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Gallery: a September selection (2025)

October 1, 2025 / 32 Comments

Happily we bask in this warm September sun, which illuminates all creatures

Henry David Thoreau

We have had plenty of warm September sun this year, but also some chillier days, reminding us that winter isn’t too far away. By the end of the month it was looking, and feeling, quite autumnal. We were home for much of the month but did make our usual anniversary visit to Paris near the start.

Before that there was a visit to the Saatchi Gallery where we saw a surprisingly good photography exhibition, HIP HOP – Living a Dream. Surprising because I have no interest in hip hop as a musical genre, but I found the portraits on display, especially those of Gregory Bojorquez, very engaging.

After the Paris trip we still found plenty to do closer to home, as always. We met friends for dinner at a favourite Austrian restaurant before a fun evening of comedy in an Islington pub. We went to the cinema together just once, to see A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (a fun twist on a slightly predictable rom-com theme) and I also went on my own to see Downton Abbey: the Grand Finale. I met up with Virtual Tourist friends for dinner (the regular London crowd plus a couple visiting from Chicago). And we spent a lovely Saturday with my family celebrating my great niece’s first birthday. That year has gone quickly!

As well as a couple of interesting U3A talks (including a fascinating one about the internment of British troops in Norway in WW1), I also joined the table tennis group. I used to play (poorly but competitively) for a local club but haven’t done so for decades. Thankfully this group isn’t competitive and takes things at a much more gentle pace!

Photography and blogging

I showed some photos from our Svalbard expedition cruise at my photography group. And I was thrilled to have a shot included in the London Independent Photographers magazine, FLiP. I was also happy that GPSmyCity added another twenty nine of my blog posts to their app for download! You can read all about this partnership here: https://www.toonsarah-travels.blog/a-new-way-to-interact-with-my-posts/.

Chris and I were also involved in a big event for the Plan Zheroes charity, Feeding the 500, which brought corporate teams together for a team building activity learning to cook some Asian dishes. The food was then distributed to local charities to provide meals for 500+ people in need. I was chief photographer for the day, among other duties!

Technical notes

The Paris and Borough Market shots were taken on my Panasonic Lumix point and shoot camera. The rest were taken on my phone. Most have been at least a little edited with Photoshop Elements and some more heavily edited with Nik Color Efex.

As always I am linking my selection to Ju-Lyn’s and Brian’s Changing Seasons challenge. Use the arrows to navigate the slideshow if you want to see all the images.

My feature photo was taken in a park in Bercy, a suburb of Paris



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