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    • England
      • London
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        • 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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  • About me
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  • Botswana,  Landscape,  Lens-Artists,  Themed galleries,  Zimbabwe

    Gallery: under African skies

    May 21, 2023 / 51 Comments
    Dramatic cloudscape reflected in water

    No two skies are the same, and no single sky stays the same for long. Maybe that’s why, as photographers, we are so drawn to capture them? An ever-evolving, ever captivating subject that is available to us all. We only have to look up!

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    Close up of a giraffe's eye

    Gallery: making eyes at me

    June 27, 2022
    Orange sunset with water reflections

    The sun sets and the sun rises over the Chobe River

    June 21, 2021
    Wetlands in low sun

    Gallery: mokoro rides in the Okavango Delta

    February 3, 2021
  • Culture & tradition,  Monday walks,  Senegal

    Living on borrowed time in Djiffer

    January 11, 2023 / 30 Comments
    Men with fishing nets on colourfully painted wooden rowing boats

    At the southern tip of a spit of land on the coast of Senegal, which separates the sea from the waters of the Saloum, lies the small village of Djiffer. Its narrow strip of houses is thus squeezed between the waters of the Atlantic to the west and the lagoons of the Sine Saloum delta to the east. The Atlantic Ocean to the west is continually nibbling at its sandy shores in an effort to meet up with the waters of the Saloum. People living here are doing so on…

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    Large group of dancers in traditional Korean green dress

    Gallery: dancing on the streets of Pyongyang

    November 28, 2020
    Man frying insects at a food stall

    Exploring the street food of Phnom Penh

    April 3, 2021
    Woman praying at a small shrine

    A postcard from Nepal: Manakamana

    November 2, 2022
  • Animals,  Botswana,  Kenya,  Lens-Artists,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: making eyes at me

    June 27, 2022 / 51 Comments
    Close up of a giraffe's eye

    Giraffes’ eyes are beautiful but they can look rather mournful. Maybe that’s a touch of anthropomorphism, attributing human emotions to an animal? And yet …

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    Cheetah head and shoulders

    With the beautiful Africat cheetahs in Namibia

    May 16, 2021
    Three lion cubs

    Gallery: emerging into life

    April 12, 2021
    Hairy animal holding a tree trunk

    The oddities of sloths

    March 6, 2022
  • Cape Verde,  Photographing Public Art,  Street art,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: Cape Verde street art

    June 3, 2022 / 27 Comments
    Large mural of woman's head wearing a colourful headscarf

    Most people visit Cape Verde for the classic three Ss: sun, sea and sand. We came mainly for the first of these, in search of some February warmth. In truth it wasn’t as warm as we’d hoped, so maybe it was a good thing we had relatively little interest in the other two.

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    Lady in bright carnival costume

    Carnival parade in Praia, Cape Verde

    January 18, 2021
    Looking down on faded yellow-painted buildings

    Campo da Morte Lenta: Camp of the Slow Death

    March 31, 2021
  • Culture & tradition,  Morocco,  Sunday Stills

    Day into night in the Jemaa el-Fnaa

    December 20, 2021 / 25 Comments
    View from above of large square with market stalls

    Sooner or later it seems, all paths in Marrakesh lead to the Jemaa el-Fnaa. The name (sometimes spelled Djemaa el Fna or Jamaa el Fna) means ‘Assembly of the Dead’ in Arabic; but a visit here suggests life in all its vibrancy. To call this the city’s main square doesn’t begin to do justice to it. This is a meeting place, a shopping centre, a performance space, a happening. It is surrounded by restaurants and cafés, each with a roof terrace to offer a ringside seat from where to observe…

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    Two men in fancy dress

    Gallery: Comic and Games festival in Lucca

    November 8, 2020
    Looking down at a station platform

    Taking a ride on the Pyongyang Metro

    July 10, 2021
    Print with blue mountains

    Dust collectors? Or precious memories?

    January 23, 2021
  • Landscape,  Monday walks,  Zimbabwe

    Mosi-oa-Tunya, the Smoke that Thunders

    December 8, 2021 / 31 Comments
    Large waterfall glimpsed through spray

    The indigenous name for Victoria Falls is Mosi-oa-Tunya or The Smoke that Thunders, and it is a fitting name. The constant spray is as thick as smoke, and the roar of the water is indeed like thunder.

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    Mountain scene with caption

    My love of travel: some special moments

    March 14, 2021
    Looking out from a cave towards valley with pine trees

    In the footsteps of the Mogollon at Gila Cliff Dwellings

    May 31, 2021
    Water reflecting the sky with clouds and low sun

    The sun will come out tomorrow (and I will photograph it)

    November 9, 2020
  • Botswana,  Landscape,  Lens-Artists,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: taking a wider view in Botswana

    September 12, 2021 / 30 Comments
    Two lions on a sandy river bank

    Looking for the ‘ah-ha’ seems to me to be an excellent mantra for any photographer. Although in truth I sometimes search for that not by stepping back but by zooming in. For me the important thing is not to settle for the obvious, for the first angle that occurs to me.

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    Aerial view of green swampland with river channels

    Video: flying to the Okavango Delta

    February 27, 2021
    Wetlands in low sun

    Gallery: mokoro rides in the Okavango Delta

    February 3, 2021
    Bed decorated with leaves and seeds

    Wherever I lay my hat … (continued)

    January 6, 2021
  • Gambia,  People,  Sunday Stills

    Barely afloat: the Banjul ferry

    September 1, 2021 / 35 Comments
    Scruffy rusting ferry with trucks and people on board

    The river Gambia runs through the heart of the country of the same name, splitting it into two narrow strips, north and south of the river. To the west is the Atlantic Ocean; on all other sides the country is surrounded by Senegal.

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    Low cliffs and palm trees silhouetted against the sun

    Gallery: when the light is right

    August 23, 2021
    Man in white African dress walking past painted building

    Wide Open Walls in a Gambian forest

    March 19, 2021
    Looking down at decking by a rocky coastline

    Wherever I lay my hat …

    January 5, 2021
  • Lens-Artists,  Morocco,  Street photography

    Keep walking … even on crutches!

    August 29, 2021 / 39 Comments
    Shadow of lady with crutches

    We were just twenty-four hours into our first visit to Marrakesh. We had arrived in the city with high expectations. It had been on our wish-list for some years; and as this was the first holiday of any length that we had been able to take together for over a year, we were determined to enjoy it. But on the evening of our first day I stumbled on the edge of a tiled basin in a fancy restaurant and broke a bone in my foot. I spent the rest of…

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    Stone statue on a plinth on a grassy hillside

    Admiral Lord Collingwood, a forgotten hero

    April 25, 2021
    Road through a mountain pass

    Gallery: the roads I take

    March 12, 2023
    Large mural of orangutan with a baby

    Gallery: the colourful street art of Brighton

    October 17, 2021
  • Gambia,  Lens-Artists,  Photographic techniques,  Rapa Nui,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: when the light is right

    August 23, 2021 / 29 Comments
    Low cliffs and palm trees silhouetted against the sun

    Studio photographers can spend a lot of time getting the light just right, changing the angles, adjusting the brightness and colour. Landscape photographers don’t have that luxury; we have to work with the light we have, or wait until it changes naturally.

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    Large heron on top of a mangrove tree

    Gallery: the birds of the Gambia

    February 22, 2021
    Busy African market

    Gallery: a morning at Serekunda Market

    January 27, 2021
    Man in white African dress walking past painted building

    Wide Open Walls in a Gambian forest

    March 19, 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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