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    • England
      • London
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    • Europe
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        • Paris
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      • 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
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        • Flowers
        • Trees, forests and woodland
    • People
      • Culture & tradition
      • Street photography
    • Travel in general
  • Photo galleries
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      • Monochrome Madness
      • Nature Photo Challenge
      • One Word Sunday
      • Photographing Public Art
      • Pick a Word
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      • The Changing Seasons
      • Words of Wisdom
      • Cee’s challenges
        • CBWC
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        • CMMC
    • General challenges
      • Monday walks
      • Writers’ Quotes Wednesday
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  • Colombia,  Landscape,  Monday walks,  Sunday Stills,  Trees, forests and woodland

    A (steep) walk in the Valle Cocora

    March 13, 2023 / 41 Comments
    Steep-sided valley with tall palm trees and other vegetation

    Cocora was a princess, daughter of Acaime, chief of the local Quimbaya indigenous people. Today she lends her name to Colombia’s Cocora Valley, where the native wax palms (the national tree) grow up to 60 metres and live for about 200 years.

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    Colourful mural street art depicting two women

    Gallery: the street art of Candelaria, Bogota

    February 24, 2023
    Colourfully painted houses on a cobbled street

    A postcard from Colombia: a street corner in Guatapé

    February 15, 2023
    Large pink flower

    Gallery: in the pink in Colombia

    March 8, 2023
  • Landscape,  Sunday Stills,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: the sound of silence

    January 25, 2023 / 63 Comments
    Moon shine reflected in the sea and framed by shadowy trees

    How do you photograph silence? Photographing a sound seems challenging enough, being invisible; but the absence of sound even more so.

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    Black lava beach, crashing waves and offshore rock formations

    Gallery: photographing the four elements

    January 31, 2022
    Large waterfall glimpsed through spray

    Mosi-oa-Tunya, the Smoke that Thunders

    December 8, 2021
    Wetlands in low sun

    Gallery: mokoro rides in the Okavango Delta

    February 3, 2021
  • Coast & seascapes,  People,  Sunday Stills,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: taking the plunge

    January 10, 2023 / 25 Comments
    Man surfing in rocky sea at sunset

    There are plenty of quotes that encourage us to take the plunge. We all understand the concept. Be brave, don’t hesitate, don’t hold back. We can apply this to our working lives (go for that promotion!), and our personal lives (don’t wait, travel, book that flight, train for that marathon!)

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    Large tree trunks on a beach and foggy offshore islets

    Around the world in ten photos: day one

    December 17, 2020
    Rocky beach and palm trees

    On the Pacific coast in Drake Bay

    February 28, 2022
    Abstract view of sparkling blue water

    Gallery: water, water everywhere …

    February 20, 2022
  • Coast & seascapes,  England,  Monday walks,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: blowing the cobwebs away at Druridge Bay

    January 4, 2023 / 29 Comments
    Wintery beach scene

    Just a few miles north of built-up post-industrial Tyneside lies the wide expanse of Druridge Bay. Its seven miles of sands are lined with sand dunes and are just perfect for a winter walk. The landscape is an interesting mix, with wind turbines visible in the distance but otherwise feeling rather remote.

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    Pink sunrise over water

    The tragic tale of a Senegalese mouse

    May 28, 2021
    Rocky beach and palm trees

    On the Pacific coast in Drake Bay

    February 28, 2022
    Old boat and rail track on a shingle beach

    Gallery: at the edge of England

    November 11, 2020
  • Mountains,  Nepal,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: Himalaya vistas near Pokhara

    December 26, 2022 / 23 Comments
    View of mountains from wooded hillside

    High in the hills above Pokhara the inhabitants of small villages live much as they have always done. Theirs is a life of hard work, farming a land of steep fields and terraces. But while the work is hard, the backdrop is stunning. I wonder how often they pause to appreciate their surroundings, raising a weary head to gaze in wonder at these mountains as I did?

