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        • Paris
      • Germany
      • Iceland
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      • 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
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          • New York City
          • Washington State
      • Asia
        • DPRK
        • India
          • Kerala
          • Rajasthan
        • Indochina
          • Cambodia
          • Laos
          • Vietnam
        • Japan
        • Nepal
        • Oman
        • Syria
        • United Arab Emirates
        • Uzbekistan
  • Themes
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    • Art
      • Crafts
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    • Colour
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    • History
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      • War
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    • Nature and wildlife
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        • Flowers
        • Trees, forests and woodland
    • People
      • Culture & tradition
      • Street photography
    • Travel in general
  • Photo galleries
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  • Challenges
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      • Nature Photo Challenge
      • One Word Sunday
      • Photographing Public Art
      • Pick a Word
      • Squares
      • Sunday Stills
      • The Changing Seasons
      • Cee’s challenges
        • CBWC
        • CFFC
        • CMMC
    • General challenges
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      • Words of Wisdom
      • Writers’ Quotes Wednesday
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  • Architecture,  Lens-Artists,  London,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: city living in London

    February 15, 2021 / 40 Comments
    River view with modern city buildings

    There is no getting away from the fact that I am a city girl at heart. On my travels I wonder at stunning landscapes (mountains and deserts in particular). And I'm always thrilled to observe wild animals in their natural homes. But I couldn’t live anywhere other than a city. I like to be close to the action: to galleries, cinemas and restaurants. And I enjoy the buzz of city streets and the diversity of modern city living.

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    Sculpture of a cat on a roof

    Gallery: meet the many cats of Riga

    September 25, 2021
    Three large highly decorated buildings around a central square

    Gallery: building in threes

    May 13, 2022
    Large adobe church with white doors and crosses on towers

    Around the world in ten photos: day six

    December 22, 2020
  • Architecture,  Friendly Friday,  History,  Landscape,  New Mexico

    Following the High Road to Taos

    February 14, 2021 / 15 Comments
    Mountain road with car on verge

    There are two ways to get to Taos from Santa Fe. There is the quicker (but still pretty) Low Road, and the more dramatically scenic and historically interesting High Road. This winds through the Sangre de Cristo Mountains through high desert, forests and tiny communities. On the way there are stories to be discovered, stunning landscapes to marvel at and picture-perfect churches to explore.

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    Row of elegant buildings in cream, blue and white

    Gallery: the Art Nouveau gems of Riga

    August 20, 2021
    Red crumbling ruins

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

    August 12, 2021
    Ornate painted ceiling

    Gallery: ceilings and floors (and pavements and more)

    September 7, 2021
  • History,  People,  Travel in general

    Travelling in the 1930s: a flea market find

    February 13, 2021 / 22 Comments
    Page from old photo album

    In the mid 1930s a young couple set sail on the SS Moldavia with a group of friends, cruising to Lisbon, Madeira and the coast of north Africa on what they termed a ‘proper holiday’. They captured their adventures in photographs which they carefully stuck into an album and labelled. Later they added to the album: photos of a walking holiday in Germany, camping in Devon and more.

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    A large 1960s style home

    The legacy of Enver Hoxha

    May 13, 2023
    Path through green woodland

    Ruislip Woods: ancient woodland in suburbia

    November 15, 2021
    View over group of brick temples with tiered tiled roofs

    A walk in Patan, the City of Beauty

    February 1, 2023
  • Culture & tradition,  Just One Person,  Rajasthan

    A warm welcome in the Thar Desert

    February 11, 2021 / 30 Comments
    Lady in pink head covering in front of grass roof

    Nothing makes you feel more welcome in a country than to be invited into someone's home, however humble. And language is no barrier to connecting with a friendly hostess and her curious children.

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    Men with fishing nets on colourfully painted wooden rowing boats

    Living on borrowed time in Djiffer

    January 11, 2023
    Lady in Indian dress with a goat

    Meeting the locals in Narlai, Rajasthan

    March 17, 2021
    A man with a young girl on his shoulders

    Lunch with Mr Noon and his family

    January 13, 2023
  • DPRK,  Sunday Stills,  War

    Commemorating the fallen: the Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery in Pyongyang

    February 10, 2021 / 22 Comments
    Memorials separated with low green hedges and city view beyond

    On a hillside above Pyongyang, commanding a wonderful view of the city, stand row on row of granite blocks, each topped with a bust. The figures portrayed gaze out over the wooded slope of Mount Taesong to the rapidly changing cityscape below. These are North Korea’s fallen, martyrs in the cause of freedom from Japanese occupation.

