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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
        • 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
      • Thursday Doors
  • About me
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  • Coast & seascapes,  England,  Sunday Stills,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: at the edge of England

    November 11, 2020 / 24 Comments
    Old boat and rail track on a shingle beach

    For those who like a coastline to be photogenic rather than picturesque, and who are more interested in exploring than lying on a beach, Dungeness is close to perfect. But don’t come here expecting to swim, to eat ice cream and to make sandcastles. Dungeness is for fishermen, walkers, photographers and lovers of the wild and windswept. Oh, and it just happens to be Britain’s only desert.

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    Rocky beach and palm trees

    On the Pacific coast in Drake Bay

    February 28, 2022
    Rocky coastline

    Stunning landscapes of Iceland: the day the sun shone

    October 29, 2021
    Back of whale with mountainous coast behind

    Thar she blows – eventually!

    July 7, 2021
  • Landscape,  Lens-Artists,  Photographic techniques

    The sun will come out tomorrow (and I will photograph it)

    November 9, 2020 / 17 Comments
    Water reflecting the sky with clouds and low sun

    When I was about ten I was given my first camera, a Kodak Brownie. And my father, himself quite a keen photographer, taught me a few of the basic rules of photography. The most important of these was, you must always have the sun behind you when you shoot. Sorry, Dad, but that’s just not true!

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    Blue lake and distant mountains

    Gallery: I want to meet you in the big sky country

    February 27, 2022
    Mountain road with car on verge

    Following the High Road to Taos

    February 14, 2021
    Dark orange car in front of orange rocky landscape

    Road Trippin’ USA: a Brit’s perspective

    July 26, 2022
  • Culture & tradition,  Italy,  People,  Street photography,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: Comic and Games festival in Lucca

    November 8, 2020 / 15 Comments
    Two men in fancy dress

    For three days we had wandered the streets of the ancient walled city of Lucca. It was all very laid-back and very Italian. Then on the last day of our stay, everything changed...

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    Little boy and two little girls in Japanese costume

    Celebrating childhood at the shrines of Japan

    April 25, 2021
    Small squat tree in a dry stony landscape

    Dhofar, the Land of Frankincense

    May 11, 2022
    Tiles painted with a bull's head

    Gallery: Majolica, the ceramic tiles of Seville

    November 27, 2021
  • Colour,  Friendly Friday,  Photographic techniques

    Two ways: black and white or colour?

    November 6, 2020 / 20 Comments
    Two elephants in long grass in black and white

    'There is only one way to see things, until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes.' (Pablo Picasso)

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    Lots of metal lanterns hanging

    Gallery: all that glitters is not gold (or silver)

    December 15, 2021
    Colourful paper lanterns at night

    Gallery: let there be light

    September 21, 2021
    Rock stack in the mist

    Gallery: how many shades of grey?

    January 16, 2023
  • History,  New Mexico,  People

    In search of Billy the Kid

    November 5, 2020 / 12 Comments
    Gable of brick building surrounded by trees

    On the vast plains of New Mexico, with their huge skies, and more cattle than people, it is not difficult to imagine a cowboy galloping over the nearest ridge. And wherever you go in this state, the ghosts of outlaws past will follow you, most notably Billy the Kid.

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    Rock with petroglyphs of animals

    Reading messages from the past

    January 29, 2023
    Street of traditional Japanese houses

    Gallery: the merchant houses of Takayama

    September 23, 2020
    Part of a cathedral with blue skies

    Catedral de Santa María de la Sede: Seville’s cathedral

    January 15, 2022
  • Lens-Artists,  Photographic techniques,  Street photography

    Focus on the subject: Street photography

    November 2, 2020 / 16 Comments
    Man walking past wall with mural

    In street photography the moment is everything; press the shutter too soon, or too late, and as Cartier-Bresson said, the moment is lost.

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    Orthodox cathedral at the end of a wide street

    Gallery: Sofia’s St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral

    March 7, 2021
    Bee on a yellow flower

    Gallery: it’s all in the details

    May 2, 2021
    Abstract view of sparkling blue water

    Gallery: water, water everywhere …

    February 20, 2022
  • CFFC,  Colour,  Photographic techniques

    Monochrome in colour: creating an impact

    November 1, 2020 / 14 Comments
    Row of impala drinking from a river

    In photography the word ‘monochrome’ is usually used to describe black and white images. But although all black and white photos are monochrome photos, not all monochrome photos have to be black and white.

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    Two flamingos feeding

    Gallery: reflecting on birds

    March 27, 2021
    Looking down a spiral staircase

    Gallery: the perfect simplicity of a spiral staircase

    October 10, 2021
    Large building with green oriental roof

    A look inside the Grand People’s Study House

    November 18, 2021

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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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