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  • Chile,  Deserts

    El Tatio: a steaming landscape

    September 16, 2021 / 24 Comments
    Steam rising from several geysers at sunrise

    It takes a certain amount of sacrifice and discomfort to visit El Tatio. For one thing, you will sacrifice sleep, as all tours leave very early in the morning. The steam from the geysers is most active and visible at dawn, so you need to be there before sunrise. You must also be prepared to be very cold and to cope with altitude; the geyser field is at 4,200 metres above sea level. So is it worth it? Oh yes!

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    Blue lake with flamingos feeding

    Around the world in ten photos: day two

    December 18, 2020
    Man passing wall painting of orange bird

    Gallery: searching for street art in Santiago, Chile

    August 7, 2021
    View of beach with icebergs and mountains beyond

    Glacier Grey – or should that be turquoise?

    January 1, 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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    Group of men sitting among fishing boats on a beach

    Gallery: a traditional fishing village in Bakau

    April 10, 2021
    Scruffy rusting ferry with trucks and people on board

    Barely afloat: the Banjul ferry

    September 1, 2021
    Large heron on top of a mangrove tree

    Gallery: the birds of the Gambia

    February 22, 2021
  • Chile,  Photographing Public Art,  Street art,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: searching for street art in Santiago, Chile

    August 7, 2021 / 21 Comments
    Man passing wall painting of orange bird

    If like me you enjoy a wander around an interesting neighbourhood just as much (if not more) as seeing the major sights of a city, Santiago’s Barrio Lastarria is likely to appeal. This is the perfect area to stroll through and enjoy for its ambiance and street life. And it's a great district in which to photograph street art.

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    Blue lake with flamingos feeding

    Around the world in ten photos: day two

    December 18, 2020
    Landscape with flamingos, water, salt flats and mountains

    Gallery: the flamingos of the Salar de Atacama

    April 24, 2021
    Two flamingos feeding

    Gallery: reflecting on birds

    March 27, 2021
  • Chile,  Landscape,  Lens-Artists

    To touch the sky: the Torres del Paine

    May 30, 2021 / 52 Comments
    Mountain landscape

    As a lover of mountain scenery, I have long wished to visit the high Andes of Patagonia, and specifically the Torres del Paine National Park in Chile. This is named for the three distinctive peaks at its heart, the Torres or Towers, but these are just a few of the majestic mountains contained within its boundaries. Add numerous lakes, glaciers and rivers, and this is a landscape to tug at the heart strings and demand attention.

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    Blue lake with flamingos feeding

    Around the world in ten photos: day two

    December 18, 2020
    Man passing wall painting of orange bird

    Gallery: searching for street art in Santiago, Chile

    August 7, 2021
    View of beach with icebergs and mountains beyond

    Glacier Grey – or should that be turquoise?

    January 1, 2021
  • Bird Weekly,  Birds,  Chile,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: the flamingos of the Salar de Atacama

    April 24, 2021 / 36 Comments
    Landscape with flamingos, water, salt flats and mountains

    The only way to properly appreciate the vastness of Chile’s Salar de Atacama would be to fly over it; but a visit at ground level offers a spectacular sight of the varied colours of this unworldly landscape. Before you visit the Atacama you will no doubt read or be told that it is the driest non-polar desert in the world, with no significant rainfall for 400 years. It is surprising then to arrive at the Laguna Chaxa and see so much water!

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    Black and white kingfisher eating a fish

    Gallery: some birds that eat fish

    March 18, 2021
    Two flamingos feeding

    Gallery: reflecting on birds

    March 27, 2021
    Young Herring Gull with roof tops in background

    Gallery: meet Steven the Seagull and some friends

    May 27, 2021
  • Bird Weekly,  Birds,  CFFC,  Chile,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: reflecting on birds

    March 27, 2021 / 39 Comments
    Two flamingos feeding

    Maybe a desert isn’t the obvious place to look for bird reflections, or indeed reflections of any kind. Deserts are dry, no? And the Atacama Desert in Chile is especially so. In fact, it’s the driest non-polar desert in the world, and has had no significant rainfall for 400 years. And yet, the shallow waters of its barren salt flats offer picture-perfect reflections of feeding flamingos.

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    Yellow and green birds on a branch, black and white background

    Gallery: playing with a selective colour technique

    June 1, 2021
    Bald Eagle on a wooden jetty

    Gallery: Bald Eagles, American Robins and more

    May 12, 2021
    Two pelicans swimming with daisies beyond

    Gallery: the birds of St James’s Park

    July 13, 2021
  • Culture & tradition,  History,  Rapa Nui

    The Birdmen of Rapa Nui

    January 15, 2021 / 2 Comments
    Low stone houses on a hillside

    After the deforestation of Rapa Nui, and the destruction of the moai, probably as a result in part at least of war between the tribes, the people needed to believe in something; if their ancestors could no longer protect them, who would? The answer was, one of their own.

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    Lady in pink head covering in front of grass roof

    A warm welcome in the Thar Desert

    February 11, 2021
    Dark table with lots of small dishes

    Gallery: Dining in (Japanese) style ~ kaiseki

    March 6, 2021
    Large building with green oriental roof

    A look inside the Grand People’s Study House

    November 18, 2021
  • Chile,  Landscape,  Sunday Stills,  Travel galleries

    Glacier Grey – or should that be turquoise?

    January 1, 2021 / 20 Comments
    View of beach with icebergs and mountains beyond

    Battling across the dark grey stony beach, hardly able to stay upright in the wind, which was whipping grit into my eyes and cheeks, I wondered if it would all be worth it. But one look at the turquoise blue icebergs floating on the water to my left reassured me that it would be. And it was.

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    Blue lake with flamingos feeding

    Around the world in ten photos: day two

    December 18, 2020
    Two flamingos feeding

    Gallery: reflecting on birds

    March 27, 2021
    Steam rising from several geysers at sunrise

    El Tatio: a steaming landscape

    September 16, 2021
  • Birds,  Chile,  Deserts,  Ten photos

    Around the world in ten photos: day two

    December 18, 2020 / 18 Comments
    Blue lake with flamingos feeding

    The landscape here is a series of horizontal stripes in blue, green, beige and brown. It creates a calm backdrop for the flamingos as they feed, their pale pink feathers reflected in the still pools of water.

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    Two bright green birds in a dead tree

    Bird weekly #52: birds with long tail feathers

    June 18, 2021
    River shaded by tall trees

    Misadventure on the Rio Nosara

    March 9, 2022
    Fierce-looking owl

    Gallery: owl portraits, striped and speckled

    June 12, 2021
  • History,  Rapa Nui

    Rapa Nui: the birthplace of the moai

    December 1, 2020 / 14 Comments
    Hillside with large stone heads

    Because the moai of Rapa Nui represent real people, each has a different expression, something that becomes obvious the more you study them. But they were all ‘born’ of the same place, carved from the rock of the volcano, Rano Raraku. Its compressed volcanic ash, tuft, is soft and easy to carve – essential, as the natives had no metal to carve with, only stone tools.

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    Stone church and blue sky

    The wonders of Bulgaria’s Bachkovo Monastery

    February 10, 2022
    Small tree with pueblo houses behind

    Taos Pueblo: home of the Red Willow People

    February 9, 2021
    Gable of brick building surrounded by trees

    In search of Billy the Kid

    November 5, 2020
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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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