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    Road through mountains with snow and pine trees

    Gallery: on the road to the future?

    January 10, 2022
    Mountain peak with small plane

    Gallery: sunrise over the Himalayas

    December 22, 2022
    Dramatic mountain landscape

    Gallery: Mountain, Desert, Jungle or Ocean?

    June 28, 2021
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    Gallery: sunrise over the Himalayas

    December 22, 2022 / 60 Comments
    Mountain peak with small plane

    We’d planned to spend our last day in Pokhara taking it easy. Swimming in the beautiful hotel pool, a walk by the lake, maybe a bit of shopping. But some things can’t be missed, and surely sunrise over the Himalayas is one of those things?!

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    Pine tree branch with out of focus mountains behind

    A day in the mountains: driving the North Cascades

    July 19, 2021

    A postcard from Nepal: Annapurna

    November 4, 2022
    Dramatic mountain landscape

    Gallery: Mountain, Desert, Jungle or Ocean?

    June 28, 2021
  • Culture & tradition,  Monday walks,  Mountains,  Nepal

    Exploring the temple town of Manakamana

    December 6, 2022 / 27 Comments
    Distant mountains with colourful fabric in foreground

    I can never resist the opportunity to ride in a cable car. So when our tour company suggested that we break the long drive from Chitwan to Bandipur with a ride up to the temple at Manakamana, I agreed immediately. It would be a chance to see a different side of Nepal, I thought. And it was, but not quite in the way I had imagined.

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    Print with blue mountains

    Dust collectors? Or precious memories?

    January 23, 2021
    Girl in traditional blue clothing

    Traditional textiles in San Antonio Palopo

    April 21, 2021
    Large building with green oriental roof

    A look inside the Grand People’s Study House

    November 18, 2021
  • England,  Landscape,  Lens-Artists,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: an ode to beautiful Northumberland (shhh!)

    November 28, 2022 / 54 Comments
    Lobster pots, small boats and a distant castle on a hill

    Are there places you know and love which you hesitate to tell others about, because you are tempted to keep them to yourself? Places relatively unknown that you fear might become spoiled if discovered by too many? And yet, they are so lovely you can’t resist singing their praises!

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    Three large sculptures in a landscape

    Gallery: the Yorkshire Sculpture Park

    September 4, 2021
    Ruins of a castle

    Kippers and castles: a walk from Craster to Dunstanburgh

    April 13, 2021
    Tree with dramatic sky

    Gallery: lone trees in the landscape

    July 22, 2021
  • Animals,  CFFC,  Nepal,  Rivers,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: on the Narayani River

    November 16, 2022 / 39 Comments
    River and wooded shore with reflections

    In the early morning mist we drifted slowly with the current, our boat man using his single oar simply to steer us. Here on the Narayani River, which skirts the northern boundary of Chitwan National Park in Nepal, the setting was beautiful, the atmosphere tranquil.

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    Lioness followed by two cubs

    Gallery: when three is better than two

    January 21, 2022
    Elephant calf drinking

    Meet the orphaned elephants being rescued in Nairobi

    May 15, 2021
    Red and black igiana

    The ‘Christmas’ marine iguanas of Española Island

    December 6, 2020
  • Culture & tradition,  Mountains,  Nepal,  Postcards from the road

    A postcard from Nepal: souvenir seller

    November 10, 2022 / 24 Comments

    A statue of Shiva, the second largest in Nepal, was unveiled near Pokhara last year. A lady was selling souvenirs next to the steep path up to the statue.

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    Banner with photo of a tightrope walker

    Friendly Friday: meet a young tightrope walker in Jaisalmer

    August 27, 2021
    Two men in fancy dress

    Gallery: Comic and Games festival in Lucca

    November 8, 2020
    Little boy and two little girls in Japanese costume

    Celebrating childhood at the shrines of Japan

    April 25, 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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