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    • England
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        • 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
          • Chicago
          • 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
      • Lens-Artists
      • Monochrome Madness
      • Nature Photo Challenge
      • One Word Sunday
      • Photographing Public Art
      • Pick a Word
      • Squares
      • Sunday Stills
      • The Changing Seasons
      • Cee’s challenges
        • CBWC
        • CFFC
        • CMMC
    • General challenges
      • Happy Place Happy Space
      • Monday walks
      • Words of Wisdom
      • Writers’ Quotes Wednesday
    • Challenges archive
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        • The Friendly Friday Challenge: how to join in
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  • Nature and wildlife,  Nature Photo Challenge,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: the ‘point’ of sharpness in nature

    March 31, 2023 / 39 Comments
    Squat spiky cacti with single small pink flower

    Just as humans (sadly) use knives and swords for attack and defence, so too do animals and plants. Whether it’s a thorn or spike to ward off predators, or a sharp tooth to attack their prey, there is always a point to sharpness in nature.

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    Bee on a bright pink flower

    Gallery: a selection of summer bugs

    August 3, 2021
    Large brown spider on a web by a fence

    Gallery: Incy Wincy spider

    September 29, 2023
    Black cat sitting in a patch of grass

    Gallery: the queen of all colours

    July 15, 2023
  • Animals,  Birds,  Sunday Stills,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: peeking at animals, peeking at me

    March 30, 2023 / 51 Comments
    Tabby cat peering from between wooden board and a drain

    Looking back I see that I have already in the past, several times, shared photos of animals’ eyes. I hate to duplicate but but I believe I’ve managed to dig out some new, and some not-yet-shared, images for this collection.

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    Large yellow reptile looking at camera

    Spotting wildlife in the Galápagos Islands

    January 23, 2022
    Close up of a giraffe's eye

    Gallery: making eyes at me

    June 27, 2022
    Black and white monkey in a tree with small orange fruits

    Gallery: wildlife in the Caño Negra refuge

    March 17, 2022
  • Colombia,  Food & drink,  Landscape,  Monday walks

    One of Colombia’s most famous crops

    March 28, 2023 / 52 Comments
    Straw hat with pink hibiscus flower

    Colombia is notorious for a particular crop, but as a visitor you’re not very likely to visit any farm growing that! However, they are very openly proud of their coffee and many farms welcome visitors. We visited a typical farm with a guide, Juan-Paolo, who was a former employee.

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    Face of a sloth among large leaves

    A postcard from Colombia: a three-toed sloth in a city park

    February 17, 2023
    Pale blue birds with darker blue wings

    Gallery: feeding the birds of Colombia

    March 1, 2023
    Colourful mural street art depicting two women

    Gallery: the street art of Candelaria, Bogota

    February 24, 2023
  • Dark tourism,  DPRK,  Lens-Artists,  War

    Dreaming of reunification in North Korea

    March 26, 2023 / 34 Comments
    Row of huts in front of a larger modern building

    Travel is all about experiences. They may seem quite small at the time, like a chance but memorable encounter with a local person that changes your perspective on the world. Or they may seem huge, visiting an iconic world sight that you’ve dreamed about seeing for years. But whether large or small, long-planned for or serendipitous, the experiences of travel are, in my opinion, among the best to be found.

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    Factory gates with propaganda signs and various buildings

    Some short stories from the Hermit Kingdom

    November 28, 2021
    Black and white photo of sculptures of two women, one a soldier

    The Monument to the Soviet Army in Sofia

    October 22, 2022
    Long empty tunnel with subdued lighting

    Jersey under occupation: the War Tunnels

    July 28, 2021
  • Themed galleries,  Thursday Trios

    Gallery: three is an odd number

    March 24, 2023 / 45 Comments
    Three ceramic figures with long beards and moustaches

    The items in this collection of images are pretty random and some are definitely odd. Really the only thing that unites them is their threeness, although coincidentally there are three sets of very different pigs!

