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  • 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
          • Chicago
          • 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
      • Lens-Artists
      • Monochrome Madness
      • Nature Photo Challenge
      • One Word Sunday
      • Photographing Public Art
      • Pick a Word
      • Squares
      • Sunday Stills
      • The Changing Seasons
      • Cee’s challenges
        • CBWC
        • CFFC
        • CMMC
    • General challenges
      • Happy Place Happy Space
      • Monday walks
      • Words of Wisdom
      • Writers’ Quotes Wednesday
    • Challenges archive
      • Bird Weekly
      • Friendly Friday
        • The Friendly Friday Challenge: how to join in
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      • Life in Colour
      • Mid-week Monochrome
      • One-to-Three
      • Ten photos
      • Thursday Trios
      • Thursday Doors
  • About me
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  • Flowers,  London,  The Changing Seasons,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: a June selection (2023)

    June 30, 2023 / 57 Comments
    Several large heads of purple hydrangeas

    For me this past June has been one of more than usually changeable weather. I started the month inside the Arctic Circle where in the first few days of meteorological summer the temperature didn’t rise above six or seven degrees Celsius and was often colder than that. I then returned to a London going into its first heatwave of the summer, hitting thirty degrees on a couple of days. Towards the end of the month the temperature dropped to the more usual, and comfortable, low to mid-twenties.

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    White flowers with dark purple centre patches

    Gallery: a July selection

    August 2, 2022
    Large red poppy

    Gallery: is it wild if we plant it?

    July 2, 2021
    Pink blossom

    Gallery: April in Ealing

    April 11, 2021
  • Flowers,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: flowers for Bren

    June 16, 2023 / 48 Comments
    Soft focus rose and other flowers

    We are saying goodbye this week to a much-valued member of our blogging community, Bren, who sadly died quite recently. Her photography blog has long been a favourite of mine, and an inspiration in my own photographic experiments. Her creative, atmospheric monochrome shots and beautiful soft-focus flowers were always a pleasure to view.

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    Bright yellow daisies

    Gallery: winter is dead

    May 5, 2023
    Large red poppy

    Gallery: is it wild if we plant it?

    July 2, 2021
    Pale tulip against a dark background

    Gallery: a May selection (2023)

    May 30, 2023
  • Flowers,  London,  Newcastle-upon-Tyne,  The Changing Seasons,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: a May selection (2023)

    May 30, 2023 / 18 Comments
    Pale tulip against a dark background

    May is an especially lovely month in England. At the start of the month spring is at its height, while by the end there are hints of the summer to come. With spring being late this year, the early part of May felt more like April, with chilly winds and frequent showers. But the trees were green at last after the winter bareness, and there were flowers everywhere!

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    Purple flower on a long stem

    Gallery: roses are red, violets are blue …

    April 19, 2021
    Red, yellow and purple tulips

    Gallery: tulips from London, not Amsterdam

    April 6, 2023
    Pink and white flowers against a deep blue sky

    Gallery: the magnificent magnolias of March

    March 23, 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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    Bald Eagle on a wooden jetty

    Gallery: Bald Eagles, American Robins and more

    May 12, 2021
    Green bird with red stripe on head

    Gallery: discovering birdlife in Bushy Park

    April 9, 2021
    Hazy view of bamboo clump

    Periyar’s monkeys, elephants, bison and more

    October 4, 2021
  • Albania,  England,  Flowers,  Rivers,  Street photography,  The Changing Seasons,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: an April selection (2023)

    May 2, 2023 / 41 Comments
    White blossom and deep blue sky

    As well as being a successful novelist and poet, Vita Sackville-West is known for the beautiful gardens she created at Sissinghurst in Kent. She will have welcomed April as all gardeners do … but maybe not the April we have had this year.

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    House in a garden with concrete path

    A postcard from Tirana: Enver Hoxha’s former residence

    April 22, 2023
    Books on a market stall

    A postcard from Tirana: the flea market

    April 24, 2023
    Two boys cycling past a utility box painted with a figure from South Park

    Gallery: boxing clever in Tirana

    May 14, 2023
  • Flowers,  London,  Nature Photo Challenge,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: tulips from London, not Amsterdam

    April 6, 2023 / 56 Comments
    Red, yellow and purple tulips

    While many people head to Holland to see the tulips, we have London’s Holland Park. There the Dutch Gardens are planted with formal beds edged with low hedges and overflowing with tulips every spring.

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    Two white bell towers

    A stroll around Tavira

    April 29, 2022
    Bee on a bright pink flower

    Gallery: a selection of summer bugs

    August 3, 2021
    Black and white photo of a single magnolia flower

    Gallery: spring sunshine, but in monochrome?

    March 21, 2022
  • Flowers,  London,  Street photography,  The Changing Seasons,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: a March selection (2023)

    April 1, 2023 / 31 Comments
    Purple flower among green leaves

    With a slow start to the spring this year it’s felt at times as if March was coming in more like a polar bear than a lion! We had sharp winds, frosts and even some snow as far south as London, although nothing like what they had further north. And even when the weather started to warm up, sunshine was in short supply.

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    Narrow path between flower beds

    Gallery: some favourite English flowers

    October 17, 2022
    Several large heads of purple hydrangeas

    Gallery: a June selection (2023)

    June 30, 2023
    Bee on a bright pink flower

    Gallery: a selection of summer bugs

    August 3, 2021
  • 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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    Door knocker in the shape of a lizard

    Gallery: the door knockers of Cartagena

    April 29, 2023
    Pale blue birds with darker blue wings

    Gallery: feeding the birds of Colombia

    March 1, 2023
    Single storey houses in bright colours

    A wander through Getsemani

    March 21, 2023
  • Colombia,  Flowers,  Lens-Artists,  Photographic techniques,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: soft orchids from Colombia

    February 22, 2023 / 66 Comments
    Soft focus image of a dramatic flower

    While a flower is transient, our images capture the memory of it forever. Maybe that’s why so many of us love to photograph them.

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    Large pink flower

    Gallery: in the pink in Colombia

    March 8, 2023
    Colourful mural street art depicting two women

    Gallery: the street art of Candelaria, Bogota

    February 24, 2023
    Single storey houses in bright colours

    A wander through Getsemani

    March 21, 2023
  • CMMC,  Flowers,  Nature and wildlife,  Nepal,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: looking closely at Nepal

    January 6, 2023 / 51 Comments
    Dark red flower

    I would never claim to be the only person to have noticed the things I photograph. But I do believe I often photograph things that not EVERYONE has noticed, or thought to photograph. When I travel I of course photograph the famous sights, the landscapes, the architecture. But I also like to capture small details that, while perhaps not unique to the country, are part of my personal memories of it.

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    White wall with a painting of the god Ganesh and a blue door

    Gallery: intriguingly incomparable India

    May 25, 2023
    Small bird hovering by purple flowers

    Gallery: searching for M and M

    July 29, 2023
    Blue and turquoise mosaic

    Gallery: feeling the blues

    November 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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