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      • Iceland
      • Italy
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      • 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
    • Themed galleries
    • Travel galleries
  • 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
      • One-to-Three
      • Ten photos
      • Thursday Trios
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  • Culture & tradition,  Monday walks,  Senegal

    Living on borrowed time in Djiffer

    January 11, 2023 / 30 Comments
    Men with fishing nets on colourfully painted wooden rowing boats

    At the southern tip of a spit of land on the coast of Senegal, which separates the sea from the waters of the Saloum, lies the small village of Djiffer. Its narrow strip of houses is thus squeezed between the waters of the Atlantic to the west and the lagoons of the Sine Saloum delta to the east. The Atlantic Ocean to the west is continually nibbling at its sandy shores in an effort to meet up with the waters of the Saloum. People living here are doing so on…

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    Little boy and two little girls in Japanese costume

    Celebrating childhood at the shrines of Japan

    April 25, 2021
    Two images of narrow city streets

    A walk in Seville’s picturesque Triana district

    December 2, 2021
    A man with a young girl on his shoulders

    Lunch with Mr Noon and his family

    January 13, 2023
  • Animals,  Botswana,  Kenya,  Lens-Artists,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: making eyes at me

    June 27, 2022 / 51 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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    Face of a sloth among large leaves

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

    February 17, 2023
    Two elephants among trees

    Elephant encounters on elephant terms

    September 13, 2020
    Elephant calf drinking

    Meet the orphaned elephants being rescued in Nairobi

    May 15, 2021
  • Birds,  Sunday Stills,  Themed galleries,  Thursday Trios

    Gallery: feathered friends in threes

    May 27, 2022 / 24 Comments
    Black and white photo of three gulls on a groyne

    A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

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    Blue lake with flamingos feeding

    Around the world in ten photos: day two

    December 18, 2020
    Speckled bird on a beach

    Gallery: some long-legged birds

    April 21, 2023
    Fierce-looking owl

    Gallery: owl portraits, striped and speckled

    June 12, 2021
  • CBWC,  Nature and wildlife,  Photographic techniques,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: seeing animals in black and white

    December 23, 2021 / 44 Comments
    Black and white photo of two zebras

    You can’t get much more black and white than a zebra! But actually many animals look good in monochrome. I’ve had a go at editing some of my favourite wildlife shots – mammals, reptiles and birds – with my favourite software. Let me know which versions you prefer, colour or black and white?

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    Black and white photo of man with rickshaw

    Gallery: people at work in Kerala and Rajasthan

    August 5, 2021
    Black and white silhouetted figures in front of an ornate domed building

    Gallery: capturing photographers in black and white

    March 30, 2022
    Two baby baboons playing

    Gallery: two of a kind

    December 3, 2021
  • Culture & tradition,  Morocco,  Sunday Stills

    Day into night in the Jemaa el-Fnaa

    December 20, 2021 / 25 Comments
    View from above of large square with market stalls

    Sooner or later it seems, all paths in Marrakesh lead to the Jemaa el-Fnaa. The name (sometimes spelled Djemaa el Fna or Jamaa el Fna) means ‘Assembly of the Dead’ in Arabic; but a visit here suggests life in all its vibrancy. To call this the city’s main square doesn’t begin to do justice to it. This is a meeting place, a shopping centre, a performance space, a happening. It is surrounded by restaurants and cafés, each with a roof terrace to offer a ringside seat from where to observe…

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    Cobbled street of colourful houses

    Gallery: Guatapé, town of the zócalos

    April 11, 2023
    White houses, blur minaret and dome, distant mountains

    A walk along the Corniche in Muttrah

    June 9, 2022
    Blue sign welcoming to village

    Island life in the Mekong

    September 26, 2022
  • Botswana,  Landscape,  Lens-Artists,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: taking a wider view in Botswana

    September 12, 2021 / 30 Comments
    Two lions on a sandy river bank

    Looking for the ‘ah-ha’ seems to me to be an excellent mantra for any photographer. Although in truth I sometimes search for that not by stepping back but by zooming in. For me the important thing is not to settle for the obvious, for the first angle that occurs to me.

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    Orange sunset with water reflections

    The sun sets and the sun rises over the Chobe River

    June 21, 2021
    Dead tree and long grass

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

    May 25, 2021
    Close up of a giraffe's eye

    Gallery: making eyes at me

    June 27, 2022
  • Architecture,  Morocco,  Sunday Stills,  Travel galleries

    Finding geometry in the buildings of Marrakesh

    July 27, 2021 / 27 Comments
    Detail of ornate tiled frieze

    Some of the most beautiful architecture I have seen has been in the Islamic world. Islamic art shuns the depiction of living figures, whether human or animal, partly to avoid any suggestion of idolatry and partly because it is believed that the creation of living forms is Allah’s prerogative. Instead the emphasis is on geometric forms as well as calligraphy and abstract floral motifs.

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    Blue and green wooden doors

    Gallery: the doors of Nepal

    January 23, 2023
    Modern white building with moat

    Gallery: cool architecture, cool colours

    May 24, 2021
    Man having his shoes shined

    Exploring the sights of downtown Medellín

    April 4, 2023
  • Africa,  England,  Landscape,  Squares,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: lone trees in the landscape

    July 22, 2021 / 34 Comments
    Tree with dramatic sky

    'Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.' (Kahil Gebran) And if every tree is a poem, a tree that stands alone is perhaps a performance poem - a poem that is shouted to the heavens?

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    Busy African market

    Gallery: a morning at Serekunda Market

    January 27, 2021
    Yellow and green birds on a branch, black and white background

    Gallery: playing with a selective colour technique

    June 1, 2021
    Two bright green birds in a dead tree

    Bird weekly #52: birds with long tail feathers

    June 18, 2021
  • Friendly Friday,  People,  Senegal

    Friendly Friday: meet Cheikh, a guide in Senegal

    July 16, 2021 / 34 Comments
    Banner heading with photo of African man

    Welcome to a new departure for the Friendly Friday Challenge. Every six weeks when it's my turn to host, I will be introducing you to a person or people I have met on my travels. People whom I have been inspired by, fascinated by or perhaps intrigued by. And I will be inviting you to do the same. As much as the sights we see, it is the people we meet who make travel so rewarding and so memorable. Whether close to home or on the other side of the…

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    Four women in kimonos passing a shop

    Gallery: these feet were made for walking …

    May 1, 2021
    Blue glacier edge

    Travel dreams

    October 16, 2020
    Two elephants in long grass in black and white

    Two ways: black and white or colour?

    November 6, 2020
  • Animals,  Friendly Friday,  Tanzania

    Elephant encounter: flashback to our first safari

    June 26, 2021 / 31 Comments
    Large elephant walking towards camera

    The bull elephant seemed to glower at us from just a short distance away. Reginald eased the jeep door open a few inches, not for the first time. The elephant stomped his feet and advanced a little, and Reginald hurriedly shut the door again. Clearly the elephant was not going to let him out of the vehicle without charging. Sitting in the back seat Chris and I looked at each other nervously. Would the first day of our first ever safari end in disaster?

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    River and wooded shore with reflections

    Gallery: on the Narayani River

    November 16, 2022
    Rhino eating

    A postcard from Nepal: rhinoceros

    October 30, 2022
    Rhino in long grass

    We’re going on a rhino hunt!

    December 8, 2022
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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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