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  • Destinations
    • England
      • London
      • Newcastle-upon-Tyne
    • Europe
      • Albania
      • Austria
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      • 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
        • Colombia
        • 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
      • Nature Photo Challenge
      • 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 Trios
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  • About me
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  • Art,  Lens-Artists,  Photographic techniques,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: playing around with effects from Enlight

    November 29, 2020 / 29 Comments
    Manipulated photo of cornflowers and moon

    When you press the shutter on your camera you capture a fleeting moment, and when you share the photograph with others you share that moment. If you play around with a photo enough, it will end up very far from where it started, and yet a trace of that moment remains.

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    Man and dog on a bench

    Recycled Spirits of Iron (Ex Nihilo)

    May 20, 2021

    Gallery: encountering elephants in London parks

    July 6, 2021
    Man in a brown hat with a feather

    Shanti Arts: inspired by world travel

    June 9, 2021
  • Culture & tradition,  DPRK,  Friendly Friday,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: dancing on the streets of Pyongyang

    November 28, 2020 / 28 Comments
    Large group of dancers in traditional Korean green dress

    Only in North Korea, I thought, could you have a day of sightseeing like this! It was the country’s National Day, marking the 71st anniversary of the founding of the DPRK, and our itinerary for the day had been carefully planned to allow us to see how Pyongyangites celebrated the occasion.

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    Close-up of head sculpted in bronze

    Purple Haze: remembering Jimi Hendrix

    July 30, 2021
    Small squat tree in a dry stony landscape

    Dhofar, the Land of Frankincense

    May 11, 2022
    Door knocker in the shape of a lizard

    Gallery: the door knockers of Cartagena

    April 29, 2023
  • Culture & tradition,  History,  Italy

    The Palio della Balestra in Gubbio: a centuries-old tradition

    November 26, 2020 / 23 Comments
    Looking over an Italian hill town

    Gubbio took a little while to weave its spell on me. When I first started to explore it seemed simply an old and attractive Italian town perched invitingly on a hillside, like so many others. Then I attended the Palio, the festival of the crossbow fighters, a centuries-old tradition.

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    Cobbled street of colourful houses

    Gallery: Guatapé, town of the zócalos

    April 11, 2023
    Little boy and two little girls in Japanese costume

    Celebrating childhood at the shrines of Japan

    April 25, 2021
    Small town beneath a forested hillside

    Meeting Maximón, the idol of Santiago Atitlàn

    December 13, 2020
  • Landscape,  Lens-Artists,  Travel galleries,  Washington State

    Gallery: on the Hall of Mosses trail

    November 24, 2020 / 17 Comments
    Tall trees, lots of ferns

    The Hoh rainforest is an ancient, almost enchanted place, green and mysterious. Some of its trees have stood here for over a thousand years, long before European explorers came to this continent. Draped with mosses and ferns they seem to stand outside time; a haven of stillness in an ever-shifting world.

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    Ducks landing on a lake

    Summer in East Anglia

    August 10, 2022
    Rain spattered window with blurred landscape

    Learning to dance in the rain: Iceland’s Golden Circle

    October 23, 2021
    Rocky landscape with outcrop of stone pillars

    Around the world in ten photos: day nine

    December 26, 2020
  • Friendly Friday,  Landscape,  Travel galleries,  Washington State

    Gallery: a snowy walk in Paradise

    November 21, 2020 / 16 Comments
    Snow scene with pine trees and mountain

    If you call a place ‘Paradise’ it had better be somewhere special! Luckily this area of Mount Rainier National Park really does live up to the name bestowed on it by Virinda Longmire in 1885. When she first saw this spot, carpeted with wildflowers, she is said to have exclaimed, ‘Oh, what a paradise!’

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    Banner heading with photo of African man

    Friendly Friday: meet Cheikh, a guide in Senegal

    July 16, 2021
    Close-up of head sculpted in bronze

    Purple Haze: remembering Jimi Hendrix

    July 30, 2021
    Two men in a rowing boat

    Keeping North Korea clean and beautiful

    March 13, 2021
  • Colour,  England,  Thursday Doors,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: colourful beach huts in Whitstable and Broadstairs

    November 20, 2020 / 20 Comments
    Wooden hut painted in candy stripes

    Brightly coloured beach huts are a quintessential part of the British seaside. Along with ice cream, sandcastles, fish and chips and the unpredictable weather they evoke childhood memories for many of us of summer by the sea.

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    Row of impala drinking from a river

    Monochrome in colour: creating an impact

    November 1, 2020
    Round blue ceramic roof tile with a dragon image

    Gallery: feeling the blues, again

    December 16, 2022
    Blue and turquoise mosaic

    Gallery: feeling the blues

    November 11, 2021
  • Architecture,  Art,  Rajasthan,  Ruins

    The Palace of Bundi: Kipling’s ‘work of goblins’

    November 18, 2020 / 7 Comments
    Lake with palace on the hill beyond

    ‘The Palace of Bundi, even in broad daylight, is such a palace as men built for themselves in uneasy dreams, the work of goblins rather than of men.’ So said Rudyard Kipling of Bundi Palace. Also known as Garh Palace, it was home to the rulers of Bundi for centuries.

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    Yellow Victorian house

    Gallery: the Painted Ladies of Cape May

    October 10, 2020
    Red crumbling ruins

    ‘Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!’

    August 12, 2021
    Large square with historic buildings and tourists

    In ancient Bhaktapur, a royal capital

    November 24, 2022
  • Lens-Artists,  London

    Found in the neighbourhood: some lockdown discoveries

    November 16, 2020 / 21 Comments
    River with small white boat moored

    I have lived in Ealing for 39 years, and in our present home in South Ealing for 34 years, but I never knew until very recently that Margot Fonteyn lived near here, or that Agatha Christie’s parents are buried in our local cemetery. I didn’t know that Spencer Walpole, who was Home Secretary under three different Tory governments in the mid-19th century, is also buried there.

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    View of city rooftops and a large white church

    Celebrating birthdays abroad, near and far

    April 3, 2022
    Cheetah head and shoulders

    With the beautiful Africat cheetahs in Namibia

    May 16, 2021
    Scruffy looking shop in wood

    Our Land of Enchantment: the scenic byways of New Mexico

    July 25, 2021
  • Friendly Friday,  History,  Italy

    Postcards from the past: a small town in Italy

    November 14, 2020 / 14 Comments
    View down to an Italian town square and hills beyond

    Towards the end of the 19th century, one of many Italian families to leave their home town to seek their fortunes in England was the Quaglieri family from Arpino. They settled in Newcastle as did several other families from that region of Italy.

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    Forest in the mist

    Barking up the right tree in Costa Rica

    March 4, 2022
    Rain spattered window with blurred landscape

    Learning to dance in the rain: Iceland’s Golden Circle

    October 23, 2021
    Banner with two small photos

    Friendly Friday Challenge: leading lines

    May 6, 2022
  • Architecture,  New York City

    On the Top of the Rock – twice!

    November 13, 2020 / 19 Comments
    View of New York City

    It's impossible to imagine New York City without its skyscrapers, and it's equally impossible to imagine visiting the city without going up at least one of those skyscrapers to see the view from the top. The obvious choice might seem to be the Empire State Building but … maybe you should think again.

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    View of a city with winding river and skyscrapers

    Gallery: London from the top of the Shard

    May 28, 2023
    View over group of brick temples with tiered tiled roofs

    A walk in Patan, the City of Beauty

    February 1, 2023
    Street of traditional Japanese houses

    Gallery: the merchant houses of Takayama

    September 23, 2020
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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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