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    • England
      • London
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    • Europe
      • Austria
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        • 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
        • 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
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        • Flowers
        • Trees, forests and woodland
    • People
      • Culture & tradition
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      • Monochrome Madness
      • One Word Sunday
      • Photographing Public Art
      • Pick a Word
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      • The Changing Seasons
      • Words of Wisdom
      • Cee’s challenges
        • CBWC
        • CFFC
        • CMMC
    • General challenges
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      • Writers’ Quotes Wednesday
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  • Art,  Bulgaria,  Photographing Public Art,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: some of the many monuments of Sofia

    October 15, 2022 / 25 Comments
    Sculpture of a lion outside a building with columns

    Sofia may have moved its many communist era monuments to a dedicated museum, but that doesn’t mean that the city is short of interesting public art pieces. And there is quite a variety, from the purely artistic to the historically significant.

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    Gallery: encountering elephants in London parks

    July 6, 2021
    Very large green snail sculpture

    Gallery: giant snails invading Riga!

    November 12, 2021
    Large wooden curved structure

    Gallery: Seville’s mushrooms, art or architecture?

    December 4, 2021
  • Bulgaria,  Photographing Public Art,  Street art,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: more street art from Sofia

    October 8, 2022 / 41 Comments
    Wall painting of a sleeping purple cat

    It’s no secret that I am a big fan of street art. I don’t mean scrawled graffiti, or even more precisely worked ‘tags’. I mean art. Like many cities today, Sofia offers a dedicated street art tour; we saw signs advertising it in several places. But we chose not to take the tour, instead preferring to seek out street art at our own pace.

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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
    Rustic blue house

    Stepping back in time in Bulgaria

    June 5, 2021
    Stone church and blue sky

    The wonders of Bulgaria’s Bachkovo Monastery

    February 10, 2022
  • 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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    Lady reading a book at a cafe table

    Gallery: on the streets of Paris again

    September 21, 2022
    Colourful cafe with two men talking outside

    Gallery: on the streets of Paris

    September 9, 2021
    Man with a long beard, sunglasses and hat

    Going back to Paris, and to the Place Dauphine

    September 14, 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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    Panoramic cityscape

    A sunny Sunday walk in Belleville

    September 28, 2021
    Black and white photo of a river with bridges and city buildings

    Following the River Tyne to Ouseburn

    April 20, 2021
    Wintery beach scene

    Gallery: blowing the cobwebs away at Druridge Bay

    January 4, 2023
  • 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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    Panoramic cityscape

    A sunny Sunday walk in Belleville

    September 28, 2021
    Looking up at a white stone church with several domes

    Le Sacré Coeur de Paris

    April 10, 2022
    Silhouette of a bike against the sun, leaning against a tree

    Gallery: seeing Paris in black and white

    September 22, 2022
  • Art,  England,  Photographing Public Art

    Radical Horizons: the Art of Burning Man at Chatsworth

    August 27, 2022 / 61 Comments
    Large flying horse made of disjointed metal parts

    Burning Man is a unique event that takes place every year in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, USA. But we are not in the deserts of Nevada; we are among the green hills of England’s Peak District.

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    Sculpture of a lion outside a building with columns

    Gallery: some of the many monuments of Sofia

    October 15, 2022
    Man standing in front of frescoes, talking

    An encounter in Zurich: a person with a passion

    March 3, 2021
    Three large sculptures in a landscape

    Gallery: the Yorkshire Sculpture Park

    September 4, 2021
  • England,  Photographing Public Art,  Street art,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: on the trail of Knaresborough’s Town Windows

    August 20, 2022 / 39 Comments

    How many windows is too many? That was the question facing many seventeenth century property owners. In 1696 a window tax was introduced in England and Wales. The more windows a building had, the more its owner had to pay.

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    Wartime sign about spies

    Cracking the code at Bletchley Park

    June 19, 2021
    Fierce-looking owl

    Gallery: owl portraits, striped and speckled

    June 12, 2021
    Stone statue on a plinth on a grassy hillside

    Admiral Lord Collingwood, a forgotten hero

    April 25, 2021
  • Art,  Photographing Public Art,  Themed galleries,  Thursday Trios

    Gallery: art comes in threes

    July 22, 2022 / 29 Comments
    Street art with three Mona Lisa inspired murals

    For my next set of Thursday Trios I am focusing on art. I’ve borrowed a quote from Camus, a French author and philosopher, an absurdist and existentialist. I've also arguably borrowed a certain sense of the absurd for this gallery, but I don’t claim it to be philosophical in any sense!

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    Street with low houses and woman carrying a basket

    Weird and wonderful: forbidden culture in Cuenca

    October 24, 2021
    Sculpture of a lion outside a building with columns

    Gallery: some of the many monuments of Sofia

    October 15, 2022
    Stylised female statue head

    The art on the Tyne

    December 11, 2021
  • Art,  England,  Photographing Public Art

    The Conversation Piece and the Eye

    June 11, 2022 / 39 Comments
    Group of sculpted figures among dune grass

    Some sculptures are all the better for being in just the right place; think of the Angel of the North or Statue of Liberty, for example. And in its own less dramatic way that is true of the Conversation Piece in South Shields.

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    Very large green snail sculpture

    Gallery: giant snails invading Riga!

    November 12, 2021

    Gallery: encountering elephants in London parks

    July 6, 2021
    Street art with three Mona Lisa inspired murals

    Gallery: art comes in threes

    July 22, 2022
  • Cape Verde,  Photographing Public Art,  Street art,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: Cape Verde street art

    June 3, 2022 / 27 Comments
    Large mural of woman's head wearing a colourful headscarf

    Most people visit Cape Verde for the classic three Ss: sun, sea and sand. We came mainly for the first of these, in search of some February warmth. In truth it wasn’t as warm as we’d hoped, so maybe it was a good thing we had relatively little interest in the other two.

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    Looking down on faded yellow-painted buildings

    Campo da Morte Lenta: Camp of the Slow Death

    March 31, 2021
    Lady in bright carnival costume

    Carnival parade in Praia, Cape Verde

    January 18, 2021
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Some favourite photos

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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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