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  • Destinations
    • England
      • London
      • Newcastle-upon-Tyne
    • Europe
      • 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
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      • Life in Colour
      • One-to-Three
      • Ten photos
      • Thursday Trios
      • Thursday Doors
  • About me
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  • 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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    Orthodox cathedral at the end of a wide street

    Gallery: Sofia’s St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral

    March 7, 2021
    Low chairs around a table, dark wood wall units

    Welcome to the 1980s in Bulgaria

    October 20, 2022
    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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    Group of deer with antlers

    Studley Royal, a very English country garden

    September 13, 2022
    Purple flower on a long stem

    Gallery: roses are red, violets are blue …

    April 19, 2021
    Landscape with church and autumn trees

    Signs of autumn at Emmetts Garden

    September 27, 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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    Man with a long beard, sunglasses and hat

    Going back to Paris, and to the Place Dauphine

    September 14, 2021
    Statue of winged horse and horseman

    Gallery: the Jardins des Tuileries in the rain

    May 17, 2021
    Silhouette of a bike against the sun, leaning against a tree

    Gallery: seeing Paris in black and white

    September 22, 2022
  • Mid-week Monochrome,  Paris,  Photographic techniques,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: seeing Paris in black and white

    September 22, 2022 / 24 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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    Black and white photo of a city view with a large cathedral

    Gallery: seeing Sofia in black and white

    October 13, 2022
    Black and white photo of a modern building and silhouetted bridges

    Gallery: seeing the Sage in black and white

    December 28, 2022
    Silhouette of a flower

    Gallery: textures of Nepal in monochrome

    November 21, 2022
  • Paris,  Street photography,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: on the streets of Paris again

    September 21, 2022 / 25 Comments
    Lady reading a book at a cafe table

    Jean Cocteau said that, 'In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator'. I disagree. For me, there are few more pleasurable ways to pass the time in Paris than sitting on the terrace of a pavement café watching the world pass by.

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    Red Metro sign against a backdrop of leaves

    Gallery: a September selection

    October 3, 2022
    Silhouette of a bike against the sun, leaning against a tree

    Gallery: seeing Paris in black and white

    September 22, 2022
    Mosaic on a wall with face of Van Gogh

    Gallery: off the beaten track in Paris

    June 8, 2021
  • Monday walks,  Paris,  Street art,  Street photography

    A stroll through the Marais

    September 19, 2022 / 33 Comments
    Large cafe with pavement tables and teddy bears at the windows

    The Marais is one of the loveliest and most fashionable districts of Paris. The name means ‘marshland’ because the original village here was built on a marsh, but there are no signs of that these days! Instead there are elegant buildings, pretty squares and of course the Parisian staples of great little cafés.

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    Two images of narrow city streets

    A walk in Seville’s picturesque Triana district

    December 2, 2021
    Single storey houses in bright colours

    A wander through Getsemani

    March 21, 2023
    Typical Italian stone village surrounded by trees

    On a walk through Serra San Quirico

    July 21, 2021
  • Architecture,  Lens-Artists,  Paris

    The best views of Paris?

    September 12, 2022 / 45 Comments
    Panoramic cityscape

    It’s hard to ignore the Tour Montparnasse. This 210 metre high skyscraper dominates the skyline on the southern fringes of central Paris. Its monolithic appearance has often been criticised as incongruous or inappropriate for this proudly elegant city.

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    Large wooden curved structure

    Gallery: Seville’s mushrooms, art or architecture?

    December 4, 2021
    Looking up at a spiral staircase

    Gallery: monochrome curves

    March 20, 2022
    Several bridges over a river

    Newcastle: a city and its river

    February 18, 2021
  • Paris,  Photographing Public Art,  Street art,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: a street artist at work in Paris

    September 10, 2022 / 38 Comments
    Mural in black and white with quotations

    We only occasionally get the chance to watch a street artist at work. Somehow these works of art seem to appear almost magically on our streets, created perhaps overnight while we sleep? Some of course take many hours, even days, to complete. But others are much simpler and while they may have less impact still brighten our day.

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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
    Mosaic on a wall with face of Van Gogh

    Gallery: off the beaten track in Paris

    June 8, 2021
    Panoramic cityscape

    The best views of Paris?

    September 12, 2022
  • Paris,  Postcards from the road

    Postcard from Paris: le Metro

    September 3, 2022 / 21 Comments
    Looking from a station platform into a tunnel

    A year ago we were in Paris, on our first trip abroad since the pandemic had started. It felt strange, but good, to be travelling again after almost two years.

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    Panoramic cityscape

    The best views of Paris?

    September 12, 2022
    View of cathedral on far side of river, with large crane

    Rising from the ashes: Notre Dame in 2021

    September 30, 2021
    Large cafe with pavement tables and teddy bears at the windows

    A stroll through the Marais

    September 19, 2022
  • Architecture,  Paris

    Le Sacré Coeur de Paris

    April 10, 2022 / 38 Comments
    Looking up at a white stone church with several domes

    The Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Paris, to give it its full name, seems to divide opinion. Built only in the early 20th century, I have seen some commentators criticise it as an eye-sore. Others (actually often the same people) abhor the reasons behind its construction. Its inspiration was the defeat of French troops during the Franco-Prussian War, which some felt was due to spiritual rather than political causes.

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    Looking up at a spiral staircase

    Gallery: monochrome curves

    March 20, 2022
    Black and white photo of street signs

    Gallery: meet me on the corner

    September 2, 2022
    Rustic blue house

    Stepping back in time in Bulgaria

    June 5, 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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