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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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  • Architecture,  Friendly Friday,  Landscape,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: meet me on the corner

    September 2, 2022 / 28 Comments
    Black and white photo of street signs

    There is something about the idea of a corner. Who knows what might be around it? Whether on a city street or a quiet country lane, there is a sense of anticipation about what might be revealed.

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    Looking up at a spiral staircase

    Gallery: monochrome curves

    March 20, 2022
    Terraced fields, shadowy buildings and mountains tinged with pink

    In Bandipur, an ancient hilltop town

    December 20, 2022
    Panoramic cityscape

    The best views of Paris?

    September 12, 2022
  • 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
    Two men in a rowing boat

    Keeping North Korea clean and beautiful

    March 13, 2021
    Forest in the mist

    Barking up the right tree in Costa Rica

    March 4, 2022
  • Friendly Friday,  Photographic techniques,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: abstract shapes and colours

    July 16, 2022 / 42 Comments
    Colourful striped fabrics

    Try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, a house, a field, or whatever. Merely think, 'Here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow,' and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact colour and shape, until it gives you your own impression of the scene before you.

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    Green weed in fast flowing water

    Gallery: what is green?

    June 18, 2022
    Large elephant walking towards camera

    Elephant encounter: flashback to our first safari

    June 26, 2021
    Rear of white car

    California dreaming: our first US road trip

    May 23, 2021
  • Cambodia,  Friendly Friday,  Photographic techniques

    Friendly Friday Challenge: think about your viewpoint

    July 1, 2022 / 49 Comments
    Header image with two small photos

    Before photographing your subject, it’s worth taking time to think about where you will shoot it from. Our viewpoint has a massive impact on the composition of our photo, and as a result it can greatly affect the message that the shot conveys. As well as shooting from eye level, consider photographing from high above, down at ground level, from the side, from the back, from a long way away, from very close up, and so on.

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    Red lantern, blue wall, green shutters

    2020: my (pandemic) year in review

    January 3, 2021
    Stone ruin surrounded by trees

    Gallery: Ta Prohm, Angkor’s Royal Monastery

    October 7, 2021
    Ornamental gate

    The Killing Fields of Cambodia

    June 23, 2022
  • Friendly Friday,  Landscape,  Plants,  Themed galleries,  Trees, forests and woodland

    Gallery: what is green?

    June 18, 2022 / 24 Comments
    Green weed in fast flowing water

    Green is the colour of nature, the colour of spring and summer. It is restful on the eye and calming to the soul. I think it must have inspired more poets and authors than any other colour. And there are almost as many shades of green in our world as there are writers to describe them. Or indeed photographers to try to capture and preserve their beauty!

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    Man and dog on a bench

    Recycled Spirits of Iron (Ex Nihilo)

    May 20, 2021
    Header image with two small photos

    Friendly Friday Challenge: think about your viewpoint

    July 1, 2022
    Large red poppy

    Gallery: is it wild if we plant it?

    July 2, 2021
  • Friendly Friday,  Travel in general

    The charms of travelling by train

    June 5, 2022 / 49 Comments
    People crossing train tracks as a train approaches a station

    I think I have always liked travelling by train. As a child I lived and grew up in London, so journeys on the Underground were regular occurrences. My childhood bedroom looked out across a playing field to Ruislip Gardens station in the depths of so-called Metroland. Of course there were also childhood journeys on ‘real’ trains. Before my father learned to drive and bought our first car we would take an annual trip to the seaside by train, usually to Westgate on Sea in Kent.

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    Banner with two photos

    Friendly Friday Challenge: all or nothing?

    August 12, 2022
    Red and black igiana

    The ‘Christmas’ marine iguanas of Española Island

    December 6, 2020
    Stony landscape with rough road

    Jebel Shams, the tallest mountain in Oman

    May 8, 2021
  • Friendly Friday,  Photographic techniques,  Themed galleries

    Friendly Friday Challenge: leading lines

    May 6, 2022 / 70 Comments
    Banner with two small photos

    Edward Weston said that, 'To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk.' He is right of course, but that doesn’t mean it isn't helpful to be aware of these ‘rules’.

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    Rear of white car

    California dreaming: our first US road trip

    May 23, 2021
    Banner with photo of a man in Arab dress

    Friendly Friday: meet some amazing guides

    November 19, 2021
    Large elephant walking towards camera

    Elephant encounter: flashback to our first safari

    June 26, 2021
  • Friendly Friday,  Travel in general

    Travelling through the pages of books

    April 27, 2022 / 40 Comments
    Shelf of travel guide books

    Perhaps the next best thing to travelling is reading about travelling. Whether travelling through the pages of books, browsing internet travel sites, or reading travel blog posts; armchair travelling is a pleasure in itself.

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    Large illuminated reindeer model

    Celebrating Christmas in London and (a little way) beyond

    December 6, 2021
    Large group of teenagers

    My first taste of adventure: a 1970s camping trip

    August 14, 2021
    Brightly painted yellow car raised on a platform

    Getting our kicks in Santa Rosa, NM

    June 15, 2021
  • Friendly Friday,  Portugal,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: underfoot in the Algarve

    April 12, 2022 / 44 Comments
    Cobbled pavement with black stones depicting a castle

    On our recent visit to Faro I found myself often looking down at my feet as I walked around. This was partly out of necessity; there were plenty of broken or uneven cobbles to trip me up! But it was also due to my fascination with the traditional patterns of the Portuguese pavements.

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    Hand holding knife and straw shavings

    Gallery: getting up close and personal

    September 24, 2021
    Shelf of travel guide books

    Travelling through the pages of books

    April 27, 2022
    Black and white photo of street signs

    Gallery: meet me on the corner

    September 2, 2022
  • Friendly Friday,  Photographic techniques

    Friendly Friday Challenge: framing your subject

    March 25, 2022 / 77 Comments

    In setting my previous Friendly Friday Challenge about the ‘rule of thirds’, I should perhaps have started with a disclaimer. We talk about the rules of photography but what we really mean are guidelines. Guidelines that help you to create compositions pleasing to the eye; guidelines that help you create impact and draw the viewer in.

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    Colourful striped fabrics

    Gallery: abstract shapes and colours

    July 16, 2022
    Rear of white car

    California dreaming: our first US road trip

    May 23, 2021
    Large group of teenagers

    My first taste of adventure: a 1970s camping trip

    August 14, 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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