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  • Home
  • 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
      • Friday’s Foods of the World
      • Life in Colour
      • One-to-Three
      • Ten photos
      • Thursday Trios
      • Thursday Doors
  • About me
    • Contact me
    • ‘Always Write’ interview
    • My love of travel
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      • Photographic techniques
      • My photography journey
      • Video
    • Disclaimer & GDPR
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  • Lens-Artists,  My photography,  Photographic techniques,  Themed galleries,  Travel in general

    Gallery: the roads I take

    March 12, 2023 / 66 Comments
    Road through a mountain pass

    It’s only eighteen months since Anne asked us to define our ‘photography groove’. My answer then was travel photography, and now that John asks much the same question about our favourite style or genre, the road we most often take, my answer remains the same.

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    White wooden doors with painting of girl in red dress

    Double dipping: a challenges overload!

    January 9, 2022
    Orthodox cathedral at the end of a wide street

    Gallery: Sofia’s St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral

    March 7, 2021
    Statue of two soldiers shaking hands

    Gallery: favourite miscellaneous photos of 2021

    January 7, 2022
  • Destinations,  My photography

    A year in numbers

    August 30, 2021 / 49 Comments
    Signpost with numbers against a lake backdrop

    A year ago I was at home, and bored with the limits put on our travels by the pandemic. Travel outside the UK was clearly going to be off the agenda for a while yet, so what to do? Maybe this was the perfect time to start a new challenge, one I had been considering for a while. I would launch a blog!

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    Seascape with icebergs and snowy shores

    Travel inspiration – where does it come from?

    August 8, 2021
    Road between graasy fields and woods, leading to mountains

    Gallery: getting away, or, there’s a wonderful world out there!

    July 18, 2021
  • Friendly Friday,  Landscape,  USA,  Video

    Video: big skies and red rock country

    May 29, 2021 / 32 Comments
    Rock formation with arch and pinnacle

    Towering cliffs and deep deep canyons, delicate orange arches, slender pinnacles, balancing rocks … Stone doing what you would have thought stone could never do. And always that blue never-ending sky.

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    View down to an Italian town square and hills beyond

    Postcards from the past: a small town in Italy

    November 14, 2020
    Red and black igiana

    The ‘Christmas’ marine iguanas of Española Island

    December 6, 2020
    Banner with photo of a man in Arab dress

    Friendly Friday: meet some amazing guides

    November 19, 2021
  • My photography,  Photographic techniques,  Sunday Stills,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: Seeing the world in black and white

    March 15, 2021 / 25 Comments
    Black and white photo of a man in a turban

    The world as we see it is full of colour. So it may seem counter-intuitive to take black and white photos, but by draining an image of colour you can draw attention to its other qualities. Texture, contrasting tones, patterns and shapes can all be more obvious in a monochrome shot.

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    Black and white photo of a model village

    My photography journey: more than fifty years of images

    February 1, 2021
    Road through a mountain pass

    Gallery: the roads I take

    March 12, 2023
    Signpost with numbers against a lake backdrop

    A year in numbers

    August 30, 2021
  • Botswana,  Friendly Friday,  Landscape,  Video

    Video: flying to the Okavango Delta

    February 27, 2021 / 30 Comments
    Aerial view of green swampland with river channels

    Sometimes how you travel to a place can be as much fun as the place itself. The small planes that serve the various camps in Botswana’s Okavango Delta operate much like buses, dropping off and picking up passengers along the way. For some people, a flight in a small prop plane would be their worst nightmare; for me it was almost as much of an attraction as the destination itself!

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    Savannah landscape under blue sky

    A walk on Palm Island: hippos, hogs and crocs

    May 4, 2021
    Dead tree and long grass

    A walk on Sausage Island: it’s all about the elephants

    May 25, 2021
    Close up of a giraffe's eye

    Gallery: making eyes at me

    June 27, 2022
  • Lens-Artists,  My photography,  Photographic techniques

    My photography journey: more than fifty years of images

    February 1, 2021 / 59 Comments
    Black and white photo of a model village

    Today, everyone is arguably a photographer, shooting images with their phone cameras almost every day. But when I started, as a child in the 1960s, photography was a hobby, and a relatively expensive one at that. Only the keenest photographers went on the journey from taking family snapshots to an obsession with getting the best from a camera, trying to create something both memorable and beautiful.

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    Performers in a stadium with a backdrop image of Kim Jong Un

    The Land of the People

    December 13, 2021
    Waterfall with bird flying in front

    Gallery: photographing poetry in motion

    August 16, 2022
    Golden temple reflected in a lake

    Exploring the temple gardens of Kyoto

    May 9, 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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