitting name. The constant spray is as thick as smoke, and the roar of the water is indeed like thunder.

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    Tall trees, lots of ferns

    Gallery: on the Hall of Mosses trail

    November 24, 2020
    Mountains reflected in a lake

    Gallery: double the pleasure

    July 12, 2022
    Mountain road with car on verge

    Following the High Road to Taos

    February 14, 2021
  • Friendly Friday,  Photographic techniques

    Smoke and mirrors

    October 25, 2020 / 25 Comments
    Edited image of Ankor Wat, with reflection added

    Some say the camera never lies. But does it? Even before technology made it possible to alter reality, photographers were playing around with tricks and illusions. Today it is easier than ever to edit an image; to fool the viewer into seeing something that was never there, or not seeing something that was.

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    Looking down at snowy mountains from a plane

    Gallery: it’s a wonderful world, from above

    November 5, 2021
    View down to an Italian town square and hills beyond

    Postcards from the past: a small town in Italy

    November 14, 2020
    Aerial view of green swampland with river channels

    Video: flying to the Okavango Delta

    February 27, 2021
  • Architecture,  Estonia,  Thursday Doors,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: the doors of Tallinn

    October 24, 2020 / 25 Comments
    Ornate door and building

    What is it that makes so many doors and windows beg to be photographed? Is it that they intrigue us by hinting at what might lie beyond, if we were to open them? Or more simply, that they provide decoration and interest to what would otherwise be blank walls?

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    Small boats on a river with grassy banks and old buildings

    A sunny day out in Cambridge, part one

    July 19, 2022
    Red sandstone palace buildings and pool

    ‘He keepeth a great court’: Fatehpur Sikri

    March 26, 2021
    Three large highly decorated buildings around a central square

    Gallery: building in threes

    May 13, 2022
  • Culture & tradition,  Dark tourism,  DPRK,  History,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: mosaic portraits of a dynasty

    October 21, 2020 / 11 Comments
    Two large mosaics with portraits of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il

    The people of North Korea are not so very different from those of every other country. Like people the world over they want to feel safe, to be in good health, to have the basic necessities of life. If they have children, they want the same for them and they want them to thrive and do well in their lives.

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    Couple in traditional Lao dress

    Gallery: wedding couples around the world

    July 9, 2022
    Elaborately decorated table

    Eating like honoured guests in North Korea

    December 30, 2021
    Blacksmith crouching

    A village blacksmith in the Lao highlands

    March 10, 2021
  • Culture & tradition,  History,  Rapa Nui

    Rapa Nui: the mystery of the moai

    October 18, 2020 / 17 Comments
    Row of moai

    ‘We could hardly conceive how these islanders, wholly unacquainted with any mechanical power, could raise such stupendous figures’

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    Colourful manhole cover

    Gallery: the humble manhole cover as public art

    June 22, 2021
    Faded photo of a large statue and old apartments behind

    Where Lenin once pointed the way to …?

    February 5, 2021
    Stone and wood built temple surround a square with children and pigeons

    In Kathmandu’s Durbar Square

    November 19, 2022
  • Friendly Friday,  Travel in general

    Travel dreams

    October 16, 2020 / 13 Comments
    Blue glacier edge

    I am passionate about travelling and at the moment, when travel is on hold, I am naturally dreaming of where I will go when we can all travel again.

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    Sun setting over the sea

    Gallery: enjoying serene views in Costa Rica

    February 19, 2022
    Large elephant walking towards camera

    Elephant encounter: flashback to our first safari

    June 26, 2021
    Two men in a rowing boat

    Keeping North Korea clean and beautiful

    March 13, 2021
  • England,  Ruins

    ‘Baptised in the blood of so many good men’

    October 13, 2020 / 14 Comments
    Ruins of a church

    'Here terrible portents came about over the land of Northumbria, and miserably frightened the people: there were flashes of lightning, and fiery dragons were seen flying in the air.'

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    Three large sculptures in a landscape

    Gallery: the Yorkshire Sculpture Park

    September 4, 2021
    Bright pink daisy-like flower

    Gallery: a May selection

    June 2, 2022
    Large flying horse made of disjointed metal parts

    Radical Horizons: the Art of Burning Man at Chatsworth

    August 27, 2022
  • Architecture,  History,  Travel galleries,  USA

    Gallery: the Painted Ladies of Cape May

    October 10, 2020 / 22 Comments
    Yellow Victorian house

    Until I visited, all my images of New Jersey came from song lyrics - Paul Simon's traffic-clogged turnpike and Bruce Springsteen's urban working class childhood.

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    Ornate marble pillars holding up carved ceilings

    Chaumukha Mandir, the four-faced temple of Ranakpur

    March 1, 2021
    Three large highly decorated buildings around a central square

    Gallery: building in threes

    May 13, 2022
    Closed sign on a shop door

    Gallery: when one door closes …

    June 20, 2022
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Some favourite photos

Man in a turban with fishing nets
Fisherman in Fort Kochi, Kerala
Two elephants in long grass
Okavango elephants
Blue glacier edge
Glacier Grey, Torres del Paine, Chile
Elderly woman in black hat and sunglasses
In Santiago, Chile
Very large statues of North Korean Leaders
Statues of the Great Leaders on Mansudae Hill, Pyongyang
Water reflecting the sky with clouds and low sun
Approaching sunset in the Okavango Delta
Feet of huge metal sculpture, with man standing beside
The feet of the Angel
Large moai with row of more behind
The ‘travelling moai’ and Ahu Tongariki
Man in knitted hat by water, black and white photo
Waiting for the ferry, Banjul
Mountain reflected in a lake
On the road to Dyrholaey
Sunset at Wahiba Sands, Oman
Squirrel with a conker in his mouth
In Walpole Park, Ealing
Silhouette of a man in a gateway
Looking out from Bundi Palace
Blue and pink bird on a dead tree
Lilac-breasted Roller, Chobe NP, Botswana
Buddhist monk in orange robes with mobile phone
Monk at Wat Nong Sikhounmuang, Luang Prabang
Man sleeping in a tuk tuk by a carved stone wall
Tuk tuk driver by the Terrace of the Leper King
Close up of flamingo with head tucked under
Flamingo (Jersey Zoo)
Lady with baskets of fruit sitting by a canal
In Hoi An, Vietnam
Small fishing boat with a man in it, on a large lake
Lake Atitlan
Wet street and two people with bright pink umbrella
Street in Lucca, rainy day – edited

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