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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
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  • Themed galleries,  Thursday Trios

    Gallery: three is an odd number

    March 24, 2023 / 33 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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    Beams of wood painted in bright colours

    Gallery: perfect patterns around the world

    December 12, 2022
    Looking across a park to an historic building with a river and modern skyscrapers beyond

    Gallery: what makes a perfect city?

    March 29, 2022
    Bird with yellow breast on a bare branch

    Gallery: Great Tit three ways

    April 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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    Large flying horse made of disjointed metal parts

    Radical Horizons: the Art of Burning Man at Chatsworth

    August 27, 2022
    Huge sculpture with outspread wings

    The Angel of the North

    December 8, 2020
    Print with blue mountains

    Dust collectors? Or precious memories?

    January 23, 2021
  • Flowers,  Gardens,  Themed galleries,  Thursday Trios

    Gallery: three flowers, three fruits

    June 16, 2022 / 32 Comments
    Three bright red flowers

    There are always flowers, and for those of us in the northern hemisphere, especially at this time of year. Is there a photographer anywhere, I wonder, who doesn't want both to see them and to capture them forever?

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    Large pink flower

    Gallery: in the pink in Colombia

    March 8, 2023
    Green valley with blue sky above

    Those blue remembered hills: Cardingmill Valley

    July 8, 2021
    Dark pink flower head

    Gallery: in the garden, Costa Rican style

    March 12, 2022
  • Birds,  Sunday Stills,  Themed galleries,  Thursday Trios

    Gallery: feathered friends in threes

    May 27, 2022 / 24 Comments
    Black and white photo of three gulls on a groyne

    A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

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    Bald Eagle on a wooden jetty

    Gallery: Bald Eagles, American Robins and more

    May 12, 2021
    Landscape with trees and escarpments

    Tiger, Tiger, burning bright …

    November 8, 2021
    Two bright green birds in a dead tree

    Bird weekly #52: birds with long tail feathers

    June 18, 2021
  • Architecture,  Themed galleries,  Thursday Trios,  Travel in general

    Gallery: building in threes

    May 13, 2022 / 23 Comments
    Three large highly decorated buildings around a central square

    According to Sherlock Holmes, 'There must be something comforting about three. People always give up after three.' Hopefully this isn’t true of architects and builders; we would all be very short of homes, schools, offices, etc. etc. if they were to give up after three!

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    Blue tiles with religious painting

    Gallery: tiles, tiles and yet more tiles!

    April 30, 2022
    Terraced fields, shadowy buildings and mountains tinged with pink

    In Bandipur, an ancient hilltop town

    December 20, 2022
    Several bridges over a river

    Newcastle: a city and its river

    February 18, 2021
  • Themed galleries,  Thursday Trios

    Gallery: three lamps lighting the way

    April 21, 2022 / 28 Comments
    Black wrought iron lamppost with three lights

    I always enjoy photographing beautiful street lamps, so for Thursday Trios this week I had a trawl through my archives to find some in groups of three. While I was about it I discovered some other lighting threesomes too. So here’s small gallery of lamp trios, indoors and out.

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    Series of ornate arches with trees beyond

    Gallery: looking out from the shadows

    May 7, 2022
    Closed sign on a shop door

    Gallery: when one door closes …

    June 20, 2022
    Collage of three photos

    Lens Artists Challenge: picking favourites

    July 30, 2022
  • Art,  Photographing Public Art,  Themed galleries,  Thursday Trios

    Gallery: tripling the impact

    April 8, 2022 / 23 Comments

    Why erect one monument when you can erect three? If something is worth commemorating then let’s make a big impact by tripling up! 

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    Bronze sculpture of two young elephants

    A little bit of Nairobi in London’s Spitalfields

    January 22, 2022
    Street with low houses and woman carrying a basket

    Weird and wonderful: forbidden culture in Cuenca

    October 24, 2021
    Group of sculpted figures among dune grass

    The Conversation Piece and the Eye

    June 11, 2022
  • Costa Rica,  Thursday Trios,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: three times the fun in Costa Rica

    March 11, 2022 / 34 Comments
    Three colourful painted wooden birds and some strings of beads

    Once you recognise that groups of three are visually among the most interesting photographic subjects you can find, you start to look for them everywhere. But they aren’t always easy to find. Having participated a couple of times in Mama Cormier’s Thursday Trios I was keen to join in again. So on our recent trip to Costa Rica I kept my eyes open for possible threesomes.

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    Large red bird with white face and beak

    Gallery: a February selection

    March 1, 2022
    Wall painting of a blue hummingbird

    Gallery: spotting street art in Sant Elena

    February 26, 2022
    Rocks and waves seen from a beach

    Corcovado: a walk in a rainforest

    February 21, 2022
  • Animals,  Themed galleries,  Thursday Trios

    Gallery: when three is better than two

    January 21, 2022 / 49 Comments
    Lioness followed by two cubs

    It's said that two is company, three a crowd. But when taking wildlife photos I’m always happy to have a third animal join the shot! Designers have long recognised that an odd number of items is more effective at capturing your gaze. Odd numbers force your eyes to move around the group and that forced movement is the heart of visual interest.

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    Two elephants in long grass

    Gallery: the animals went in two by two …           

    June 7, 2022
    Back of whale with mountainous coast behind

    Thar she blows – eventually!

    July 7, 2021
    Face of a sloth among large leaves

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

    February 17, 2023
  • People,  Themed galleries,  Thursday Trios

    Gallery: taking on a new challenge

    January 14, 2022 / 34 Comments
    Three men in white with colourful turbans

    Is there room in my blogging life for a new challenge? Possibly not, but when I came across Thursday Trios I was intrigued and decided to see what I could find in my photo archives. Today it is all about people. Finding them in groups of three isn’t always as easy as you might think. Couples are common of course, as are larger groups, but threes less so.

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    Man in a red turban

    The fishermen of Chowara, Kerala

    February 6, 2021
    Gable of brick building surrounded by trees

    In search of Billy the Kid

    November 5, 2020
    Two men in a rowing boat

    Keeping North Korea clean and beautiful

    March 13, 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

Some topics I’ve touched on

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