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  • Destinations
    • England
      • London
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    • Europe
      • Albania
      • Austria
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      • Estonia
      • France
        • Paris
      • Germany
      • Iceland
      • Italy
      • Jersey
      • Latvia
      • Norway
      • Portugal
      • Spain
        • Seville
      • Switzerland
      • Ukraine
    • Beyond
      • Africa
        • Botswana
        • Cape Verde
        • Gambia
        • Kenya
        • Madagascar
        • 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
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  • About me
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  • Architecture,  Chicago,  Sunday Stills,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: the skyscrapers of Chicago

    October 16, 2023 / 39 Comments
    Cluster of skyscrapers both old and new

    The mass production of inexpensive steel in the mid 19th century made it possible for urban planners to bring to life the idea of skyscrapers. And it all started in Chicago. The method had been tested in Liverpool, England, on the five storey Oriel Chambers building. But it was in Chicago that the capacity of steel to support taller buildings was first exploited.

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    Row of old shops and cafes

    A stroll around Las Vegas

    October 19, 2021
    Looking down a spiral staircase

    Gallery: the perfect simplicity of a spiral staircase

    October 10, 2021
    Red crumbling ruins

    ‘Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!’

    August 12, 2021
  • Africa,  Crafts,  Lens-Artists,  Sunday Stills,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: Africa on display

    October 10, 2023 / 77 Comments
    Small colourful woven baskets

    Everywhere you walk, every place you go is full of art, explicit or hidden! If you can see them, you will be the richest art collector and your memory will be the richest art gallery! [Mehmet Murat Ildan, Turkish playwright]

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    Busy African market

    Gallery: a morning at Serekunda Market

    January 27, 2021
    Tree with dramatic sky

    Gallery: lone trees in the landscape

    July 22, 2021
    Two bright green birds in a dead tree

    Bird weekly #52: birds with long tail feathers

    June 18, 2021
  • Lens-Artists,  Photographic techniques,  Street photography,  Sunday Stills,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: faces in the crowd

    August 22, 2023 / 65 Comments
    Group of of people climbing steps, one looking back

    With 7.888 billion people in our world it shouldn’t be hard to find someone interesting to photograph. Yet, among so many, how do we find the ones that stand out from the crowd? Which are the faces that speak to us? Which seem to tell a story that can be captured in a single shot? Perhaps it’s their clothing, their expression or what they are doing?

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    Balconies with Comuna 13 in large colourful letters

    Finding peace in Medellín

    March 6, 2023
    Fountain in a small park with elegant houses around

    A stroll through more of the Marais

    September 18, 2023
    Hairy animal holding a tree trunk

    The oddities of sloths

    March 6, 2022
  • Coast & seascapes,  Sunday Stills,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: the lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer

    August 8, 2023 / 48 Comments
    Waves crashing on a beach

    Unfortunately summer seems to have deserted the UK this August, as it did in July! We’re told it’s the jet stream to blame. In July it shifted southwards, flowing directly across the UK and Ireland. This is close to its usual winter position and carries low pressure systems directly towards us. It also meant that warm air was contained across central and southern Europe, creating a severe heatwave, while dragging in cooler air over us.

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    Dense jungle with birds circling above

    A walk in Tayrona National Park

    April 18, 2023
    Woman on grassy cliff looking out at passing ships

    Gallery: I must go down to the seas again

    June 10, 2022
    Boardwalk with sea beyond and yellow flowers

    A spring walk by the sea in Faro

    April 19, 2022
  • Birds,  Photographic techniques,  Sunday Stills,  Themed galleries,  Writers' Quotes Wednesday

    Gallery: seeing double

    July 27, 2023 / 37 Comments
    Swan reflected in deep green water

    There is something about a reflection that draws us as photographers. Is it the illusion of seeing double? Or the fact that we can capture double the beauty?

