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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
        • Madagascar
        • 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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  • Lens-Artists,  Madagascar,  Photographic techniques,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: seeking asymmetry in Madagascar

    November 9, 2023 / 55 Comments
    Boat with a triangular sail

    While I sometimes enjoy the harmony of a perfectly symmetrical shot, on the whole I find the asymmetrical more interesting. An image that is off-centre is more dynamic and encourages the eye to explore rather than settling in one spot.

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    Ruined columns and distant mountain hidden in cloud

    Fragments of the past in Pompeii and Herculaneum

    June 11, 2023
    Panoramic cityscape

    The best views of Paris?

    September 12, 2022
    Yellow dahlia with raindrops on the petals

    Gallery: favourite nature and landscape photos of 2021

    January 1, 2022
  • Animals,  Madagascar,  Postcards from the road

    A postcard from Madagascar: black and white ruffed lemur

    November 4, 2023 / 51 Comments

    I photographed this black and white ruffed lemur on Lemur Island, a private reserve in the grounds of one of the Andisibe lodges.

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    Rhino in long grass

    We’re going on a rhino hunt!

    December 8, 2022
    Dead tree and long grass

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

    May 25, 2021
    Red squirrel on a tree truck with piece of carrot

    Gallery: a world of British wildlife

    September 14, 2023
  • Animals,  Madagascar,  Postcards from the road

    A postcard from Madagascar: dwarf chameleons

    November 2, 2023 / 59 Comments

    These tiny creatures are Brookesia Minima chameleons. Our guide found them for us on a walk in the Montaigne d'Ambre national park, by rifling through leaf litter at the base of a tree.

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    Two elephants among trees

    Elephant encounters on elephant terms

    September 13, 2020
    Owl in a tree at night

    Night walks in Madagascar

    November 21, 2023
    Fluffy grey and golden lemur looking down

    In search of lemurs in Madagascar

    November 13, 2023
  • Animals,  Madagascar,  Postcards from the road

    A postcard from Madagascar: a tenrec

    October 28, 2023 / 45 Comments

    This is a tenrec, specifically I believe a lowland streaked tenrec. We saw him on a night walk in the Andasibe-Mantadia National Park area. Tenrecs are endemic to Madagascar and this particular species lives in the eastern part of the country.

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    Tabby cat peering from between wooden board and a drain

    Gallery: peeking at animals, peeking at me

    March 30, 2023
    Lioness followed by two cubs

    Gallery: when three is better than two

    January 21, 2022
    Black and white monkey in a tree with small orange fruits

    Gallery: wildlife in the Caño Negra refuge

    March 17, 2022
  • Architecture,  Chicago,  History,  Monday walks

    A stroll in Chicago’s Old Town

    October 23, 2023 / 50 Comments
    Small clapboard house

    Old Town is not, somewhat to my surprise, the old heart of Chicago, but rather one of its neighbourhoods. It takes its name from art fairs held in this area in the 1940s, ‘Old Town Holidays’. However, it is certainly home to many buildings older than most in the city. There are Victorian era houses and even one of just seven buildings to survive the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.

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    Orange tiled roof with small figures along the apex

    Gallery: on the edge of the roof

    October 3, 2023
    Black and white photo of adobe church

    Gallery: San Francisco de Asis, Ranchos de Taos

    January 8, 2021
    Two traditional houses and one modern

    A postcard from Chicago: Oak Park

    September 22, 2023
  • Lens-Artists,  Themed galleries,  Travel in general

    Gallery: signs of the times

    October 22, 2023 / 62 Comments
    Sign advertising drinks and breakfast

    Our world is full of signs, both those we erect ourselves to convey a message, and the more subtle ones we can read in landscapes and nature. The latter include the signs that speak of changing seasons, like autumn leaves or buds on trees. There are signs in the rocks telling of seismic changes in the earth’s crust, or more subtly speaking of people that came before us.

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    Lady in conical hat on a small boat

    Gallery: street photography in Hoi An, two ways

    June 27, 2021
    Old postcard of bombed town

    Postcards from a time of war

    August 2, 2021
    Rock arch with rock stack

    Gallery: earth’s story told in its rocks

    March 27, 2022
  • Nature Photo Challenge,  Themed galleries,  Trees, forests and woodland

    Gallery: autumn scenes around the world

    October 20, 2023 / 75 Comments
    Orange leaves against a green backdrop

    In his poem 'To Autumn' John Keats describes the autumn we all know and love, with lingering warm weather and bountiful harvests. But he also celebrates later autumn days, when winter seems just over the horizon. Both have their beauty.

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    Hippo part-submerged in water

    Gallery: speaking a great language

    March 4, 2023
    Squat spiky cacti with single small pink flower

    Gallery: the ‘point’ of sharpness in nature

    March 31, 2023
    Bright yellow daisies

    Gallery: winter is dead

    May 5, 2023
  • London,  Monochrome Madness,  Photographic techniques,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: seeing Ealing in black and white

    October 18, 2023 / 31 Comments
    Large Gothic style building with towers and a flag pole

    It was the advent of the Great Western Railway in the mid nineteenth century that led to the scattered villages of Ealing, Gunnersbury and Pitshanger merging into unbroken residential areas, centred around the new station in what is now Ealing Broadway.

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    Robin in a bird bath

    Gallery: a June selection

    July 3, 2022
    Sign on boarded-up window

    Gallery: London, off the beaten track (urban erosion)

    January 17, 2021
    Mural of girl's face with birds for hair

    Gallery: a street art walk in Shoreditch

    November 6, 2021
  • Architecture,  Chicago,  Sunday Stills,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: the skyscrapers of Chicago

    October 16, 2023 / 39 Comments
    Cluster of skyscrapers both old and new

    The mass production of inexpensive steel in the mid 19th century made it possible for urban planners to bring to life the idea of skyscrapers. And it all started in Chicago. The method had been tested in Liverpool, England, on the five storey Oriel Chambers building. But it was in Chicago that the capacity of steel to support taller buildings was first exploited.

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    Ornate door and building

    Gallery: the doors of Tallinn

    October 24, 2020
    Black and white photo of white building

    Gallery: seeking geometry in architecture

    March 28, 2021
    Black and white photo of adobe church

    Gallery: San Francisco de Asis, Ranchos de Taos

    January 8, 2021
  • Lens-Artists,  Photographic techniques,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: the tension of opposites

    October 15, 2023 / 57 Comments
    Looking up at leaves against the sky

    Contrast must be one of the most used words in photography. Usually we are talking about the lighting conditions for an image; the contrast between the light and dark areas. Sometimes it can be hard to balance these, if the contrast is great.

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    Orthodox cathedral at the end of a wide street

    Gallery: Sofia’s St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral

    March 7, 2021
    Old sign advertising a clog shop entrance

    Gallery: shoes, slippers, trainers, boots and clogs

    August 15, 2021
    Factory gates with propaganda signs and various buildings

    Some short stories from the Hermit Kingdom

    November 28, 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

Some topics I’ve touched on

africa animals architecture art birds black_&_white bulgaria cambodia chile cities colombia colour costa_rica dprk ealing england flowers france friendlyfriday Friendly_Friday history india landscape lens-artists Lens_Artists_Challenge london Monday_Walks naturephotochallenge nepal new_mexico north_korea paris people photography photo_effects PPAC ruins Street_Art Street_Photography Sunday_Stills thechangingseasons usa views village wildlife

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