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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
        • 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
      • 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 Doors
      • Thursday Trios
  • About me
    • Contact me
    • ‘Always Write’ interview
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  • Landscape,  Sunday Stills,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: the sound of silence

    January 25, 2023 / 54 Comments
    Moon shine reflected in the sea and framed by shadowy trees

    How do you photograph silence? Photographing a sound seems challenging enough, being invisible; but the absence of sound even more so.

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    Yellow dahlia with raindrops on the petals

    Gallery: favourite nature and landscape photos of 2021

    January 1, 2022
    Black lava beach, crashing waves and offshore rock formations

    Gallery: photographing the four elements

    January 31, 2022
    River with small boats and rocky cliff

    A day on the Nam Ou

    July 3, 2021
  • Colour,  Sunday Stills,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: how many shades of grey?

    January 16, 2023 / 46 Comments
    Rock stack in the mist

    Grey probably gets a bad name as a colour. We think of it as rather dull. We associate it with gloomy weather, with an absence of light and brightness. But it has its admirers. Hopefully I can demonstrate that if you look closely you will find beauty in grey.

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    Colourful paper lanterns at night

    Gallery: let there be light

    September 21, 2021
    Coloured glass bottles in a collage

    Gallery: through a glass darkly

    October 25, 2022
    Blue and white twirl effect image

    Gallery: twirling away with a new photo effect!

    May 14, 2021
  • Coast & seascapes,  People,  Sunday Stills,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: taking the plunge

    January 10, 2023 / 25 Comments
    Man surfing in rocky sea at sunset

    There are plenty of quotes that encourage us to take the plunge. We all understand the concept. Be brave, don’t hesitate, don’t hold back. We can apply this to our working lives (go for that promotion!), and our personal lives (don’t wait, travel, book that flight, train for that marathon!)

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    Woman on grassy cliff looking out at passing ships

    Gallery: I must go down to the seas again

    June 10, 2022
    Old boat and rail track on a shingle beach

    Gallery: at the edge of England

    November 11, 2020
    Roof line of yellow beach hut with yacht and seagull ornaments

    Gallery: exploring beaches, near and far

    July 7, 2022
  • Sunday Stills,  Travel in general,  Writers' Quotes Wednesday

    My travel year in review, 2022

    January 2, 2023 / 70 Comments
    Collage of travel photos

    All of us who love to travel, and are fortunate enough to be able to do so, will I hope be looking back on a year filled with both familiar and foreign places. For most of us, 2022 was the year in which we began to feel comfortable travelling again. When, despite a few new forms to fill in and masks to be worn, perhaps reluctantly, on planes, the world opened up again and we could scratch that travel itch, relieve that homesickness ‘for the places we have never known’.

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    Pine tree branch with out of focus mountains behind

    A day in the mountains: driving the North Cascades

    July 19, 2021
    Detail of traditional Chinese roof with small ornamental figures

    Gallery: never jaded by jade

    March 14, 2022
    Lake set among pine forests

    The Lewis Burn inlet walk at Kielder Water

    March 22, 2021
  • Colour,  Sunday Stills,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: feeling the blues, again

    December 16, 2022 / 39 Comments
    Round blue ceramic roof tile with a dragon image

    Some time ago I shared some favourite ‘blue’ images, accompanied by a quote from a favourite Blue song. But the world has an inexhaustible supply of shades of blue. So I’ve trawled through the photos from recent trips, and some older ones, to see what blues I could find that haven’t been shared before.

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    Coloured glass bottles in a collage

    Gallery: through a glass darkly

    October 25, 2022
    Lots of metal lanterns hanging

    Gallery: all that glitters is not gold (or silver)

    December 15, 2021
    Wooden hut painted in candy stripes

    Gallery: colourful beach huts in Whitstable and Broadstairs

    November 20, 2020
  • History,  London,  Sunday Stills

    Ealing, the Queen of the Suburbs?

    December 10, 2022 / 35 Comments
    Large stone building with towers and arched windows

    In 1902 Charles Jones, Ealing’s borough surveyor, published a book. In it he referred to Ealing as the ‘Queen of Suburbs’. His aim of course was to promote the area as a place to live.

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    Half-timbered building seen above a hedge

    A misty morning visit to Stokesay Castle

    July 14, 2021
    Small round temple-style structure among trees

    King John was not a good man: Runnymede

    March 21, 2021
    Painting of young slave

    Roots: dark history or tourist trap?

    October 29, 2020
  • Monday walks,  Nepal,  Squares,  Sunday Stills,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: the old town of Dhulikhel

    November 29, 2022 / 48 Comments
    Old brick houses with men in an entrance talking

    Paved streets gently wind uphill, lined with brick houses three or more stories high. Every door, every window is surrounded by exquisitely carved wood. Locals sit chatting, their day’s work over, or watch from an upper window.

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    Avenue lined with small stone pillars and distant mountains

    Wat Phou: walking in the footsteps of the king

    May 23, 2022
    Group of deer with antlers

    Studley Royal, a very English country garden

    September 13, 2022
    Savannah landscape under blue sky

    A walk on Palm Island: hippos, hogs and crocs

    May 4, 2021
  • Culture & tradition,  Nepal,  Postcards from the road,  Sunday Stills

    A postcard from Nepal: Manakamana

    November 2, 2022 / 23 Comments
    Woman praying at a small shrine

    We rode a cable car to the top of a mountain to find a Hindu temple that draws thousands of believers. The small town that has sprung up to serve their needs is full of shops selling garlands, offerings and even chickens and goats for sacrifices.

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    Looking over an Italian hill town

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

    November 26, 2020
    Close-up of head sculpted in bronze

    Purple Haze: remembering Jimi Hendrix

    July 30, 2021
    Man beating white cloth

    A dhobi wallah in Fort Cochi, Kerala

    April 14, 2021
  • Colour,  Sunday Stills,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: through a glass darkly

    October 25, 2022 / 37 Comments
    Coloured glass bottles in a collage

    Arguably it’s the fragility of glass that makes it so beautiful. Not only does it look lovely, we know how easily we could lose it. Glass has two main properties; we can look through it, or we can see the world reflected in it.

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    Row of impala drinking from a river

    Monochrome in colour: creating an impact

    November 1, 2020
    Detail of traditional Chinese roof with small ornamental figures

    Gallery: never jaded by jade

    March 14, 2022
    White marble carving of an elephant and various people

    Gallery: does white exist?

    January 17, 2022
  • Indochina,  Street photography,  Sunday Stills,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: fleeting moments in Indochina

    October 18, 2022 / 35 Comments
    Small child looking out of a window

    Our visit to Indochina was only just over two years ago, yet in some ways it feels like a world away. A world barely touched by Covid, in which we didn’t question our ability to travel. Took it for granted, perhaps? Looking back at my photos I wonder why we didn’t realise that the disease already causing deaths and chaos in China would spread to engulf the whole world. Were we like ostriches, our heads in the sand? Or was it such an alien concept that we couldn’t envisage it?

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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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