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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
          • 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
      • Bird Weekly
      • Friendly Friday
        • The Friendly Friday Challenge: how to join in
      • Friday’s Foods of the World
      • Just One Person
      • Life in Colour
      • Mid-week Monochrome
      • One-to-Three
      • Ten photos
      • Thursday Trios
      • Thursday Doors
  • About me
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    • ‘Always Write’ interview
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  • Pick a Word,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: pick a word (August 2023)

    September 2, 2023 / 26 Comments
    Small round tower on a rocky islet

    To focus on a single word and bring it to life in an image; it sounds simple, but … This month’s Pick a Word choices come from Botswana, China, Oman, Guatemala and Peru. Whatever else they make you feel, you could well be dizzy travelling so far so quickly!

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    Black and white photo of a lady smoking a cigar

    Gallery: pick a word (August)

    August 30, 2022
    Man with a beard in sunglasses, wearing a hat

    Gallery: pick a word (July)

    July 28, 2022
    Black and white photo of tiny fungi growing out of lichen

    Gallery: pick a word (September)

    October 6, 2022
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    Gallery: pick a word (July 2023)

    July 28, 2023 / 30 Comments
    Black and white photo of a tree in a park

    The writer, the painter and the photographer have the power to ‘shake up a familiar scene’. Through their eyes we often discover something anew even though we may have seen a similar scene many times before.

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    A subway station platform seen through columns supporting the roof

    Gallery: pick a word (January 2023)

    January 28, 2023
    Man with a beard in sunglasses, wearing a hat

    Gallery: pick a word (July)

    July 28, 2022
    Black and white photo of tiny fungi growing out of lichen

    Gallery: pick a word (September)

    October 6, 2022
  • Pick a Word,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: pick a word (June 2023)

    June 24, 2023 / 46 Comments
    View of rocky islet framed by leaves

    I like to caption my photos; I like to illustrate my words. But when it comes to Paula’s monthly Pick a Word, my task is to illustrate her words. She assures me that I ‘don’t have to do all of them, one is enough’. But I always like a challenge so feel compelled to try!

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    Monkey looking down from a branch

    Gallery: pick a word (March 2023)

    March 18, 2023
    Small round tower on a rocky islet

    Gallery: pick a word (August 2023)

    September 2, 2023
    Man with a beard in sunglasses, wearing a hat

    Gallery: pick a word (July)

    July 28, 2022
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    Gallery: pick a word (April 2023)

    May 1, 2023 / 19 Comments
    Rocky outcrop in a green landscape with a stone wall running up the hill

    Surely our photographs help to bring words to life, and help them to live on? As always, Paula’s monthly Pick a Word challenge prompts us to match a photo to a single word and bring it to life.

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    Black and white photo of tiny fungi growing out of lichen

    Gallery: pick a word (September)

    October 6, 2022
    Black and white photo of a statue of two figures, one with a gun

    Gallery: pick a word (December)

    December 30, 2022
    View of rocky islet framed by leaves

    Gallery: pick a word (June 2023)

    June 24, 2023
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    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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    Colourfully painted houses on a cobbled street

    A postcard from Colombia: a street corner in Guatapé

    February 15, 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
  • 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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    Black and white photo of a statue of two figures, one with a gun

    Gallery: pick a word (December)

    December 30, 2022
    Black and white photo of a tree in a park

    Gallery: pick a word (July 2023)

    July 28, 2023
    Man with a beard in sunglasses, wearing a hat

    Gallery: pick a word (July)

    July 28, 2022
  • Pick a Word,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: pick a word (December)

    December 30, 2022 / 27 Comments
    Black and white photo of a statue of two figures, one with a gun

    One of my favourite poems, by one of my favourite poets, is about words. Some may say that’s not so surprising, when I like to use so many of them! And now again I am facing the task posed by Paula in her monthly Pick a Word challenge. Five words, five photos inspired by those words.

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    Man with a beard in sunglasses, wearing a hat

    Gallery: pick a word (July)

    July 28, 2022
    Black and white photo of a lady smoking a cigar

    Gallery: pick a word (August)

    August 30, 2022
    Black and white shot of a hill with terraces and bushes

    Gallery: pick a word (November)

    November 26, 2022
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    Gallery: pick a word (November)

    November 26, 2022 / 23 Comments
    Black and white shot of a hill with terraces and bushes

    Oh dear! How many times have I fallen precisely into the trap of marvelling at the beauty of terraced fields, forgetting how tough it must be to farm these hillsides.

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    Distant mountains with colourful fabric in foreground

    Exploring the temple town of Manakamana

    December 6, 2022
    Colourful lorry

    Gallery: kings of the road in Nepal

    December 3, 2022
    Old brick houses with men in an entrance talking

    Gallery: the old town of Dhulikhel

    November 29, 2022
  • Pick a Word,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: pick a word (September)

    October 6, 2022 / 50 Comments
    Black and white photo of tiny fungi growing out of lichen

    According to Horace, 'A picture is a poem without words'. That would seem to be a good motto for a photography blog. But I like to write (and talk!) almost as much as I like to take photos. So my posts are usually a mix of the two, and I leave my readers to decide whether the pictures or the text say the most.

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    Man with a beard in sunglasses, wearing a hat

    Gallery: pick a word (July)

    July 28, 2022
    Small round tower on a rocky islet

    Gallery: pick a word (August 2023)

    September 2, 2023
    View of rocky islet framed by leaves

    Gallery: pick a word (June 2023)

    June 24, 2023
  • Pick a Word,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: pick a word (August)

    August 30, 2022 / 32 Comments
    Black and white photo of a lady smoking a cigar

    Thomas Jefferson said, 'The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.' This is a maxim I would do well to follow, but I too rarely succeed in doing so.

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    Or what about ...?

    Black and white photo of a tree in a park

    Gallery: pick a word (July 2023)

    July 28, 2023
    Rocky outcrop in a green landscape with a stone wall running up the hill

    Gallery: pick a word (April 2023)

    May 1, 2023
    Monkey looking down from a branch

    Gallery: pick a word (March 2023)

    March 18, 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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