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  • Home
  • Destinations
    • England
      • London
      • Newcastle-upon-Tyne
    • Europe
      • Albania
      • 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
        • 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
      • Thursday Doors
  • About me
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  • Flowers,  London,  Newcastle-upon-Tyne,  The Changing Seasons,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: a May selection (2023)

    May 30, 2023 / 14 Comments
    Pale tulip against a dark background

    May is an especially lovely month in England. At the start of the month spring is at its height, while by the end there are hints of the summer to come. With spring being late this year, the early part of May felt more like April, with chilly winds and frequent showers. But the trees were green at last after the winter bareness, and there were flowers everywhere!

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    Large red poppy

    Gallery: is it wild if we plant it?

    July 2, 2021
    Bright yellow daisies

    Gallery: winter is dead

    May 5, 2023
    Green valley with blue sky above

    Those blue remembered hills: Cardingmill Valley

    July 8, 2021
  • Architecture,  Lens-Artists,  London,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: London from the top of the Shard

    May 28, 2023 / 51 Comments
    View of a city with winding river and skyscrapers

    When the Shard opened in London in 2012 it did so to quite a fanfare, and to a rather damp squib (in my view) of a laser show. But despite the laser show disappointing, the tower never has. Although not to everyone’s taste (the fractured ‘shards’ at the top that give it its name divide opinion), I have always found it striking.

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    Sculpture of a cat on a roof

    Gallery: meet the many cats of Riga

    September 25, 2021
    White painted cathedral

    A city shaped by earthquakes

    October 27, 2021
    Large square with historic buildings and tourists

    In ancient Bhaktapur, a royal capital

    November 24, 2022
  • London,  Nature Photo Challenge,  Plants,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: finding peace in the park

    May 26, 2023 / 47 Comments
    Bee on yellow flowers

    Like many Londoners (and indeed town dwellers worldwide) I discovered the pleasures of our local park during the pandemic lockdowns. Whether on our permitted visits to the shops or on the also permitted daily walks close to home, Walpole Park was our refuge and our delight.

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    Large stone building with towers and arched windows

    Ealing, the Queen of the Suburbs?

    December 10, 2022
    Purple flower against a bright green backdrop

    Gallery: a November (and October) selection

    December 1, 2022
    Cluster of pink flowers

    Gallery: inspired by spring blossoms

    March 26, 2022
  • Albania,  England,  Flowers,  Rivers,  Street photography,  The Changing Seasons,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: an April selection (2023)

    May 2, 2023 / 41 Comments
    White blossom and deep blue sky

    As well as being a successful novelist and poet, Vita Sackville-West is known for the beautiful gardens she created at Sissinghurst in Kent. She will have welcomed April as all gardeners do … but maybe not the April we have had this year.

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    Two boys cycling past a utility box painted with a figure from South Park

    Gallery: boxing clever in Tirana

    May 14, 2023
    A large 1960s style home

    The legacy of Enver Hoxha

    May 13, 2023
    White statue of a saint against a blue sky

    Sweet freedoms in Tirana

    May 8, 2023
  • Flowers,  London,  Nature Photo Challenge,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: tulips from London, not Amsterdam

    April 6, 2023 / 56 Comments
    Red, yellow and purple tulips

    While many people head to Holland to see the tulips, we have London’s Holland Park. There the Dutch Gardens are planted with formal beds edged with low hedges and overflowing with tulips every spring.

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    White flowers with dark purple centre patches

    Gallery: a July selection

    August 2, 2022
    Pink blossom

    Gallery: April in Ealing

    April 11, 2021
    Bee on a bright pink flower

    Gallery: a selection of summer bugs

    August 3, 2021
  • Flowers,  London,  Street photography,  The Changing Seasons,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: a March selection (2023)

    April 1, 2023 / 31 Comments
    Purple flower among green leaves

    With a slow start to the spring this year it’s felt at times as if March was coming in more like a polar bear than a lion! We had sharp winds, frosts and even some snow as far south as London, although nothing like what they had further north. And even when the weather started to warm up, sunshine was in short supply.

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    Bright yellow daisies

    Gallery: winter is dead

    May 5, 2023
    Pink and white flowers against a deep blue sky

    Gallery: the magnificent magnolias of March

    March 23, 2022
    Pale tulip against a dark background

    Gallery: a May selection (2023)

    May 30, 2023
  • London,  Newcastle-upon-Tyne,  The Changing Seasons,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: a January selection (2023)

    February 2, 2023 / 42 Comments
    Bare tree and water with stone pier and small lighthouse

    Thankfully this January didn’t bring snow to London, but it was certainly more than cold enough to make any feet and fingers glow! Personally I can’t wait for the warmer days of spring, although we’re not hanging around here for that but are headed elsewhere in a hunt for heat!

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    River with boats and houses on the far bank

    Gallery: on our doorstep

    June 12, 2022
    Large stone building with towers and arched windows

    Ealing, the Queen of the Suburbs?

    December 10, 2022

    Gallery: encountering elephants in London parks

    July 6, 2021
  • Lens-Artists,  London,  Monday walks

    A city stroll in London

    January 22, 2023 / 51 Comments
    Stone carving of a dragon on an old building in front of a modern one

    The oft-quoted line, ‘when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life’ comes from a discussion between Johnson and James Boswell about whether or not Boswell's affection for London would wear thin should he be living there as Johnson did, rather than enjoying the city on occasional visits.

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    Abstract view of sparkling blue water

    Gallery: water, water everywhere …

    February 20, 2022
    Small concrete bridge over water with several boats

    Gallery: getting from A to B

    September 9, 2022
    Low cliffs and palm trees silhouetted against the sun

    Gallery: when the light is right

    August 23, 2021
  • Coast & seascapes,  England,  Monday walks,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: blowing the cobwebs away at Druridge Bay

    January 4, 2023 / 29 Comments
    Wintery beach scene

    Just a few miles north of built-up post-industrial Tyneside lies the wide expanse of Druridge Bay. Its seven miles of sands are lined with sand dunes and are just perfect for a winter walk. The landscape is an interesting mix, with wind turbines visible in the distance but otherwise feeling rather remote.

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    Boardwalk with sea beyond and yellow flowers

    A spring walk by the sea in Faro

    April 19, 2022
    Man surfing in rocky sea at sunset

    Gallery: taking the plunge

    January 10, 2023
    Back of whale with mountainous coast behind

    Thar she blows – eventually!

    July 7, 2021
  • London,  Newcastle-upon-Tyne,  The Changing Seasons,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: a December selection

    January 1, 2023 / 56 Comments
    Gold bauble on a frosted artificial tree

    December in London this year has delivered frost, a touch of snow, but also mild and damp weather; a little bit of everything. Of course it has also brought Christmas lights and decorations.

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    Purple flower against a bright green backdrop

    Gallery: a November (and October) selection

    December 1, 2022
    Mural of girl's face with birds for hair

    Gallery: a street art walk in Shoreditch

    November 6, 2021
    Bee on yellow flowers

    Gallery: finding peace in the park

    May 26, 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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