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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
        • 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
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  • 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
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      • Life in Colour
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      • Ten photos
      • Thursday Trios
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  • Animals,  Colombia,  Postcards from the road

    A postcard from Colombia: a three-toed sloth in a city park

    February 17, 2023 / 48 Comments
    Face of a sloth among large leaves

    Last February we travelled to Costa Rica, hoping (among other things) to see sloths. And we did. But it never occurred to me to hope to see them in one of Colombia's biggest cities.

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    Red and black igiana

    The ‘Christmas’ marine iguanas of Española Island

    December 6, 2020
    Hairy animal holding a tree trunk

    The oddities of sloths

    March 6, 2022
    Rhino eating

    A postcard from Nepal: rhinoceros

    October 30, 2022
  • Animals,  Nepal,  Trees, forests and woodland

    We’re going on a rhino hunt!

    December 8, 2022 / 19 Comments
    Rhino in long grass

    Some years ago on my birthday we were in Ranthambore National Park, in Rajasthan, and I hoped to see a tiger; we found one! Now here we were in Nepal and I was hoping for a birthday rhino; we found five! But I am getting ahead of myself...

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    River and wooded shore with reflections

    Gallery: on the Narayani River

    November 16, 2022
    Two elephants in long grass

    Gallery: the animals went in two by two …           

    June 7, 2022
    Hazy view of bamboo clump

    Periyar’s monkeys, elephants, bison and more

    October 4, 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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    Large elephant walking towards camera

    Elephant encounter: flashback to our first safari

    June 26, 2021
    Black and white monkey in a tree with small orange fruits

    Gallery: wildlife in the Caño Negra refuge

    March 17, 2022
    Dead tree and long grass

    A walk on Sausage Island: it’s all about the elephants

    May 25, 2021
  • Animals,  Nepal,  Postcards from the road

    A postcard from Nepal: rhinoceros

    October 30, 2022 / 22 Comments
    Rhino eating

    On our safari drive in Chitwan National Park yesterday we were fortunate to see five rhinos.

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    Two elephants in long grass

    Gallery: the animals went in two by two …           

    June 7, 2022
    Three lion cubs

    Gallery: emerging into life

    April 12, 2021
    Large yellow reptile looking at camera

    Spotting wildlife in the Galápagos Islands

    January 23, 2022
  • Animals,  Botswana,  Kenya,  Lens-Artists,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: making eyes at me

    June 27, 2022 / 50 Comments
    Close up of a giraffe's eye

    Giraffes’ eyes are beautiful but they can look rather mournful. Maybe that’s a touch of anthropomorphism, attributing human emotions to an animal? And yet …

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    Three lion cubs

    Gallery: emerging into life

    April 12, 2021
    Landscape with trees and escarpments

    Tiger, Tiger, burning bright …

    November 8, 2021
    Dead tree and long grass

    A walk on Sausage Island: it’s all about the elephants

    May 25, 2021
  • Animals,  Sunday Stills,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: the animals went in two by two …           

    June 7, 2022 / 52 Comments
    Two elephants in long grass

    The animals went in two by two. And three, and four, and five, and more.

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    Giraffe eating

    Giraffe Manor: getting up close and personal

    January 11, 2021
    Hairy animal holding a tree trunk

    The oddities of sloths

    March 6, 2022
    Elephant calf drinking

    Meet the orphaned elephants being rescued in Nairobi

    May 15, 2021
  • Animals,  Birds,  Costa Rica,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: wildlife in the Caño Negra refuge

    March 17, 2022 / 36 Comments
    Black and white monkey in a tree with small orange fruits

    In the far north of Costa Rica, almost on the border with Nicaragua, is a magical place, or at least I found it so. The Caño Negro National Wildlife Refuge is home to an immense variety of wildlife, one of the most diverse areas in this famously naturally diverse country.

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    Large elephant walking towards camera

    Elephant encounter: flashback to our first safari

    June 26, 2021
    Face of a sloth among large leaves

    A postcard from Colombia: a three-toed sloth in a city park

    February 17, 2023
    Red and black igiana

    The ‘Christmas’ marine iguanas of Española Island

    December 6, 2020
  • Animals,  Birds,  Costa Rica,  Lens-Artists

    The oddities of sloths

    March 6, 2022 / 58 Comments
    Hairy animal holding a tree trunk

    Is there a mammal more intriguing, cute and downright odd than a sloth? They spend so much time hanging around in trees that they start to look like them. That makes them quite hard to spot, and even harder to photograph! To give ourselves the best chance of seeing them we booked a tour in the Arenal area called ‘Sloths and Toucans’ which promised a good look at these most iconic of Costa Rican species.

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    Rhino eating

    A postcard from Nepal: rhinoceros

    October 30, 2022
    River and wooded shore with reflections

    Gallery: on the Narayani River

    November 16, 2022
    Rhino in long grass

    We’re going on a rhino hunt!

    December 8, 2022
  • Animals,  Galapagos Islands,  Lens-Artists,  Sunday Stills

    Spotting wildlife in the Galápagos Islands

    January 23, 2022 / 59 Comments
    Large yellow reptile looking at camera

    For many years I wanted to visit the Galápagos: to walk on these remote islands where unique species thrive, where Darwin first developed the ideas that would change our understanding of nature, and where animals have never learned to fear humankind. In 2012 I realised my dream; and fortunately, it more than lived up to my expectations!

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    Close up of a giraffe's eye

    Gallery: making eyes at me

    June 27, 2022
    Lioness followed by two cubs

    Gallery: when three is better than two

    January 21, 2022
    Rhino in long grass

    We’re going on a rhino hunt!

    December 8, 2022
  • Animals,  Themed galleries,  Thursday Trios

    Gallery: when three is better than two

    January 21, 2022 / 49 Comments
    Lioness followed by two cubs

    It's said that two is company, three a crowd. But when taking wildlife photos I’m always happy to have a third animal join the shot! Designers have long recognised that an odd number of items is more effective at capturing your gaze. Odd numbers force your eyes to move around the group and that forced movement is the heart of visual interest.

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    Back of whale with mountainous coast behind

    Thar she blows – eventually!

    July 7, 2021
    Two elephants among trees

    Elephant encounters on elephant terms

    September 13, 2020
    Giraffe eating

    Giraffe Manor: getting up close and personal

    January 11, 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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