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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
        • 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
      • 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 Doors
      • Thursday Trios
  • About me
    • Contact me
    • ‘Always Write’ interview
    • My love of travel
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  • Colour,  One Word Sunday,  Photographic techniques,  Sunday Stills,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: blackness against the light

    January 30, 2023 / 18 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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    Coloured glass bottles in a collage

    Gallery: through a glass darkly

    October 25, 2022
    Rock stack in the mist

    Gallery: how many shades of grey?

    January 16, 2023
    Lots of metal lanterns hanging

    Gallery: all that glitters is not gold (or silver)

    December 15, 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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    Group of ladies in pink saris

    Gallery: La Vie en Rose in Rajasthan

    June 14, 2021
    Dark red hollyhock with raindrops

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

    November 23, 2021
    Wooden hut painted in candy stripes

    Gallery: colourful beach huts in Whitstable and Broadstairs

    November 20, 2020
  • 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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    Two men in Arab robes on a sand dune

    Gallery: blackness against the light

    January 30, 2023
    Line of seated stone statues wearing red caps and bibs

    The Bake-Jizō of Kanmangafuchi Abyss

    February 16, 2021
    Coloured glass bottles in a collage

    Gallery: through a glass darkly

    October 25, 2022
  • 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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    Bright red berries

    Gallery: the colours of the season

    December 16, 2021
    Detail of traditional Chinese roof with small ornamental figures

    Gallery: never jaded by jade

    March 14, 2022
    Coloured glass bottles in a collage

    Gallery: through a glass darkly

    October 25, 2022
  • Colour,  Sunday Stills,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: through a glass darkly

    October 25, 2022 / 37 Comments
    Coloured glass bottles in a collage

    Arguably it’s the fragility of glass that makes it so beautiful. Not only does it look lovely, we know how easily we could lose it. Glass has two main properties; we can look through it, or we can see the world reflected in it.

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    Colourful mural advertising Red Stripe beer

    Gallery: a pop of colour to brighten the darkness

    January 20, 2023
    Line of seated stone statues wearing red caps and bibs

    The Bake-Jizō of Kanmangafuchi Abyss

    February 16, 2021
    Round blue ceramic roof tile with a dragon image

    Gallery: feeling the blues, again

    December 16, 2022
  • Colour,  Sunday Stills,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: tenderly love the apricots

    September 15, 2022 / 28 Comments
    Dried fruit and nuts displayed with price tags

    It is a long while since I did a colour challenge, but I love the excuse they give me to rummage through my archives. So I’ve pulled together a selection for Terri’s Sunday Stills challenge this week. Her chosen colour is apricot, which I found a little hard to pin down. Is it orange? Is it pink? Is it maybe peach?

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    Two elephants in long grass in black and white

    Two ways: black and white or colour?

    November 6, 2020
    Bright red berries

    Gallery: the colours of the season

    December 16, 2021
    Colourful paper lanterns at night

    Gallery: let there be light

    September 21, 2021
  • Colour,  Lens-Artists,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: expressions of a single colour

    April 17, 2022 / 38 Comments
    Turquoise sea with light and shaded areas

    Photography is of course all about colour. Even black and white photos are rarely just that but are all tones of grey. And good colour photography relies on the judicious combination of different shades, whether complementary or clashing or somewhere in between.

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    Two men in Arab robes on a sand dune

    Gallery: blackness against the light

    January 30, 2023
    Dried fruit and nuts displayed with price tags

    Gallery: tenderly love the apricots

    September 15, 2022
    Colourful paper lanterns at night

    Gallery: let there be light

    September 21, 2021
  • Colour,  Sunday Stills,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: never jaded by jade

    March 14, 2022 / 40 Comments
    Detail of traditional Chinese roof with small ornamental figures

    Jade is associated with calmness, balance, healing and protection. The stone is especially prized by the Chinese. For them it symbolises prosperity, success, and good luck. It is also a symbol of renewal, longevity, and even immortality. It is said to be a living stone, from the earth but with a luminous quality shared with sunlight and the stars. It is thus a connection between the realms of heaven and earth.

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    Line of seated stone statues wearing red caps and bibs

    The Bake-Jizō of Kanmangafuchi Abyss

    February 16, 2021
    Pink flowers half-silhouetted against a pink sky

    Gallery: looking on the pink side

    October 18, 2021
    White marble carving of an elephant and various people

    Gallery: does white exist?

    January 17, 2022
  • Colour,  Sunday Stills,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: does white exist?

    January 17, 2022 / 16 Comments
    White marble carving of an elephant and various people

    Peer at a white flower and you’ll observe nuances of different shades. The same in a white sky, even a field of snow. Light and shade play tricks with the eyes and white turns to grey, to blue, to cream. Perhaps that’s why, when I started to search my archives for ‘white’ images to share for this week’s Sunday Stills challenge, I found the purest whites in manmade objects.

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    Colourful paper lanterns at night

    Gallery: let there be light

    September 21, 2021
    Blue and white twirl effect image

    Gallery: twirling away with a new photo effect!

    May 14, 2021
    Yellow sunset with mountains and trees

    Gallery: yellow big and yellow small

    June 6, 2021
  • CFFC,  Colour,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: the colours of the season

    December 16, 2021 / 38 Comments
    Bright red berries

    Red and green should never be seen without a colour in between. Whoever coined that old phrase clearly didn’t have Christmas in mind. Surely there are no two more seasonal colours than red and green?

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    Forest in the mist

    Barking up the right tree in Costa Rica

    March 4, 2022
    Man in a ticket office booth

    Gallery: on New York City’s streets

    December 28, 2020
    River and wooded shore with reflections

    Gallery: on the Narayani River

    November 16, 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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