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  • Destinations
    • England
      • London
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    • Europe
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      • 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
          • Chicago
          • 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
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      • Nature Photo Challenge
      • One Word Sunday
      • Photographing Public Art
      • Pick a Word
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      • Cee’s challenges
        • CBWC
        • CFFC
        • CMMC
    • General challenges
      • Happy Place Happy Space
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  • Monochrome Madness,  Paris,  Photographic techniques,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: seeing more of Paris in black and white

    September 27, 2023 / 37 Comments
    View along a pedestrian bridge to a building with a dome

    On our recent visit to Paris much of the time we simply walked. With no need to tick off the famous sights we instead strolled some of our favourite streets, explored new ones and checked out some less well-known places.

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    Looking down at a spiral staircase

    Tallinn’s TV tower in black and white

    April 13, 2023
    Carvings of lions and cherubs above a doorway

    Gallery: seeing Lviv in black and white

    May 24, 2023
    Men at small tables, with drinks

    Gallery: the people of Tirana in black and white

    April 26, 2023
  • Architecture,  History,  Lens-Artists,  Monday walks,  Paris,  Street photography

    A stroll through more of the Marais

    September 18, 2023 / 57 Comments
    Fountain in a small park with elegant houses around

    The Place des Vosges must be one of the most beautiful corners of this beautiful city. Like the Place Dauphine it owes its existence to the city planning ambitions of Henri IV. It was laid out as an elegant residential square where the upper echelons of Parisian society could live and socialise. Much has changed since then, not least due to the Revolution, but it remains as elegant as ever.

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    Row of elegant buildings in cream, blue and white

    Gallery: the Art Nouveau gems of Riga

    August 20, 2021
    Black and white photo of a modern building and silhouetted bridges

    Gallery: seeing the Sage in black and white

    December 28, 2022
    Row of old shops and cafes

    A stroll around Las Vegas

    October 19, 2021
  • Architecture,  Happy Place Happy Space,  One Word Sunday,  Paris,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: a window on Paris

    September 17, 2023 / 23 Comments
    Arc of round stained glass windows

    When out with my camera I often ‘shop’ for windows, seeking out ones that might make interesting images. Whether peering through them, looking for reflections or simply enjoying the geometry of their frames, windows make great subjects for photography.

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    Looking down at a spiral staircase

    Tallinn’s TV tower in black and white

    April 13, 2023
    Simple candlestick with slim coloured candles

    A tale of two cathedrals

    June 18, 2023
    Blue tiles with religious painting

    Gallery: tiles, tiles and yet more tiles!

    April 30, 2022
  • Monday walks,  Paris,  Street photography

    Welcome back to Paris

    September 12, 2023 / 64 Comments
    Man reading a book on a stone wall by a river and bridge

    When you first arrive in a new city, you can’t wait to get out and explore. There are new sights to be seen, new experiences to be had. But if it’s somewhere you’ve visited many times before there isn’t that urgency. New sights can wait for tomorrow. Today, on arrival, your desire is rather to reconnect, to regain that sense of feeling at home. And for me, in Paris, that means a walk by the Seine.

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    Exterior of brick mosque with dome and minaret

    The Square of Religious Tolerance in Sofia

    April 6, 2021
    Boy and his father in a shop

    Gallery: the friendly people of Khimsar

    July 13, 2022
    Large mural showing a face peering over a graffiti wall

    History and street art in Tromsø

    June 27, 2023
  • Happy Place Happy Space,  Paris

    Up, up and away in Paris

    September 9, 2023 / 70 Comments
    Balloon tethered to the ground in front of a modern glass building

    Of course if you want to see Paris from a high viewpoint you can do as many tourists do and go up the Eiffel Tower. Or you can stand on the steps in front of the Sacré Coeur on the hill of Montmartre. And once those obvious tourist boxes are ticked, there are still plenty of other options.

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    Arc of round stained glass windows

    Gallery: a window on Paris

    September 17, 2023
  • History,  Paris,  Postcards from the road

    A postcard from Paris: statue of Henri IV

    September 7, 2023 / 23 Comments
    Bronze statue of a man on a horse

    Henri IV was a much-loved king of France, reigning from 1589 to 1610, when he was assassinated. Baptised a Catholic but raised a Protestant by his mother, he tried to balance the interests of both. Four years after his death a statue of him was placed on the Île de la Cité where it is crossed by the Pont Neuf, facing the Place Dauphine.

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    Orthodox cathedral at the end of a wide street

    Gallery: Sofia’s St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral

    March 7, 2021
    Exterior of brick mosque with dome and minaret

    The Square of Religious Tolerance in Sofia

    April 6, 2021
    Large castle on a rocky outcrop

    The great fort of Bebbanburg

    May 28, 2022
  • Bulgaria,  London,  Paris,  The Changing Seasons,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: a September selection

    October 3, 2022 / 25 Comments
    Red Metro sign against a backdrop of leaves

    There is a theme emerging in these monthly round-ups, a theme of bookends! I’ve already pointed out that while July was bookended by happy gatherings of family and friends, August was similarly bookended with funerals. And now we come to September and we are back to happier bookends: city breaks.

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    Low chairs around a table, dark wood wall units

    Welcome to the 1980s in Bulgaria

    October 20, 2022
    Small church on a wooded mountainside

    Asen’s Fortress and the Church of the Holy Mother of God

    August 18, 2021
    Stone church and blue sky

    The wonders of Bulgaria’s Bachkovo Monastery

    February 10, 2022
  • Gardens,  Paris,  People,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: a sunny afternoon in the Jardins du Luxembourg

    September 30, 2022 / 36 Comments
    Gardens with flower beds, lawns and statues

    If you want to understand the people of a city a great place to start is in one of their parks. Seeing them relaxing, at play, you can appreciate not how different they are from you but how similar.

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    White flowers with dark purple centre patches

    Gallery: a July selection

    August 2, 2022
    Half-timbered building seen above a hedge

    A misty morning visit to Stokesay Castle

    July 14, 2021
    Small purple blossoms

    Gallery: a bouquet of purple flowers

    August 11, 2021
  • Paris,  Photographing Public Art,  Street art,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: yet more street art in Paris

    September 23, 2022 / 54 Comments
    Portraits created with black, white and yellow dots

    I never tire of wandering the streets of Paris; there is always so much to see and to photograph. From elegant buildings to quirky details and of course plenty of street art.

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    Silhouette of a bike against the sun, leaning against a tree

    Gallery: seeing Paris in black and white

    September 22, 2022
    Looking from a station platform into a tunnel

    Postcard from Paris: le Metro

    September 3, 2022
    Fountain in a small park with elegant houses around

    A stroll through more of the Marais

    September 18, 2023
  • Mid-week Monochrome,  Paris,  Photographic techniques,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: seeing Paris in black and white

    September 22, 2022 / 25 Comments
    Silhouette of a bike against the sun, leaning against a tree

    Paris, like most cities, is full of colour. Street art, flower markets, shop windows, mellow old stone, green (or autumnal) trees … I could go on. But it is also full of striking details that translate well to monochrome images.

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    Silhouette of a flower

    Gallery: textures of Nepal in monochrome

    November 21, 2022
    Black and white landscape with red tinted Japanese gate

    Gallery: seeing Japan in black and white

    January 26, 2023
    Men at small tables, with drinks

    Gallery: the people of Tirana in black and white

    April 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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