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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
    • Contact me
    • ‘Always Write’ interview
    • My love of travel
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      • Photographic techniques
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  • Pick a Word,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: pick a word (August)

    August 30, 2022 / 32 Comments
    Black and white photo of a lady smoking a cigar

    Thomas Jefferson said, 'The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.' This is a maxim I would do well to follow, but I too rarely succeed in doing so.

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    Large rock outcrops

    Gallery: pick a word (June)

    June 24, 2022
    Black and white shot of a hill with terraces and bushes

    Gallery: pick a word (November)

    November 26, 2022
    Man with a beard in sunglasses, wearing a hat

    Gallery: pick a word (July)

    July 28, 2022
  • England,  Monday walks,  Ruins

    A stroll around Fountains Abbey

    August 29, 2022 / 42 Comments
    Ruined stone church

    In 1132 a small group of monks left their Benedictine Monastery in York, fed up with the extravagant and rowdy lifestyle of the monks there. Seeking a more devout and simple way of life, they were granted a parcel of land by the River Skell where they built a small wooden church and applied, successfully, to join the Cistercian order.

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    Lake set among pine forests

    The Lewis Burn inlet walk at Kielder Water

    March 22, 2021
    Tombstones in a field

    Eyam, home to the original lockdown?

    August 25, 2022
    Brightly coloured boat approaching the shore

    Gallery: Everybody Razzle Dazzle in Liverpool

    October 1, 2021
  • Art,  England,  Photographing Public Art

    Radical Horizons: the Art of Burning Man at Chatsworth

    August 27, 2022 / 61 Comments
    Large flying horse made of disjointed metal parts

    Burning Man is a unique event that takes place every year in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, USA. But we are not in the deserts of Nevada; we are among the green hills of England’s Peak District.

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    Group of sculpted figures among dune grass

    The Conversation Piece and the Eye

    June 11, 2022
    Metal duck's mouth with water spouting

    Gallery: fountains from around the world

    January 29, 2022
    Sculpture of a lion outside a building with columns

    Gallery: some of the many monuments of Sofia

    October 15, 2022
  • England,  History

    Eyam, home to the original lockdown?

    August 25, 2022 / 22 Comments
    Tombstones in a field

    When Alexander Hadfield, a tailor, ordered a bale of cloth to be sent from London to his home in the small Derbyshire village of Eyam, he cannot have dreamed of the dreadful consequences. Nor could he have dreamed that this simple action would be remembered centuries later.

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    White flowers in front of an old house

    Gallery: the White Garden at Sissinghurst Castle

    June 23, 2021
    Wartime sign about spies

    Cracking the code at Bletchley Park

    June 19, 2021
    Large stone in a field

    A stroll around Avebury’s stone circle

    June 28, 2022
  • Landscape,  Lens-Artists,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: another tequila sunrise (credit the Eagles)

    August 23, 2022 / 39 Comments
    River in foreground with deep orange sky and sun appearing

    Somehow, getting up early to watch a sunrise is so much easier when travelling. Of course it helps that the setting is usually both more beautiful and more interesting than the rooftops of our London suburbs above which we would normally see it rise.

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    Water reflecting the sky with clouds and low sun

    The sun will come out tomorrow (and I will photograph it)

    November 9, 2020
    Top of a waterfall

    Just a few of the waterfalls of Iceland

    May 3, 2021
    Savannah landscape under blue sky

    A walk on Palm Island: hippos, hogs and crocs

    May 4, 2021
  • England,  Photographing Public Art,  Street art,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: on the trail of Knaresborough’s Town Windows

    August 20, 2022 / 39 Comments

    How many windows is too many? That was the question facing many seventeenth century property owners. In 1696 a window tax was introduced in England and Wales. The more windows a building had, the more its owner had to pay.

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    Clothes hanging on a white wooden door

    Gallery: the Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Garden in St Ives

    April 4, 2021
    Wooden hut painted in candy stripes

    Gallery: colourful beach huts in Whitstable and Broadstairs

    November 20, 2020
    Group of deer with antlers

    Studley Royal, a very English country garden

    September 13, 2022
  • Architecture,  Latvia

    Rundāle, the Baltic Versailles?

    August 18, 2022 / 29 Comments
    Large yellow building with white window details and ornamentation

    If you like a palace to be somewhat grandiose, testament to the rich family it once housed, come with me to Rundāle Palace in the Latvian countryside. Its 18th century splendour has been painstakingly restored and is in places almost overwhelming in its extravagance.

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    Modern buildings and cathedral dome in dull weather

    Gallery: favourite city life photos of 2021

    January 2, 2022
    Looking up at a white stone church with several domes

    Le Sacré Coeur de Paris

    April 10, 2022
    Large square with historic buildings and tourists

    In ancient Bhaktapur, a royal capital

    November 24, 2022
  • Lens-Artists,  Photographic techniques,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: photographing poetry in motion

    August 16, 2022 / 54 Comments
    Waterfall with bird flying in front

    There may be poetry in motion, but it’s not necessarily easy to capture that poetry in a still photograph. Despite that, we all try from time to time, and there are various techniques we can use.

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    Black and white photo of a model village

    My photography journey: more than fifty years of images

    February 1, 2021
    Statue of two soldiers shaking hands

    Gallery: favourite miscellaneous photos of 2021

    January 7, 2022
    Collage of seven different photos

    Gallery: so which did you choose?

    January 18, 2023
  • Rajasthan,  Writers' Quotes Wednesday

    Udaipur, Rajasthan’s city of lakes

    August 14, 2022 / 25 Comments
    Lake surrounded by low mountains with a small island

    Udaipur’s setting in the Aravalli Mountains, and around a string of man-made lakes, gives it a unique character among Rajasthan’s cities. Arriving here it is immediately obvious why it is so often called the ‘city of lakes’.

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    Boy and his father in a shop

    Gallery: the friendly people of Khimsar

    July 13, 2022
    Landscape with trees and escarpments

    Tiger, Tiger, burning bright …

    November 8, 2021
    Bed decorated with leaves and seeds

    Wherever I lay my hat … (continued)

    January 6, 2021
  • Friendly Friday,  Photographic techniques,  Themed galleries

    Friendly Friday Challenge: all or nothing?

    August 12, 2022 / 47 Comments
    Banner with two photos

    Let’s consider how much of your image is occupied by your main subject. Often the answer to that is, quite a lot of it. But you can take this to extremes, either filling the frame completely or leaving lots of empty space around your subject. Both can be effective, in different ways.

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    Sun setting over the sea

    Gallery: enjoying serene views in Costa Rica

    February 19, 2022
    Banner heading with photo of African man

    Friendly Friday: meet Cheikh, a guide in Senegal

    July 16, 2021
    Looking down at snowy mountains from a plane

    Gallery: it’s a wonderful world, from above

    November 5, 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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