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    Bird with yellow breast on a bare branch

    Gallery: Great Tit three ways

    April 5, 2022
    Bald Eagle on a wooden jetty

    Gallery: Bald Eagles, American Robins and more

    May 12, 2021
    Black and white monkey in a tree with small orange fruits

    Gallery: wildlife in the Caño Negra refuge

    March 17, 2022
  • Nature and wildlife,  Photographic techniques,  Sunday Stills,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: small is beautiful

    July 19, 2023 / 33 Comments
    Close-up of a shiny green fly on a leaf

    One of the pleasures of an addiction to photography is that you start to see photos wherever you look! And by look, I mean REALLY look. While it’s wonderful to be able to photograph sweeping landscapes, iconic buildings, wild (and not so wild) animals, interesting people … look closer and you will find even more subjects.

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    Silver moon reflected in a dark sea

    Gallery: fly me to the moon

    October 4, 2023
    Black and white photo of umbrella-shaped seed heads

    Gallery: nature by design

    November 14, 2021
    Savannah landscape under blue sky

    A walk on Palm Island: hippos, hogs and crocs

    May 4, 2021
  • Culture & tradition,  History,  Lens-Artists,  Sunday Stills,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: kitchens in time and place

    July 4, 2023 / 56 Comments
    Bright yellow gourds on a wooden bench

    A kitchen can tell you a lot about a home. Whether it’s a basic one in a simple home or a much more elaborate one in a grand mansion, the kitchen will reflect not only the physical nature of the house but also the lives of the people who live or lived there.

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    Man applying colourful face paint

    Gallery: a traditional Keralan Kathakali performance

    April 28, 2021
    Looking over an Italian hill town

    The Palio della Balestra in Gubbio: a centuries-old tradition

    November 26, 2020
    Large illuminated reindeer model

    Celebrating Christmas in London and (a little way) beyond

    December 6, 2021
  • Coast & seascapes,  Lens-Artists,  Norway,  Sunday Stills,  Travel galleries,  Writers' Quotes Wednesday

    Gallery: in the land of the Midnight Sun

    June 8, 2023 / 53 Comments
    Snowy mountains and water seen from the sea

    If you’re looking for summer warmth this isn’t the place to come. On my recent trip to Trondheim (south of the Arctic Circle) and Tromsø (north of it) I experienced some sun, yes, but also rain, hail, sleet and snow!

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    Rocky coastline

    Stunning landscapes of Iceland: the day the sun shone

    October 29, 2021
    Man in a red turban

    The fishermen of Chowara, Kerala

    February 6, 2021
    Dense jungle with birds circling above

    A walk in Tayrona National Park

    April 18, 2023
  • Colour,  Sunday Stills,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: purple blowing my mind

    May 15, 2023 / 36 Comments
    Purple flowers against the sky

    Purple is the colour of wealth and royalty. Its rich tones call to mind the trappings of majesty and ceremony. Its blend of red and blue means that it lies carries messages both of tranquillity and of passion. Purple is also the colour of creativity, as it fosters creativity by stimulating our senses while also promoting the calmness needed for thoughtful observation and introspection. And it just happens to be my favourite colour too!

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    Two men in Arab robes on a sand dune

    Gallery: blackness against the light

    January 30, 2023
    Cobbled street of colourful houses

    Gallery: Guatapé, town of the zócalos

    April 11, 2023
    Blue and turquoise mosaic

    Gallery: feeling the blues

    November 11, 2021
  • Albania,  Architecture,  Monday walks,  Sunday Stills

    Sweet freedoms in Tirana

    May 8, 2023 / 38 Comments
    White statue of a saint against a blue sky

    Under the dictatorship of Enver Hoxha many freedoms were denied to Albanians. Among them the freedom to travel abroad, the freedom to express dissent, and the freedom to worship. Hoxha declared that ‘the only religion of Albania is Albanianism’.

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    A large 1960s style home

    The legacy of Enver Hoxha

    May 13, 2023
    Men at small tables, with drinks

    Gallery: the people of Tirana in black and white

    April 26, 2023
    Books on a market stall

    A postcard from Tirana: the flea market

    April 24, 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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