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        • Tanzania
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        • Ecuador
          • Galapagos Islands
        • Guatemala
        • Jamaica
        • USA
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          • New York City
          • Washington State
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        • DPRK
        • India
          • Kerala
          • Rajasthan
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          • Cambodia
          • Laos
          • Vietnam
        • Japan
        • Nepal
        • Oman
        • Syria
        • United Arab Emirates
        • Uzbekistan
  • Themes
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    • Art
      • Crafts
      • Street art
    • Colour
    • Dark tourism
    • Eco-tourism
    • Food & drink
    • Gardens
    • History
      • Ruins
      • War
    • Landscape
      • Coast & seascapes
      • Deserts
      • Mountains
      • Rivers
    • Nature and wildlife
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      • Birds
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        • Flowers
        • Trees, forests and woodland
    • People
      • Culture & tradition
      • Street photography
    • Travel in general
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      • Monochrome Madness
      • One Word Sunday
      • Photographing Public Art
      • Pick a Word
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      • Cee’s challenges
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  • 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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    Low chairs around a table, dark wood wall units

    Welcome to the 1980s in Bulgaria

    October 20, 2022
    Rustic blue house

    Stepping back in time in Bulgaria

    June 5, 2021
    Mural of Barack Obama shaking hands with another man

    Gallery: Staro Zhelezare, another street art village

    March 24, 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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    Gardens with flower beds, lawns and statues

    Gallery: a sunny afternoon in the Jardins du Luxembourg

    September 30, 2022
    Looking up at a white stone church with several domes

    Le Sacré Coeur de Paris

    April 10, 2022
    Roof tops, trees and white domes

    Gallery: a walk around Montmartre

    September 12, 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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    Boardwalk with sea beyond and yellow flowers

    A spring walk by the sea in Faro

    April 19, 2022
    Rocky beach and palm trees

    On the Pacific coast in Drake Bay

    February 28, 2022
    Group of deer with antlers

    Studley Royal, a very English country garden

    September 13, 2022
  • 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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    Lady reading a book at a cafe table

    Gallery: on the streets of Paris again

    September 21, 2022
    Red heart and street sign with church dome beyond

    Gallery: hearts and skulls on the streets of Paris

    September 10, 2021
    Portraits created with black, white and yellow dots

    Gallery: yet more street art in Paris

    September 23, 2022
  • 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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    Large red poppy

    Gallery: is it wild if we plant it?

    July 2, 2021
    Wintery beach scene

    Gallery: blowing the cobwebs away at Druridge Bay

    January 4, 2023
    Ruined stone church

    A stroll around Fountains Abbey

    August 29, 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
  • London,  Photographing Public Art,  Street art,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: some street art in London’s Brick Lane

    May 14, 2022 / 48 Comments
    Brick Lane street sign and small butterfly mural

    Brick Lane, in London’s East End, was once among the poorest slums in the capital. It takes its name from the 15th century brick and tile production based in this area. Like all poor city districts it became a magnet for various groups of immigrants over the centuries. First Jews, then French Huguenots, then Irish established communities here over the centuries, and later Bangladeshi-Sylheti immigrants settled here and made the street famous for its restaurants.

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    Pink and white flowers against a deep blue sky

    Gallery: the magnificent magnolias of March

    March 23, 2022
    Back of a head wearing Union Jack hat

    When the Olympics came to London, 2012

    February 23, 2021
    Large stone building with towers and arched windows

    Ealing, the Queen of the Suburbs?

    December 10, 2022
  • Photographing Public Art,  Portugal,  Street art,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: art on the streets of Faro

    April 15, 2022 / 37 Comments
    Mural with three faces

    Never go back, they say. And in fact, I rarely do. But occasionally I make an exception, and especially if I have fallen for a place while visiting without my husband and want to introduce him to it. Riga and Tallinn were in the past such places, and now Faro, on Portugal’s Algarve coast, has joined them.

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    Colourful lorry

    Gallery: kings of the road in Nepal

    December 3, 2022

    Gallery: on the trail of Knaresborough’s Town Windows

    August 20, 2022
    Large mural of orangutan with a baby

    Gallery: the colourful street art of Brighton

    October 17, 2021
  • Photographing Public Art,  Street art,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: just passing by (street art)

    March 18, 2022 / 27 Comments
    Man passing a bright wall painting on a dark building

    When I photograph street art I am conscious that for the most part the success of the image depends on the quality of the piece of art itself, and that any creativity involved is that of the original artist, not mine as a photographer. So I often try to create something new by involving a passer-by, or two.

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    Bronze sculpture of two young elephants

    A little bit of Nairobi in London’s Spitalfields

    January 22, 2022
    Large wooden curved structure

    Gallery: Seville’s mushrooms, art or architecture?

    December 4, 2021
    Group of sculpted figures among dune grass

    The Conversation Piece and the Eye

    June 11, 2022
  • Costa Rica,  Photographing Public Art,  Street art,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: spotting street art in Sant Elena

    February 26, 2022 / 48 Comments
    Wall painting of a blue hummingbird

    I didn’t go to Costa Rica to see street art; like most visitors, my main interests were in its landscapes and its wildlife. The country is famous for being one of the most biodiverse in the world. So maybe it’s not so surprising after all to see that biodiversity celebrated on the streets of Sant Elena, the main tourist hub in the Monteverde region.

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    Hairy animal holding a tree trunk

    The oddities of sloths

    March 6, 2022
    Rough wooden sign on the edge of a beach

    A short (hot) walk around Guiones

    March 31, 2022
    Abstract view of sparkling blue water

    Gallery: water, water everywhere …

    February 20, 2022
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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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