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    • England
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      • Spain
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      • Ukraine
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        • Kenya
        • Morocco
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        • 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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  • History,  Landscape,  Monday walks,  New Mexico

    In the footsteps of the Mogollon at Gila Cliff Dwellings

    May 31, 2021 / 25 Comments
    Looking out from a cave towards valley with pine trees

    Standing here and looking out over the valley, you have the same view a Mogollon would have had, centuries ago. For thousands of years, groups of nomadic people had used these caves to provide temporary shelter. Until, in the late 1200s, some people of the Mogollon culture decided this would be a good place to call home. They built rooms, crafted pottery and raised children in the cliff dwellings for about twenty years. Then the Mogollon moved on, leaving the walls of their homes still standing.

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    Stone church and blue sky

    The wonders of Bulgaria’s Bachkovo Monastery

    February 10, 2022
    Mosaic of Kim Il Sung and family in the snow

    Where the Kims of North Korea were born – or were they?

    May 6, 2021
    Bronze statue of a seated man holding a hat

    Looking for Thomas Hardy in Dorset

    November 17, 2021
  • Chile,  Landscape,  Lens-Artists

    To touch the sky: the Torres del Paine

    May 30, 2021 / 52 Comments
    Mountain landscape

    As a lover of mountain scenery, I have long wished to visit the high Andes of Patagonia, and specifically the Torres del Paine National Park in Chile. This is named for the three distinctive peaks at its heart, the Torres or Towers, but these are just a few of the majestic mountains contained within its boundaries. Add numerous lakes, glaciers and rivers, and this is a landscape to tug at the heart strings and demand attention.

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    View of beach with icebergs and mountains beyond

    Glacier Grey – or should that be turquoise?

    January 1, 2021
    Colourful houses built over water

    Chiloé: a place of witches and gnomes

    August 4, 2022
    Landscape with flamingos, water, salt flats and mountains

    Gallery: the flamingos of the Salar de Atacama

    April 24, 2021
  • Friendly Friday,  Landscape,  USA,  Video

    Video: big skies and red rock country

    May 29, 2021 / 32 Comments
    Rock formation with arch and pinnacle

    Towering cliffs and deep deep canyons, delicate orange arches, slender pinnacles, balancing rocks … Stone doing what you would have thought stone could never do. And always that blue never-ending sky.

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    People crossing train tracks as a train approaches a station

    The charms of travelling by train

    June 5, 2022
    Man and dog on a bench

    Recycled Spirits of Iron (Ex Nihilo)

    May 20, 2021
    Hand holding knife and straw shavings

    Gallery: getting up close and personal

    September 24, 2021
  • Coast & seascapes,  Eco-tourism,  Senegal

    The tragic tale of a Senegalese mouse

    May 28, 2021 / 24 Comments
    Pink sunrise over water

    When we travel to Africa we do so in the hope that we will see wildlife, and we have never yet been disappointed. We also accept that on occasion one of the smaller local creatures might find its way into our accommodation, a natural hazard in many parts of the world.

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    Rocky coastline

    Stunning landscapes of Iceland: the day the sun shone

    October 29, 2021
    Old boat and rail track on a shingle beach

    Gallery: at the edge of England

    November 11, 2020
    Roof line of yellow beach hut with yacht and seagull ornaments

    Gallery: exploring beaches, near and far

    July 7, 2022
  • Bird Weekly,  Birds,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: meet Steven the Seagull and some friends

    May 27, 2021 / 23 Comments
    Young Herring Gull with roof tops in background

    Not many gulls are as famous as Steven. Said to be Estonia’s most photographed seagull, he lives in Tallinn and is often seen on the viewing platform overlooking the Lower Town. He has featured in hundreds of tourist photos and became so famous that in 2016 he got his own Instagram account.

