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  • 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
      • Friday’s Foods of the World
      • Life in Colour
      • One-to-Three
      • Ten photos
      • Thursday Doors
      • Thursday Trios
  • About me
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  • Gardens,  Paris,  People,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: a sunny afternoon in the Jardins du Luxembourg

    September 30, 2022 / 36 Comments
    Gardens with flower beds, lawns and statues

    If you want to understand the people of a city a great place to start is in one of their parks. Seeing them relaxing, at play, you can appreciate not how different they are from you but how similar.

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    Small purple blossoms

    Gallery: a bouquet of purple flowers

    August 11, 2021
    White flowers with dark purple centre patches

    Gallery: a July selection

    August 2, 2022
    Purple flower on a long stem

    Gallery: roses are red, violets are blue …

    April 19, 2021
  • Bulgaria,  History,  Postcards from the road

    A postcard from Sofia

    September 28, 2022 / 18 Comments
    Brick church with domes against a blue sky

    Is it ever OK to be late? It’s something I try my very best to avoid, but occasionally it can be a good thing, as in the case of Boris III of Bulgaria. This is the Hagia Nedelja church. The previous church on this spot was destroyed in a terrorist plot in 1925 to assassinate the king, Boris III. He was attending the funeral service of General Konstantin Georgiev, who had been killed in an assault two days previously, on 14 April of that year. The group from the Bulgarian…

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    Sculpture of a lion outside a building with columns

    Gallery: some of the many monuments of Sofia

    October 15, 2022
    Stone church and blue sky

    The wonders of Bulgaria’s Bachkovo Monastery

    February 10, 2022
    Small church on a wooded mountainside

    Asen’s Fortress and the Church of the Holy Mother of God

    August 18, 2021
  • Culture & tradition,  Laos,  Monday walks

    Island life in the Mekong

    September 26, 2022 / 33 Comments
    Blue sign welcoming to village

    On a small island in the Mekong River in southern Laos, Done Deng, lies the village of Ban Houa Done Deng. The name means 'village of the head of Done Deng' as it lies at the northern tip of the island. The villagers benefit from the financial support of the nearby hotel, La Folie, which has enabled a school to be built here.

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    Golden temple reflected in a lake

    Exploring the temple gardens of Kyoto

    May 9, 2021
    Banner with photo of two women in yellow dresses

    Friendly Friday: meet some wedding guests in Cambodia

    October 8, 2021
    Two large mosaics with portraits of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il

    Gallery: mosaic portraits of a dynasty

    October 21, 2020
  • Lens-Artists,  People,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: when (if ever) are we over the hill?

    September 25, 2022 / 40 Comments
    Sepia photo of man in front of a poster of himself

    We talk about someone we consider to be too old as being ‘over the hill’, but who decides how old is too old? Do we too easily dismiss the elderly among us as being past it? Do we fail to recognise that their journeys up that hill may mean that they have a lot to teach us about the paths that we too must follow?

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    Elephant reflection created artificially

    Gallery: creating the surreal in post-production

    July 24, 2022
    Orthodox cathedral at the end of a wide street

    Gallery: Sofia’s St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral

    March 7, 2021
    Large yellow reptile looking at camera

    Spotting wildlife in the Galápagos Islands

    January 23, 2022
  • Paris,  Photographing Public Art,  Street art,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: yet more street art in Paris

    September 23, 2022 / 54 Comments
    Portraits created with black, white and yellow dots

    I never tire of wandering the streets of Paris; there is always so much to see and to photograph. From elegant buildings to quirky details and of course plenty of street art.

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    Silhouette of a bike against the sun, leaning against a tree

    Gallery: seeing Paris in black and white

    September 22, 2022
    Red Metro sign against a backdrop of leaves

    Gallery: a September selection

    October 3, 2022
    Panoramic cityscape

    The best views of Paris?

    September 12, 2022
  • Mid-week Monochrome,  Paris,  Photographic techniques,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: seeing Paris in black and white

    September 22, 2022 / 24 Comments
    Silhouette of a bike against the sun, leaning against a tree

    Paris, like most cities, is full of colour. Street art, flower markets, shop windows, mellow old stone, green (or autumnal) trees … I could go on. But it is also full of striking details that translate well to monochrome images.

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    Silhouette of a flower

    Gallery: textures of Nepal in monochrome

    November 21, 2022
    Black and white photo of a city view with a large cathedral

    Gallery: seeing Sofia in black and white

    October 13, 2022
    Black and white landscape with red tinted Japanese gate

    Gallery: seeing Japan in black and white

    January 26, 2023
  • Paris,  Street photography,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: on the streets of Paris again

    September 21, 2022 / 25 Comments
    Lady reading a book at a cafe table

    Jean Cocteau said that, 'In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator'. I disagree. For me, there are few more pleasurable ways to pass the time in Paris than sitting on the terrace of a pavement café watching the world pass by.

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    Red Metro sign against a backdrop of leaves

    Gallery: a September selection

    October 3, 2022
    Silhouette of a bike against the sun, leaning against a tree

    Gallery: seeing Paris in black and white

    September 22, 2022
    Looking from a station platform into a tunnel

    Postcard from Paris: le Metro

    September 3, 2022
  • Monday walks,  Paris,  Street art,  Street photography

    A stroll through the Marais

    September 19, 2022 / 33 Comments
    Large cafe with pavement tables and teddy bears at the windows

    The Marais is one of the loveliest and most fashionable districts of Paris. The name means ‘marshland’ because the original village here was built on a marsh, but there are no signs of that these days! Instead there are elegant buildings, pretty squares and of course the Parisian staples of great little cafés.

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    Large waterfall glimpsed through spray

    Mosi-oa-Tunya, the Smoke that Thunders

    December 8, 2021
    Black and white photo of two women with umbrellas tinted pink

    Sofia, city of contrasts and a work in progress

    October 5, 2022
    Garden with orange and palm trees

    A walk in the gardens of Seville’s Real Alcázar

    December 22, 2021
  • Lens-Artists,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: do opposites really attract?

    September 18, 2022 / 34 Comments
    Zebra with others behind

    How do you photograph opposites? You can combine them in a single photo, as in the black and white zebras above. Or you can pair photos to show two extremes.

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    Blue flowers with a blurred green backdrop

    Gallery: playing with bokeh

    April 13, 2022

    Seen better days: the ruined villages of Oman

    October 2, 2021
    Pink blossom

    Gallery: April in Ealing

    April 11, 2021
  • History,  London,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: a farewell to a monarch

    September 16, 2022 / 59 Comments
    Large palace with lots of people and flower bads

    You must have been living on Mars, or as a hermit, not to have heard that Queen Elizabeth II passed away last week. Here in the UK we are in a period of official mourning such as most of us have never experienced. Whether you are a fervent monarchist, staunch republican or (like me) somewhere on a scale between those two extremes, it’s hard not to be fascinated by the sense of history that surrounds us right now.

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    White dome above a tiled roof

    Faro’s old town: sights and impressions

    May 9, 2022
    Two large mosaics with portraits of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il

    Gallery: mosaic portraits of a dynasty

    October 21, 2020
    Lake with domed structure and birds

    Tales of death in Jaisalmer and beyond

    February 19, 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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