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  • Home
  • 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
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      • Life in Colour
      • One-to-Three
      • Ten photos
      • Thursday Doors
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  • About me
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  • Culture & tradition,  Friendly Friday,  Washington State

    Purple Haze: remembering Jimi Hendrix

    July 30, 2021 / 21 Comments
    Close-up of head sculpted in bronze

    When we realised that our route back into Seattle at the end of our Washington State road trip would take us through Renton, just to the north of the city, there was one detour we just had to make.

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    Looking over an Italian hill town

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

    November 26, 2020
    Man's hands working with tin

    Using our hands: handicrafts around the world

    April 27, 2021

    A postcard from Nepal: souvenir seller

    November 10, 2022
  • Dark tourism,  Jersey,  War

    Jersey under occupation: the War Tunnels

    July 28, 2021 / 26 Comments
    Long empty tunnel with subdued lighting

    In June 1940 France fell to the advancing Nazi army and was occupied. The British government decided that the Channel Islands, just off the Normandy coast, were of no strategic importance and would not be defended. The islands were effectively demilitarised, and the residents were faced with an impossible choice. Should they stay and face occupation or go, leaving behind families, friends and possessions?

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    Empty airport seating area

    Gallery: Wonsan Kalma International Airport sits deserted

    May 7, 2021
    Sepia photo of Buzludzha Monument

    Buzludzha Monument

    September 4, 2020
    Relief carvings of battle scenes

    So who did start the Korean War?

    September 15, 2020
  • Architecture,  Morocco,  Sunday Stills,  Travel galleries

    Finding geometry in the buildings of Marrakesh

    July 27, 2021 / 27 Comments
    Detail of ornate tiled frieze

    Some of the most beautiful architecture I have seen has been in the Islamic world. Islamic art shuns the depiction of living figures, whether human or animal, partly to avoid any suggestion of idolatry and partly because it is believed that the creation of living forms is Allah’s prerogative. Instead the emphasis is on geometric forms as well as calligraphy and abstract floral motifs.

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    Terraced fields, shadowy buildings and mountains tinged with pink

    In Bandipur, an ancient hilltop town

    December 20, 2022
    Colourful houses built over water

    Chiloé: a place of witches and gnomes

    August 4, 2022
    Sculpture of a cat on a roof

    Gallery: meet the many cats of Riga

    September 25, 2021
  • History,  Landscape,  Lens-Artists,  New Mexico

    Our Land of Enchantment: the scenic byways of New Mexico

    July 25, 2021 / 27 Comments
    Scruffy looking shop in wood

    New Mexico dubs itself the ‘Land of Enchantment’ and indeed we were enchanted. What delighted us most was the variety. In two and a half weeks we saw natural wonders and man-made. We followed trails worn down over the centuries by the moccasin-clad feet of early inhabitants; and sat in the cramped confines of a Mercury capsule. We marvelled at the legends of those early Native Americans, and at the tales of aliens crashing near Roswell.

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    Stone circle in a landscape with blue sky and white clouds

    A visit to Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain

    June 21, 2022
    Sepia photo of old houses

    Port Royal, the richest and wickedest city in the world

    May 21, 2021
    Intricate red stone palace

    Around the world in ten photos: day seven

    December 23, 2020
  • CBWC,  Photographic techniques,  Themed galleries,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: reflecting on black and white

    July 24, 2021 / 29 Comments
    Black and white photo of sea stacks

    In nature still water provides the best reflections. So most of the photos I have selected for this post are of reflections in water – but not all of them.

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    Black and white silhouetted figures in front of an ornate domed building

    Gallery: capturing photographers in black and white

    March 30, 2022
    Looking directly down at a cluster of simple houses

    Gallery: ways of seeing

    April 2, 2022
    Black and white photo of a sculpture of horses and a woman in classical robes

    Gallery: centred in monochrome

    July 10, 2022
  • Iceland,  Photographing Public Art,  Street art,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: street art in Reykjavik

    July 23, 2021 / 34 Comments
    Colourful mural in blues and greens

    We visit Iceland for its magnificent landscapes: mountains, glaciers, waterfalls, craggy coastlines. But for street art? Probably not; and yet its capital, Reykjavik, is a cool town with plenty of beautiful and/or interesting murals to be found.

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    Black beach with distant cliffs with a rock arch

    The black lava beach of Reynisfjara

    October 12, 2022
    Rocky coastline

    Stunning landscapes of Iceland: the day the sun shone

    October 29, 2021
    Rain spattered window with blurred landscape

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

    October 23, 2021
  • Africa,  England,  Landscape,  Squares,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: lone trees in the landscape

    July 22, 2021 / 34 Comments
    Tree with dramatic sky

    'Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.' (Kahil Gebran) And if every tree is a poem, a tree that stands alone is perhaps a performance poem - a poem that is shouted to the heavens?

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    Two bright green birds in a dead tree

    Bird weekly #52: birds with long tail feathers

    June 18, 2021
    Busy African market

    Gallery: a morning at Serekunda Market

    January 27, 2021
    Yellow and green birds on a branch, black and white background

    Gallery: playing with a selective colour technique

    June 1, 2021
  • Italy,  Monday walks

    On a walk through Serra San Quirico

    July 21, 2021 / 29 Comments
    Typical Italian stone village surrounded by trees

    Imagine a small hill-top town, its old buildings ringed by a defensive wall. The wall is threaded through with covered passageways, known as copertelle. In the past these afforded the residents a safe route around the town even at times of attack. Today they repay exploration by visitors who want to absorb some of the unique atmosphere of this pretty town.

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    Looking over an Italian hill town

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

    November 26, 2020
    View down to an Italian town square and hills beyond

    Postcards from the past: a small town in Italy

    November 14, 2020
    Two men in fancy dress

    Gallery: Comic and Games festival in Lucca

    November 8, 2020
  • Mountains,  Squares,  Sunday Stills,  Washington State

    A day in the mountains: driving the North Cascades

    July 19, 2021 / 37 Comments
    Pine tree branch with out of focus mountains behind

    Highway 20, the North Cascades Highway, is recognised as one of the most scenic drives in the North West, possibly in the entire US. It is the only real road through this vast wilderness of mountains, glaciers and lakes which constitute the North Cascades National Park.

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    Mountain peak with small plane

    Gallery: sunrise over the Himalayas

    December 22, 2022

    A postcard from Nepal: Annapurna

    November 4, 2022
    Dramatic mountain landscape

    Gallery: Mountain, Desert, Jungle or Ocean?

    June 28, 2021
  • Destinations,  Lens-Artists,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: getting away, or, there’s a wonderful world out there!

    July 18, 2021 / 42 Comments
    Road between graasy fields and woods, leading to mountains

    There’s a wonderful world out there, and I can’t wait to be able to travel again to see it all. But while I wait I am lucky to have so many great memories of past trips, and so many photos of them too.

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    Seascape with icebergs and snowy shores

    Travel inspiration – where does it come from?

    August 8, 2021
    Signpost with numbers against a lake backdrop

    A year in numbers

    August 30, 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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