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  • Home
  • Destinations
    • England
      • London
      • Newcastle-upon-Tyne
    • Europe
      • Albania
      • 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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    • ‘Always Write’ interview
    • My love of travel
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  • Colour,  One Word Sunday,  Photographic techniques,  Sunday Stills,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: blackness against the light

    January 30, 2023 / 75 Comments
    Two men in Arab robes on a sand dune

    Silhouettes are a great way to create drama in an image. By eliminating details they evoke mystery and can be enigmatic. They take to extreme the balances in contrast that we all work with in our photography.

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    Blue and white twirl effect image

    Gallery: twirling away with a new photo effect!

    May 14, 2021
    Row of impala drinking from a river

    Monochrome in colour: creating an impact

    November 1, 2020
    Large pink flower

    Gallery: in the pink in Colombia

    March 8, 2023
  • History,  Lens-Artists

    Reading messages from the past

    January 29, 2023 / 64 Comments
    Rock with petroglyphs of animals

    When I travel I am always curious about the people who inhabit the places I visit. I seek to understand their way of life and observe how it differs from, or is similar to, my own. But there are other people who populate my travels, the people who ONCE lived in these lands.

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    Several bridges over a river

    Newcastle: a city and its river

    February 18, 2021
    Log cabin with sign 'Shoes, Boots, Saddles'

    Old Mission, one man’s dream

    November 10, 2021
    Page from old photo album

    Travelling in the 1930s: a flea market find

    February 13, 2021
  • Pick a Word,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: pick a word (January 2023)

    January 28, 2023 / 30 Comments
    A subway station platform seen through columns supporting the roof

    How do we define a ‘good word’? One that is appropriate for the situation? One that does good rather than harm? Or one that sounds good when we hear it spoken or read it aloud? Or perhaps all three?

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    Large rock outcrops

    Gallery: pick a word (June)

    June 24, 2022
    Monkey looking down from a branch

    Gallery: pick a word (March 2023)

    March 18, 2023
    Black and white photo of tiny fungi growing out of lichen

    Gallery: pick a word (September)

    October 6, 2022
  • Japan,  Mid-week Monochrome,  Monochrome Madness,  Photographic techniques,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: seeing Japan in black and white

    January 26, 2023 / 43 Comments
    Black and white landscape with red tinted Japanese gate

    There’s a restraint, a rejection of what is not necessary, in Japanese art and architecture. What is left out is as important as, if not more important than, what is put in.

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    School children in the Hiroshima Peace Park

    Finding peace in Hiroshima

    September 7, 2020
    Golden temple reflected in a lake

    Exploring the temple gardens of Kyoto

    May 9, 2021
    Line of seated stone statues wearing red caps and bibs

    The Bake-Jizō of Kanmangafuchi Abyss

    February 16, 2021
  • Landscape,  Sunday Stills,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: the sound of silence

    January 25, 2023 / 63 Comments
    Moon shine reflected in the sea and framed by shadowy trees

    How do you photograph silence? Photographing a sound seems challenging enough, being invisible; but the absence of sound even more so.

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    Rough wooden fence

    What a difference a day makes

    February 28, 2021
    Landscape with old wall on hillside

    Outpost of the Roman Empire, Housesteads

    December 5, 2020
    Stony landscape with rough road

    Jebel Shams, the tallest mountain in Oman

    May 8, 2021
  • Architecture,  Nepal,  One Word Sunday,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: the doors of Nepal

    January 23, 2023 / 66 Comments
    Blue and green wooden doors

    Whether ancient and beautiful, old and battered, or newer and colourful, there was something about the doors in Nepal that charmed me. And yes, some could have come straight out of a fairy tale perhaps.

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    Ceramic tiles with blue border and brown lion and castle

    A visit to the Real Alcázar of Seville

    December 29, 2021
    Detail of ornate tiled frieze

    Finding geometry in the buildings of Marrakesh

    July 27, 2021
    Man having his shoes shined

    Exploring the sights of downtown Medellín

    April 4, 2023
  • Lens-Artists,  London,  Monday walks

    A city stroll in London

    January 22, 2023 / 51 Comments
    Stone carving of a dragon on an old building in front of a modern one

    The oft-quoted line, ‘when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life’ comes from a discussion between Johnson and James Boswell about whether or not Boswell's affection for London would wear thin should he be living there as Johnson did, rather than enjoying the city on occasional visits.

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    Street with low houses and woman carrying a basket

    Weird and wonderful: forbidden culture in Cuenca

    October 24, 2021
    Close up of a giraffe's eye

    Gallery: making eyes at me

    June 27, 2022
    Two young Buddhist monks in robes, carrying umbrellas

    Gallery: travel photography is my ‘groove’

    August 8, 2022
  • Colour,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: a pop of colour to brighten the darkness

    January 20, 2023 / 45 Comments
    Colourful mural advertising Red Stripe beer

    'With colour one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft' (Henri Matisse). Bright colours have the power to lift the spirits just as sunshine does.

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    Line of seated stone statues wearing red caps and bibs

    The Bake-Jizō of Kanmangafuchi Abyss

    February 16, 2021
    Detail of traditional Chinese roof with small ornamental figures

    Gallery: never jaded by jade

    March 14, 2022
    Round blue ceramic roof tile with a dragon image

    Gallery: feeling the blues, again

    December 16, 2022
  • Lens-Artists,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: so which did you choose?

    January 18, 2023 / 24 Comments
    Collage of seven different photos

    Photography, like all arts, is a subjective business. We all have our favourites. At times though it seems it’s almost as hard to judge other people’s work as it is our own. Nevertheless, we often do just that.

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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
    African landscape with mysterious ball

    Gallery: it’s tricky!

    April 3, 2023
  • Colour,  Sunday Stills,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: how many shades of grey?

    January 16, 2023 / 46 Comments
    Rock stack in the mist

    Grey probably gets a bad name as a colour. We think of it as rather dull. We associate it with gloomy weather, with an absence of light and brightness. But it has its admirers. Hopefully I can demonstrate that if you look closely you will find beauty in grey.

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    Blue and turquoise mosaic

    Gallery: feeling the blues

    November 11, 2021
    Row of impala drinking from a river

    Monochrome in colour: creating an impact

    November 1, 2020
    Colourful paper lanterns at night

    Gallery: let there be light

    September 21, 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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