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    Fierce-looking owl

    Gallery: owl portraits, striped and speckled

    June 12, 2021
    Green bird with red stripe on head

    Gallery: discovering birdlife in Bushy Park

    April 9, 2021
    Landscape with flamingos, water, salt flats and mountains

    Gallery: the flamingos of the Salar de Atacama

    April 24, 2021
  • Animals,  Botswana,  Eco-tourism,  Monday walks

    A walk on Sausage Island: it’s all about the elephants

    May 25, 2021 / 19 Comments
    Dead tree and long grass

    While the safety of a jeep is comforting and often necessary on safari, there is nothing to beat the experience of walking through the African countryside on foot. A slight frisson of danger accompanies you as you step carefully through the long grass. The only sounds are those of the wildlife around you and the breeze through the trees; the only scents those wafted on that same breeze.

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    Hairy animal holding a tree trunk

    The oddities of sloths

    March 6, 2022
    Red and black igiana

    The ‘Christmas’ marine iguanas of Española Island

    December 6, 2020
    Cheetah head and shoulders

    With the beautiful Africat cheetahs in Namibia

    May 16, 2021
  • Architecture,  Lens-Artists,  Travel galleries,  United Arab Emirates

    Gallery: cool architecture, cool colours

    May 24, 2021 / 31 Comments
    Modern white building with moat

    The most successful buildings are those in which form and function work in harmony. Buildings that not only look amazing but serve their purpose well. And also, buildings which reflect the culture of their location and contribute to it, rather than tug against it. The Louvre Abu Dhabi is one such building.

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    Three photos in a black frame showing an oriental palace and some details

    Buildings three ways (three of a kind)

    May 29, 2022
    Part of a cathedral with blue skies

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

    January 15, 2022
    Ceramic tiles with blue border and brown lion and castle

    A visit to the Real Alcázar of Seville

    December 29, 2021
  • Friendly Friday,  Landscape,  USA

    California dreaming: our first US road trip

    May 23, 2021 / 46 Comments
    Rear of white car

    If you have never been on a road trip before, what would be your ideal first-timer destination? Could there be a better choice than California? We have made nine road trips in the US but our first remains in many ways our most memorable, and not just because it was the first. LA, San Francisco, the Big Sur, Yosemite, Joshua Tree … the list of iconic sights goes on and on.

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    Label for rule of thirds challenge

    Friendly Friday Challenge: the rule of thirds

    January 28, 2022
    View down to an Italian town square and hills beyond

    Postcards from the past: a small town in Italy

    November 14, 2020
    Green weed in fast flowing water

    Gallery: what is green?

    June 18, 2022
  • History,  Jamaica

    Port Royal, the richest and wickedest city in the world

    May 21, 2021 / 25 Comments
    Sepia photo of old houses

    A short drive from bustling (and seedy) downtown Kingston, on a spit of land reaching out into the sea, lies the small and slightly shabby fishing community of Port Royal. Today it is hard to imagine that this secluded backwater was once described as ‘the richest and wickedest city in the world’. But its sleepy demeanour masks a notorious past.

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    Faded photo of low stone house set in a garden

    Out of Africa: visiting Karen Blixen’s home

    March 16, 2021
    Mosaic of Kim Il Sung and family in the snow

    Where the Kims of North Korea were born – or were they?

    May 6, 2021
    Row of moai

    Rapa Nui: the mystery of the moai

    October 18, 2020
  • Art,  Friendly Friday,  Just One Person,  People,  Washington State

    Recycled Spirits of Iron (Ex Nihilo)

    May 20, 2021 / 25 Comments
    Man and dog on a bench

    Dan Klennert is on a one-man crusade against today’s throwaway society, creating beauty out of objects others have rejected as no longer of use: ‘I do not form shapes, I collect shapes to create my forms.’ He works with junk metal and driftwood to create amazing and fantastical sculptures.

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    Man in a brown hat with a feather

    Shanti Arts: inspired by world travel

    June 9, 2021
    Sculpture of a soldier in uniform waving

    Gallery: a wartime farewell in Tavira

    April 23, 2022
    Bronze sculpture of two young elephants

    A little bit of Nairobi in London’s Spitalfields

    January 22, 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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