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    Black and white photo of a statue of two figures, one with a gun

    Gallery: pick a word (December)

    December 30, 2022
    Soft focus image of a dramatic flower

    Gallery: soft orchids from Colombia

    February 22, 2023
    Bare trees against a dramatic sky

    Gallery: a January selection

    February 6, 2022
  • Monochrome Madness,  People,  Photographic techniques,  Street photography,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: monochrome portraits and street shots

    March 22, 2023 / 46 Comments
    Man in a turban with a fishing net

    It won’t come as a surprise to anyone who follows this blog that I enjoy street photography and also taking more formal portrait shots of some of the people I encounter on my travels. It will also be no surprise that I enjoy playing around with editing. I especially like experimenting with monochrome, which can work well with characterful faces.

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    Looking down at a curved spiral staircase

    Gallery: staring up at the steps

    May 19, 2023
    Knotted string

    Gallery: unconsidered trifles (in monochrome)

    August 2, 2023
    Child playing on an otherwise empty beach

    Gallery: seeing the English coast in black and white

    August 24, 2023
  • Colombia,  Monday walks,  Photographing Public Art,  Street art,  Street photography,  Sunday Stills

    A wander through Getsemani

    March 21, 2023 / 60 Comments
    Single storey houses in bright colours

    Historically, Getsemani is the area of Cartagena where African slaves lived during colonial times. The Spanish had imported them (after they’d killed off most of the native population) to build their fortifications: the city walls and the Castillo San Felipe de Barajas. They were housed here, outside the city walls, away from the grand homes of the soldiers and merchants who controlled it.

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    Soft focus image of a dramatic flower

    Gallery: soft orchids from Colombia

    February 22, 2023
    Pale blue birds with darker blue wings

    Gallery: feeding the birds of Colombia

    March 1, 2023
    Large cobbled square surrounded by low white buildings

    A postcard from Colombia: Villa de Leyva

    February 8, 2023
  • One Word Sunday,  Street photography,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: the wheel turns and turns

    March 19, 2023 / 36 Comments
    Shiny blue motorbike

    Wherever I’ve been in the world I have of course found wheels. Simple cart wheels, bicycles and motorcycles, and of course cars, most of us rely on wheels to get around. Maybe wheels are yet another example of the many things that unify us, despite our cultural differences?

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    Monks in orange robes seated on the floor

    Tak Bat in Luang Prabang

    August 27, 2023
    Wide road with motorbikes and cars

    Gallery: dodging traffic around the world

    May 9, 2023
    Conical piles of coloured powders in front of striped fabrics

    Gallery: using triangles in photography

    August 13, 2023
  • Colombia,  Pick a Word,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: pick a word (March 2023)

    March 18, 2023 / 33 Comments
    Monkey looking down from a branch

    For most of us photos are an integral to our memories of life’s events. How we remember them is shaped by the moments we captured. In my travel photography I am usually juggling two aims. I want to capture the ‘what’, create a documentary record of each trip. But I’m also interested in ‘how’ I record and remember it, striving to create the best images I can.

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    Engraved gold band

    A postcard from Colombia: finding gold

    February 6, 2023
    Dense jungle with birds circling above

    A walk in Tayrona National Park

    April 18, 2023
    Colourfully dressed women on a pavement

    The palenqueras of Cartagena de Indias

    August 31, 2023
  • Colombia,  Mid-week Monochrome,  Monochrome Madness,  Photographic techniques,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: seeing Colombia in black and white

    March 16, 2023 / 32 Comments
    Black and white photo of a hibiscus flower

    Colombia is one of the most colourful countries I’ve ever visited, possibly the most colourful. So it seems counter-intuitive to present it in black and white. Yet however colourful the destination there are always likely to be at least a few images that I feel merit experimentation. Ones in which form dominates the composition. Ones with strong contrasts and patterns.

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    Ruined building among trees

    A postcard from Colombia: Pablo Escobar’s former lakeside retreat

    February 13, 2023
    Face of a sloth among large leaves

    A postcard from Colombia: a three-toed sloth in a city park

    February 17, 2023
    Colourfully dressed women on a pavement

    The palenqueras of Cartagena de Indias

    August 31, 2023
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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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