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  • Home
  • Destinations
    • England
      • London
      • Newcastle-upon-Tyne
    • Europe
      • Albania
      • 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
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  • Colour,  Sunday Stills,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: purple blowing my mind

    May 15, 2023 / 36 Comments
    Purple flowers against the sky

    Purple is the colour of wealth and royalty. Its rich tones call to mind the trappings of majesty and ceremony. Its blend of red and blue means that it lies carries messages both of tranquillity and of passion. Purple is also the colour of creativity, as it fosters creativity by stimulating our senses while also promoting the calmness needed for thoughtful observation and introspection. And it just happens to be my favourite colour too!

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    Blue and turquoise mosaic

    Gallery: feeling the blues

    November 11, 2021
    Sign mimicking an artist's palette

    Gallery: all the colours of the kaleidoscope

    December 10, 2021
    Detail of traditional Chinese roof with small ornamental figures

    Gallery: never jaded by jade

    March 14, 2022
  • Birds,  Colour,  Flowers,  Nature Photo Challenge,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: winter is dead

    May 5, 2023 / 49 Comments
    Bright yellow daisies

    All over the world the colour yellow is associated with the sun and its life-giving warmth. It’s the colour of optimism and the coming of spring sunshine. But it’s also an attention-getter. We humans use it for warnings, while the animal world does much the same.

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    Two birds with turquoise feet

    Blue feet, red feet, any coloured feet …

    May 18, 2021
    Blue lake with flamingos feeding

    Around the world in ten photos: day two

    December 18, 2020
    Speckled bird on a beach

    Gallery: some long-legged birds

    April 21, 2023
  • Colombia,  Colour,  Culture & tradition,  Photographing Public Art,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: Guatapé, town of the zócalos

    April 11, 2023 / 29 Comments
    Cobbled street of colourful houses

    Just as humans (sadly) use knives and swords for attack and defence, so too do animals and plants. Whether it’s a thorn or spike to ward off predators, or a sharp tooth to attack their prey, there is always a point to sharpness in nature.

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    Large cobbled square surrounded by low white buildings

    A postcard from Colombia: Villa de Leyva

    February 8, 2023
    Colourful mural street art depicting two women

    Gallery: the street art of Candelaria, Bogota

    February 24, 2023
    Monkey looking down from a branch

    Gallery: pick a word (March 2023)

    March 18, 2023
  • Colombia,  Colour,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: an explosion of colour in Colombia

    April 7, 2023 / 41 Comments
    Street of brightly painted houses

    You may be tired by now of me saying that Colombia is colourful, but hopefully not of seeing the evidence. Many of its small towns are as imbued with colour as the cities; indeed maybe more so as they don’t spill out into more drab commercial and industrial areas. Passing through even the smallest village I would spot murals on local bars, bright doors and windows on the houses.

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    Balconies with Comuna 13 in large colourful letters

    Finding peace in Medellín

    March 6, 2023
    Straw hat with pink hibiscus flower

    One of Colombia’s most famous crops

    March 28, 2023
    Dense jungle with birds circling above

    A walk in Tayrona National Park

    April 18, 2023
  • Colombia,  Colour,  Flowers,  Nature Photo Challenge,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: in the pink in Colombia

    March 8, 2023 / 42 Comments
    Large pink flower

    A number of you seemed to enjoy seeing my Colombian orchids. Now Denzil gives me an excuse to share some more flowers from that beautiful country.

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    Large cobbled square surrounded by low white buildings

    A postcard from Colombia: Villa de Leyva

    February 8, 2023
    Steep-sided valley with tall palm trees and other vegetation

    A (steep) walk in the Valle Cocora

    March 13, 2023
    Black and white photo of a hibiscus flower

    Gallery: seeing Colombia in black and white

    March 16, 2023
  • Colombia,  Colour,  Postcards from the road,  Street art

    A postcard from Colombia: a street corner in Guatapé

    February 15, 2023 / 37 Comments
    Colourfully painted houses on a cobbled street

    Many of the houses in Guatapé are decorated with friezes along the lower portion, known as zócalos.

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    Pale blue birds with darker blue wings

    Gallery: feeding the birds of Colombia

    March 1, 2023
    Balconies with Comuna 13 in large colourful letters

    Finding peace in Medellín

    March 6, 2023
    Large cobbled square surrounded by low whitewashed buildings

    A stroll around Villa de Leyva

    February 27, 2023
  • Colour,  One Word Sunday,  Photographic techniques,  Sunday Stills,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: blackness against the light

    January 30, 2023 / 75 Comments
    Two men in Arab robes on a sand dune

    Silhouettes are a great way to create drama in an image. By eliminating details they evoke mystery and can be enigmatic. They take to extreme the balances in contrast that we all work with in our photography.

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    Sign mimicking an artist's palette

    Gallery: all the colours of the kaleidoscope

    December 10, 2021
    Dried fruit and nuts displayed with price tags

    Gallery: tenderly love the apricots

    September 15, 2022
    Small purple blossoms

    Gallery: a bouquet of purple flowers

    August 11, 2021
  • Colour,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: a pop of colour to brighten the darkness

    January 20, 2023 / 45 Comments
    Colourful mural advertising Red Stripe beer

    'With colour one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft' (Henri Matisse). Bright colours have the power to lift the spirits just as sunshine does.

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    Round blue ceramic roof tile with a dragon image

    Gallery: feeling the blues, again

    December 16, 2022
    Pink flowers half-silhouetted against a pink sky

    Gallery: looking on the pink side

    October 18, 2021
    Bright red berries

    Gallery: the colours of the season

    December 16, 2021
  • Colour,  Sunday Stills,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: how many shades of grey?

    January 16, 2023 / 46 Comments
    Rock stack in the mist

    Grey probably gets a bad name as a colour. We think of it as rather dull. We associate it with gloomy weather, with an absence of light and brightness. But it has its admirers. Hopefully I can demonstrate that if you look closely you will find beauty in grey.

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    Yellow sunset with mountains and trees

    Gallery: yellow big and yellow small

    June 6, 2021
    Turquoise sea with light and shaded areas

    Gallery: expressions of a single colour

    April 17, 2022
    Sign mimicking an artist's palette

    Gallery: all the colours of the kaleidoscope

    December 10, 2021
  • Colour,  Sunday Stills,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: feeling the blues, again

    December 16, 2022 / 39 Comments
    Round blue ceramic roof tile with a dragon image

    Some time ago I shared some favourite ‘blue’ images, accompanied by a quote from a favourite Blue song. But the world has an inexhaustible supply of shades of blue. So I’ve trawled through the photos from recent trips, and some older ones, to see what blues I could find that haven’t been shared before.

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    Dark red hollyhock with raindrops

    Gallery: what’s in a name? Burgundy / Beaujolais / Ruby reds

    November 23, 2021
    Dried fruit and nuts displayed with price tags

    Gallery: tenderly love the apricots

    September 15, 2022
    Colourfully painted houses on a cobbled street

    A postcard from Colombia: a street corner in Guatapé

    February 15, 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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