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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
        • 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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  • Lens-Artists,  Photographic techniques,  Themed galleries

    Lens Artists Challenge: picking favourites

    July 30, 2022 / 151 Comments
    Collage of three photos

    How good are you being self-critical when it comes to your photography? Can you easily pick out the best of your shots and are you comfortable rejecting those that have been less successful? I confess I’m pretty rubbish at it.

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    Elephant reflection created artificially

    Gallery: creating the surreal in post-production

    July 24, 2022
    Shadow of worn metal handrail on a wall

    Gallery: chasing shadows

    June 13, 2021
    Old postcard of bombed town

    Postcards from a time of war

    August 2, 2021
  • Pick a Word,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: pick a word (July)

    July 28, 2022 / 29 Comments
    Man with a beard in sunglasses, wearing a hat

    Can one word describe a photo, or a photo define a single word? That’s the challenge set by Paula in her monthly Pick a Word post. Five words, five photos inspired by those words.

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    Monkey looking down from a branch

    Gallery: pick a word (March 2023)

    March 18, 2023
    Large rock outcrops

    Gallery: pick a word (June)

    June 24, 2022
    A subway station platform seen through columns supporting the roof

    Gallery: pick a word (January 2023)

    January 28, 2023
  • Landscape,  Sunday Stills,  USA

    Road Trippin’ USA: a Brit’s perspective

    July 26, 2022 / 59 Comments
    Dark orange car in front of orange rocky landscape

    One of my favourite types of holiday is a road trip in the US. To someone from a small island, the huge empty spaces and relatively quiet roads there evoke a sense of freedom and opportunity. Anything could happen here; anything could be just around the next corner.

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    Mountain road with car on verge

    Following the High Road to Taos

    February 14, 2021
    River in foreground with deep orange sky and sun appearing

    Gallery: another tequila sunrise (credit the Eagles)

    August 23, 2022
    Wetlands in low sun

    Gallery: mokoro rides in the Okavango Delta

    February 3, 2021
  • Lens-Artists,  Photographic techniques,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: creating the surreal in post-production

    July 24, 2022 / 42 Comments
    Elephant reflection created artificially

    Salvador Dali said that, 'Surrealism is destructive'. It seems counter-intuitive to think of art as destructive, when it is such a creative process. Surely the purpose of art is to construct? And photography, as an art-form, creates or constructs a record of a moment in time. So perhaps to apply Dali’s definition of Surrealism to our photography, we need to partially destroy our images and distort that record in post-production?

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    Road between graasy fields and woods, leading to mountains

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

    July 18, 2021
    Tall trees, lots of ferns

    Gallery: on the Hall of Mosses trail

    November 24, 2020
    Hill with tower in front of high snow-covered mountains

    Gallery: Nepal on the diagonal

    December 5, 2022
  • Art,  Photographing Public Art,  Themed galleries,  Thursday Trios

    Gallery: art comes in threes

    July 22, 2022 / 29 Comments
    Street art with three Mona Lisa inspired murals

    For my next set of Thursday Trios I am focusing on art. I’ve borrowed a quote from Camus, a French author and philosopher, an absurdist and existentialist. I've also arguably borrowed a certain sense of the absurd for this gallery, but I don’t claim it to be philosophical in any sense!

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    Man standing in front of frescoes, talking

    An encounter in Zurich: a person with a passion

    March 3, 2021
    Large flying horse made of disjointed metal parts

    Radical Horizons: the Art of Burning Man at Chatsworth

    August 27, 2022
    Three large sculptures in a landscape

    Gallery: the Yorkshire Sculpture Park

    September 4, 2021
  • Architecture,  England,  History

    A visit to King’s College Chapel, Cambridge

    July 21, 2022 / 22 Comments
    Elegant stone buildings and a large church with a lawn

    When I was a child my mother, despite being the most unreligious person I know, would always insist on listening to (and in later years watching) the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols from King’s on Christmas Eve. That pause for beautiful music amidst the frenetic preparations for the big day was as much part of our family’s Christmas traditions as Mum’s recipe for Christmas pudding and the Morecombe and Wise show in the evening.

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    Terraced fields, shadowy buildings and mountains tinged with pink

    In Bandipur, an ancient hilltop town

    December 20, 2022
    Orthodox cathedral at the end of a wide street

    Gallery: Sofia’s St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral

    March 7, 2021
    Red sandstone palace buildings and pool

    ‘He keepeth a great court’: Fatehpur Sikri

    March 26, 2021
  • Architecture,  England,  History,  Monday walks

    A sunny day out in Cambridge, part one

    July 19, 2022 / 36 Comments
    Small boats on a river with grassy banks and old buildings

    The universities of Oxford and Cambridge (often shortened to ‘Oxbridge’) are known the world over for the quality of the education they provide, their many illustrious alumni and their long history. They dominate the towns in which they are based, giving each a unique atmosphere. Both towns are within easy reach of London and make for an interesting day trip from the capital.

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    Looking down a spiral staircase

    Gallery: the perfect simplicity of a spiral staircase

    October 10, 2021
    Red sandstone palace buildings and pool

    ‘He keepeth a great court’: Fatehpur Sikri

    March 26, 2021
    Lake with palace on the hill beyond

    The Palace of Bundi: Kipling’s ‘work of goblins’

    November 18, 2020
  • Coast & seascapes,  Lens-Artists,  People,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: summertime and the livin’ …

    July 17, 2022 / 68 Comments
    Canal with narrowboats decorated with flags

    As we head into what our weather forecasters are calling an ‘unprecedented heatwave’ in south east England (temperatures predicted to top 40F for the first time ever), my main thought at the moment is how to stay cool. OK, not cool; that may prove impossible! But at least, not too hot!

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    Back of whale with mountainous coast behind

    Thar she blows – eventually!

    July 7, 2021
    Rocky beach and palm trees

    On the Pacific coast in Drake Bay

    February 28, 2022
    Abstract view of sparkling blue water

    Gallery: water, water everywhere …

    February 20, 2022
  • Friendly Friday,  Photographic techniques,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: abstract shapes and colours

    July 16, 2022 / 42 Comments
    Colourful striped fabrics

    Try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, a house, a field, or whatever. Merely think, 'Here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow,' and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact colour and shape, until it gives you your own impression of the scene before you.

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    Aerial view of green swampland with river channels

    Video: flying to the Okavango Delta

    February 27, 2021
    Banner with two small photos

    Friendly Friday Challenge: leading lines

    May 6, 2022
    Banner with photo of a man in black and white football top

    Friendly Friday: meet some amazing guides (part two)

    November 26, 2021
  • Architecture,  Austria,  Photographing Public Art

    Gallery: on the streets of Vienna

    July 15, 2022 / 40 Comments
    Statue of a female figure on a building

    Vienna must be one of the most elegant cities in Europe. Its small scale gives it an air of intimacy that contrasts with the grandeur of many of its buildings. That’s an appealing combination.

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    Black and white photo of adobe church

    Gallery: San Francisco de Asis, Ranchos de Taos

    January 8, 2021
    Mountain road with car on verge

    Following the High Road to Taos

    February 14, 2021
    Large wooden curved structure

    Gallery: Seville’s mushrooms, art or architecture?

    December 4, 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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