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        • USA
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        • DPRK
        • India
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          • Rajasthan
        • Indochina
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        • Oman
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        • United Arab Emirates
        • Uzbekistan
  • Themes
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  • Kerala,  Monday walks,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: a walk in a tea plantation

    June 14, 2022 / 29 Comments
    Track through small green bushes and slender trees

    Kerala can be regarded as consisting of three parallel environments, running north to south down the state. There is the coastal strip and backwaters, where the emphasis is on fishing and trade; the slightly higher agricultural strip where pineapples, bananas and a variety of other crops are grown; and the so-called High Range, part of the Western Ghat, where tea, coffee and spices predominate.

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    Hazy view of bamboo clump

    Periyar’s monkeys, elephants, bison and more

    October 4, 2021
    Washing drying outside a simple home on a dirt street

    Gallery: a stroll through a Kerala village

    January 18, 2022
    Man in a red turban

    The fishermen of Chowara, Kerala

    February 6, 2021
  • Food & drink,  Kerala,  Sunday Stills

    Gallery: in the Cardamom Hills of Kerala

    May 17, 2022 / 29 Comments
    Smiling lady on a bamboo ladder

    There’s a clue in the name! The Cardamom Hills in Kerala are famous for the growing of their namesake spice and many others besides. Peppercorns, vanilla, cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon and more are grown on the small farms here. But also coffee and different fruits such as banana, avocado and jack fruit.

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    Elaborately decorated table

    Eating like honoured guests in North Korea

    December 30, 2021
    Restaurant with pavement terrace

    Bologna la Grassa: a foodie’s delight

    March 20, 2021
    White window shutter and green leaves

    Eating out with a conscience in Indochina

    April 17, 2021
  • Kerala,  Monday walks,  Street photography,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: a stroll through a Kerala village

    January 18, 2022 / 28 Comments
    Washing drying outside a simple home on a dirt street

    Chowara is a small fishing community in Kerala. While tourism has come to the area, bringing visitors from elsewhere in India and further afield, it remains unspoiled and still focused on that traditional mainstay of its economy, the fish. Our hotel lay right next to the village, so it was easy one morning to forsake the lure of the pool and take a stroll with our cameras.

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    Man sitting among motorbikes in front of a garage

    A walk in Fort Kochi, Kerala

    January 12, 2022
    Man applying colourful face paint

    Gallery: a traditional Keralan Kathakali performance

    April 28, 2021
    Man in a red turban

    The fishermen of Chowara, Kerala

    February 6, 2021
  • Kerala,  Monday walks,  Photographing Public Art

    A walk in Fort Kochi, Kerala

    January 12, 2022 / 40 Comments
    Man sitting among motorbikes in front of a garage

    On a chilly January day in London I am inevitably dreaming of warmer climes. A place where the sun is shining; where a stroll through city streets delivers colour, warmth, a bit of excitement and a lot of interest.

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    Washing drying outside a simple home on a dirt street

    Gallery: a stroll through a Kerala village

    January 18, 2022
    Hazy view of bamboo clump

    Periyar’s monkeys, elephants, bison and more

    October 4, 2021
    Man applying colourful face paint

    Gallery: a traditional Keralan Kathakali performance

    April 28, 2021
  • Animals,  Birds,  Rajasthan,  Sunday Stills

    Tiger, Tiger, burning bright …

    November 8, 2021 / 44 Comments
    Landscape with trees and escarpments

    Like just about everyone else who visits, we came to Ranthambore with the aim of seeing tigers. And Ranthambore is all about the tigers. Every conversation you have here is guaranteed to start with ‘Did you see any tigers?’ The answer is quite likely to be yes, although there are, as ever with wildlife, no guarantees ...

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    Elephant calf drinking

    Meet the orphaned elephants being rescued in Nairobi

    May 15, 2021
    Two elephants in long grass

    Gallery: the animals went in two by two …           

    June 7, 2022
    Three lion cubs

    Gallery: emerging into life

    April 12, 2021
  • Animals,  Birds,  Kerala,  Monday walks

    Periyar’s monkeys, elephants, bison and more

    October 4, 2021 / 35 Comments
    Hazy view of bamboo clump

    High in the Cardamom Hills of Kerala a national park has been created, to protect the flora and fauna of the forests that surround Periyar Lake. The aim was to stop the encroachment of tea and spice plantations; to leave enough land for the tigers, elephants and other wild creatures that call this region home.

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    Black and white monkey in a tree with small orange fruits

    Gallery: wildlife in the Caño Negra refuge

    March 17, 2022
    Giraffe eating

    Giraffe Manor: getting up close and personal

    January 11, 2021
    Landscape with trees and escarpments

    Tiger, Tiger, burning bright …

    November 8, 2021
  • Architecture,  Culture & tradition,  Friendly Friday,  History,  Rajasthan

    Friendly Friday: meet a young tightrope walker in Jaisalmer

    August 27, 2021 / 49 Comments
    Banner with photo of a tightrope walker

    Perched on the top of Trikuta Hill, Jaisalmer’s honey coloured fort rises above the city like a giant sandcastle. This is the second oldest fort in Rajasthan, one of the largest in the world, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and almost unique in India in being still inhabited.

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    Red crumbling ruins

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

    August 12, 2021
    Looking across a park to an historic building with a river and modern skyscrapers beyond

    Gallery: what makes a perfect city?

    March 29, 2022
    Series of ornate arches with trees beyond

    Gallery: looking out from the shadows

    May 7, 2022
  • CBWC,  India,  People,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: people at work in Kerala and Rajasthan

    August 5, 2021 / 20 Comments
    Black and white photo of man with rickshaw

    If you enjoy candid photography there is no better country to visit, perhaps, than India. I have never been anywhere else where people are so comfortable to be photographed and that is its one downside, as they can be too eager to pose as soon as they see your camera. However, a posed photo can be as effective as a candid shot if you are photographing people within the setting of their workplace.

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    Looking directly down at a cluster of simple houses

    Gallery: ways of seeing

    April 2, 2022
    Sepia photo of motorbike riders by a cliff

    Gallery: of vintage wheels and shiny steel

    April 22, 2022
    Black and white photo of two zebras

    Gallery: seeing animals in black and white

    December 23, 2021
  • Colour,  Culture & tradition,  Rajasthan,  Sunday Stills,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: La Vie en Rose in Rajasthan

    June 14, 2021 / 30 Comments
    Group of ladies in pink saris

    The fashion editor Diana Vreeland once said, ‘Pink is the navy blue of India’ and in Rajasthan I certainly saw why she would say that. Everywhere we went the women were dressed in the most gorgeous shades of that colour. Among all the wonderful colours that I remember from our time there, it is pink – a shocking pink – that stands out.

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    Blue and white twirl effect image

    Gallery: twirling away with a new photo effect!

    May 14, 2021
    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
  • Culture & tradition,  Just One Person,  Kerala,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: a traditional Keralan Kathakali performance

    April 28, 2021 / 15 Comments
    Man applying colourful face paint

    In a simple room in old Fort Kochi, Kerala, a young man is gradually transforming himself. In one hand he holds a small mirror; in the other the fine brush with which he applies paint to his face. An audience of tourists watches agog, cameras flashing, phones held aloft.

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    Colourful manhole cover

    Gallery: the humble manhole cover as public art

    June 22, 2021
    Man beating white cloth

    A dhobi wallah in Fort Cochi, Kerala

    April 14, 2021
    Tiles painted with a bull's head

    Gallery: Majolica, the ceramic tiles of Seville

    November 27, 2021
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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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