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    Looking down at a station platform

    Taking a ride on the Pyongyang Metro

    July 10, 2021
    View of a city with river and modern architecture

    The astounding architecture of Pyongyang

    November 7, 2021
    Large poster depicting man waving red flag

    Gallery: the art of the propaganda poster in North Korea

    July 17, 2021
  • Culture & tradition,  History,  New Mexico

    Taos Pueblo: home of the Red Willow People

    February 9, 2021 / 21 Comments
    Small tree with pueblo houses behind

    When the first Spanish explorers arrived in what is today northern New Mexico in 1540, and saw the adobe structures of Taos Pueblo, they believed that they had found one of the fabled seven golden cities of Cibola. These were rumoured to be dotted across the desert plains of this region. Some say the sunlight glinting off the straw embedded in the adobe mud fooled Europeans into thinking there was gold in the soil.

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    Three women in red checked fabric wraps

    The Maasai people of the Ngorongoro Crater

    January 25, 2021
    Faded photo of a large statue and old apartments behind

    Where Lenin once pointed the way to …?

    February 5, 2021
    Man's hands working with tin

    Using our hands: handicrafts around the world

    April 27, 2021
  • Lens-Artists,  Photographic techniques

    From forgettable to favourite: editing for impact

    February 7, 2021 / 42 Comments
    Trees, pool and raised boardwalk

    Some say that a photo should be a direct representation of what we saw as we clicked the shutter. I say, that is impossible. The eye, like the camera, may see the true picture, but the brain tends to see what it wants to see, and the photo may therefore disappoint.

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    Blue flowers with a blurred green backdrop

    Gallery: playing with bokeh

    April 13, 2022
    River in foreground with deep orange sky and sun appearing

    Gallery: another tequila sunrise (credit the Eagles)

    August 23, 2022
    Collage of seven photos

    Gallery: you choose (I can’t!)

    January 9, 2023
  • Coast & seascapes,  Just One Person,  Kerala,  People

    The fishermen of Chowara, Kerala

    February 6, 2021 / 32 Comments
    Man in a red turban

    One of the pleasures of a stay by the sea is an early morning walk on the beach. The waves lapping the shore, the sound of sea birds, a gentle breeze … a tranquil spot in which to recharge the batteries. But what most of us regard as a welcome break from our day to day lives is for others a place of work, and hard work at that.

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    Rocky coastline

    Stunning landscapes of Iceland: the day the sun shone

    October 29, 2021
    Woman on grassy cliff looking out at passing ships

    Gallery: I must go down to the seas again

    June 10, 2022
    Rocky beach and palm trees

    On the Pacific coast in Drake Bay

    February 28, 2022
  • Culture & tradition,  History,  Ukraine

    Where Lenin once pointed the way to …?

    February 5, 2021 / 31 Comments
    Faded photo of a large statue and old apartments behind

    When Newcastle United reached the last 32 of the Europa League in 2013 we held our breath to see what team we would be drawn against, dreaming of a February trip to warmer climes, maybe Italy, Spain or Portugal. Instead we got Metalist Kharkiv, a team we had never heard of, in the eastern depths of chilly Ukraine. Would we go? You bet we would!

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    Three women in red checked fabric wraps

    The Maasai people of the Ngorongoro Crater

    January 25, 2021

    A postcard from Nepal: Sadhus

    October 27, 2022
    Books on a market stall

    A postcard from Tirana: the flea market

    April 24, 2023
  • Botswana,  Landscape,  Sunday Stills,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: mokoro rides in the Okavango Delta

    February 3, 2021 / 22 Comments
    Wetlands in low sun

    Please don’t ask me to pick my favourite landscape – it’s impossible. I love the drama of high mountain ranges, and the huge open skies of the desert; the haunting light that illuminates certain lands close to our poles, and grassy savannahs strewn with baobab trees; gentle green rolling hills, and roaring waterfalls.

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    Savannah landscape under blue sky

    A walk on Palm Island: hippos, hogs and crocs

    May 4, 2021
    Two lions on a sandy river bank

    Gallery: taking a wider view in Botswana

    September 12, 2021
    Orange sunset with water reflections

    The sun sets and the sun rises over the Chobe River

    June 21, 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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