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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
    • Contact me
    • ‘Always Write’ interview
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  • Culture & tradition,  Jamaica,  People

    One love: the rhythms of Jamaica

    December 30, 2020 / 8 Comments
    Yellow gable with image of Bob Marley

    Few would argue with the idea that the main contribution that Jamaica has made to international culture is its reggae music, and the man who did most to bring that to the world’s attention was Bob Marley. So it’s perhaps not surprising that he has achieved almost cult status on the island.

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    Man applying colourful face paint

    Gallery: a traditional Keralan Kathakali performance

    April 28, 2021
    Lady in pink head covering in front of grass roof

    A warm welcome in the Thar Desert

    February 11, 2021
    A man with a young girl on his shoulders

    Lunch with Mr Noon and his family

    January 13, 2023
  • CFFC,  New York City,  Street photography,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: on New York City’s streets

    December 28, 2020 / 12 Comments
    Man in a ticket office booth

    Where better to take candid street photos than New York City? It is one of my favourite cities, and has a buzz unequalled anywhere else I have visited. It is like being on a movie set. The skyscrapers and streets provide the perfect backdrop for the constant ebb and flow of people.

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    Looking down a spiral staircase

    Gallery: the perfect simplicity of a spiral staircase

    October 10, 2021
    Bright red berries

    Gallery: the colours of the season

    December 16, 2021
    Large building with green oriental roof

    A look inside the Grand People’s Study House

    November 18, 2021
  • Landscape,  Oman,  Ten photos

    Around the world in ten photos: day ten

    December 27, 2020 / 15 Comments
    Vista of barren rocky mountain landscape

    Standing here you feel on top of the world. You are standing at a height of 2,000 metres above sea level. Below you see the road, little more than a track, that you are to follow, winding down through an almost other-worldly volcanic landscape.

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    Looking down at snowy mountains from a plane

    Gallery: it’s a wonderful world, from above

    November 5, 2021
    Large waterfall glimpsed through spray

    Mosi-oa-Tunya, the Smoke that Thunders

    December 8, 2021
    View of beach with icebergs and mountains beyond

    Glacier Grey – or should that be turquoise?

    January 1, 2021
  • Iceland,  Landscape,  Ten photos

    Around the world in ten photos: day nine

    December 26, 2020 / 10 Comments
    Rocky landscape with outcrop of stone pillars

    These hexagonal pillars look more man-made than natural. They are quite regular in size, creating the impression that they were somehow manufactured. In a sense they were, but by nature rather than man.

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    Rain spattered window with blurred landscape

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

    October 23, 2021
    Black beach with distant cliffs with a rock arch

    The black lava beach of Reynisfjara

    October 12, 2022
    Green Aurora

    On not seeing, and seeing, the Northern Lights

    October 7, 2020
  • Gardens,  Italy,  Ten photos

    Around the world in ten photos: day eight

    December 24, 2020 / 9 Comments
    Italianate garden with statues and a fountain

    This pretty garden, originally laid out by a wealthy silk merchant, later became a popular beer garden. The small palace to which it belongs bears the name of the brewer who once had his brewery in its cellars and is still owned by his descendants.

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    Statue of winged horse and horseman

    Gallery: the Jardins des Tuileries in the rain

    May 17, 2021
    Golden temple reflected in a lake

    Exploring the temple gardens of Kyoto

    May 9, 2021
    Half-timbered building seen above a hedge

    A misty morning visit to Stokesay Castle

    July 14, 2021
  • History,  Rajasthan,  Ten photos

    Around the world in ten photos: day seven

    December 23, 2020 / 13 Comments
    Intricate red stone palace

    There is something about a tale of an abandoned city that tugs at the imagination, and this one is no different. Here among the remnants of an emperor’s glory you can still discover riches, and the sense of a world that existed only briefly and is long gone.

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    Ornate moss-covered oriental roof

    Another slice of North Korean history in Kaesong

    October 21, 2021
    Painting of young slave

    Roots: dark history or tourist trap?

    October 29, 2020
    Tombstones in a field

    Eyam, home to the original lockdown?

    August 25, 2022
  • Architecture,  History,  New Mexico,  Ten photos

    Around the world in ten photos: day six

    December 22, 2020 / 15 Comments
    Large adobe church with white doors and crosses on towers

    There is a solidity to this church; it seems rooted in the soil from which it was built. Its thick walls with their jutting buttresses look more like a fortification than a place of worship, and its massive bulk seems completely out of proportion to the small community it was built to serve.

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    Mountain road with car on verge

    Following the High Road to Taos

    February 14, 2021
    Ornate marble pillars holding up carved ceilings

    Chaumukha Mandir, the four-faced temple of Ranakpur

    March 1, 2021
    Row of elegant buildings in cream, blue and white

    Gallery: the Art Nouveau gems of Riga

    August 20, 2021
  • Guatemala,  Landscape,  Ten photos

    Around the world in ten photos: day five

    December 21, 2020 / 19 Comments
    Small fishing boat with a man in it, on a large lake

    Early morning, and the sun has just climbed above the volcanoes that encircle the lake. A fisherman in a rowing boat drifts slowly, checking the net that he hopes will have captured some fish overnight.

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    Small town beneath a forested hillside

    Meeting Maximón, the idol of Santiago Atitlàn

    December 13, 2020
    Man in small boat and a distant volcano

    Gallery: the serenity of dawn on Lake Atitlàn

    December 19, 2021
    Girl in traditional blue clothing

    Traditional textiles in San Antonio Palopo

    April 21, 2021
  • Laos,  People,  Ten photos

    Around the world in ten photos: day four

    December 20, 2020 / 11 Comments
    Woman crouching by a river panning for gold

    A woman crouches beside the fast-flowing river, panning for gold. Hers is a simple life in a rural village, but success here could change it forever.

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    Blacksmith crouching

    A village blacksmith in the Lao highlands

    March 10, 2021
    Pink bike helmet with Pinkie logo

    Gallery: motorbike ‘art’ in South East Asia

    December 27, 2021
    River with small boats and rocky cliff

    A day on the Nam Ou

    July 3, 2021
  • DPRK,  History,  Ten photos

    Around the world in ten photos: day three

    December 19, 2020 / 22 Comments
    Grassy mounds and statues of sheep

    A king and his queen are buried here, an unexpected sight in a country where much of ancient history has been forgotten, ignored, rewritten or even erased.

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    Large group of dancers in traditional Korean green dress

    Gallery: dancing on the streets of Pyongyang

    November 28, 2020
    Large modern Oriental style building surrounded by trees

    International friendships in North Korea

    June 30, 2022
    Empty airport seating area

    Gallery: Wonsan Kalma International Airport sits deserted

    May 7, 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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