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    • England
      • London
      • Newcastle-upon-Tyne
    • Europe
      • Albania
      • Austria
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      • 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
    • 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
      • Friday’s Foods of the World
      • Life in Colour
      • One-to-Three
      • Ten photos
      • Thursday Trios
      • Thursday Doors
  • About me
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  • Architecture,  Lens-Artists,  London,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: London from the top of the Shard

    May 28, 2023 / 51 Comments
    View of a city with winding river and skyscrapers

    When the Shard opened in London in 2012 it did so to quite a fanfare, and to a rather damp squib (in my view) of a laser show. But despite the laser show disappointing, the tower never has. Although not to everyone’s taste (the fractured ‘shards’ at the top that give it its name divide opinion), I have always found it striking.

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    Looking up at a spiral staircase

    Gallery: monochrome curves

    March 20, 2022
    Black and white photo of a modern building and silhouetted bridges

    Gallery: seeing the Sage in black and white

    December 28, 2022
    Large cobbled square surrounded by low whitewashed buildings

    A stroll around Villa de Leyva

    February 27, 2023
  • Architecture,  Estonia,  Monochrome Madness

    Tallinn’s TV tower in black and white

    April 13, 2023 / 24 Comments
    Looking down at a spiral staircase

    On 20th August 1991 the Estonian government declared the country’s independence from the Soviet Union. In retaliation the following day Soviet troops wanting to seize control of the country’s communication channels stormed the TV Tower on the outskirts of Tallinn. Four employees working there locked themselves in rooms on the 22nd floor and kept the troops at bay by inserting a matchbox between the door of the lift and its frame to stop it working.

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    Colourful paper lanterns at night

    Gallery: let there be light

    September 21, 2021
    Statue of two soldiers shaking hands

    Gallery: favourite miscellaneous photos of 2021

    January 7, 2022
    Row of old shops and cafes

    A stroll around Las Vegas

    October 19, 2021
  • Colombia,  Colour,  Culture & tradition,  Photographing Public Art,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: Guatapé, town of the zócalos

    April 11, 2023 / 29 Comments
    Cobbled street of colourful houses

    Just as humans (sadly) use knives and swords for attack and defence, so too do animals and plants. Whether it’s a thorn or spike to ward off predators, or a sharp tooth to attack their prey, there is always a point to sharpness in nature.

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    Monkey looking down from a branch

    Gallery: pick a word (March 2023)

    March 18, 2023
    Black and white photo of a hibiscus flower

    Gallery: seeing Colombia in black and white

    March 16, 2023
    Pale blue birds with darker blue wings

    Gallery: feeding the birds of Colombia

    March 1, 2023
  • Colombia,  Colour,  Postcards from the road,  Street art

    A postcard from Colombia: a street corner in Guatapé

    February 15, 2023 / 37 Comments
    Colourfully painted houses on a cobbled street

    Many of the houses in Guatapé are decorated with friezes along the lower portion, known as zócalos.

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    Sculpture of a large bald head from the rear, with a bald man standing next to it

    The unique vision of Fernando Botero

    March 10, 2023
    Large pink flower

    Gallery: in the pink in Colombia

    March 8, 2023
    Balconies with Comuna 13 in large colourful letters

    Finding peace in Medellín

    March 6, 2023
  • Colombia,  History,  Postcards from the road

    A postcard from Colombia: Villa de Leyva

    February 8, 2023 / 30 Comments
    Large cobbled square surrounded by low white buildings

    Villa de Leyva was founded in 1572 by the Spaniards, and is considered one of the most beautiful colonial villages in Colombia.

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    Water with a small boat moored and surrounding palm trees

    Beach walks on the Caribbean coast of Colombia

    May 16, 2023
    Single storey houses in bright colours

    A wander through Getsemani

    March 21, 2023
    Dense jungle with birds circling above

    A walk in Tayrona National Park

    April 18, 2023
  • Architecture,  Nepal,  One Word Sunday,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: the doors of Nepal

    January 23, 2023 / 66 Comments
    Blue and green wooden doors

    Whether ancient and beautiful, old and battered, or newer and colourful, there was something about the doors in Nepal that charmed me. And yes, some could have come straight out of a fairy tale perhaps.

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    Terraced fields, shadowy buildings and mountains tinged with pink

    In Bandipur, an ancient hilltop town

    December 20, 2022
    Yellow Victorian house

    Gallery: the Painted Ladies of Cape May

    October 10, 2020
    Church tower and old stone built gatehouse

    A city walk in Newcastle-upon-Tyne

    May 31, 2022
  • Architecture,  History,  Lens-Artists,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: looking back at buildings

    January 15, 2023 / 61 Comments
    Jumble of flat roofed buildings with distant castle and glimpse of sea

    One of the (many) things I like to photograph when I travel are the various buildings I see. Buildings tell us so much about how people live, how they work, how they worship. Or, if they are old buildings, how they once lived/worked/worshipped.

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    Blue tiles with religious painting

    Gallery: tiles, tiles and yet more tiles!

    April 30, 2022
    Street of traditional Japanese houses

    Gallery: the merchant houses of Takayama

    September 23, 2020
    Part of a cathedral with blue skies

    Catedral de Santa María de la Sede: Seville’s cathedral

    January 15, 2022
  • Architecture,  Mid-week Monochrome,  Monochrome Madness,  Newcastle-upon-Tyne,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: seeing the Sage in black and white

    December 28, 2022 / 33 Comments
    Black and white photo of a modern building and silhouetted bridges

    If you take a walk along the Quayside in Newcastle you are unlikely to miss the striking building on the far side of the Tyne, in Gateshead. Situated in the shadow of the Tyne Bridge this is a concert venue with two main auditoria, a rehearsal space, a music education centre and a leisure destination with several bars and eating places. It is also a must-see, and must photograph, building!

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    View over group of brick temples with tiered tiled roofs

    A walk in Patan, the City of Beauty

    February 1, 2023
    Ornate marble pillars holding up carved ceilings

    Chaumukha Mandir, the four-faced temple of Ranakpur

    March 1, 2021
    Three large highly decorated buildings around a central square

    Gallery: building in threes

    May 13, 2022
  • Architecture,  Monday walks,  Nepal,  Squares,  Street photography

    In ancient Bhaktapur, a royal capital

    November 24, 2022 / 56 Comments
    Large square with historic buildings and tourists

    Bhaktapur lies a little to the east of Kathmandu. At its heart is a series of lanes and squares that seem little changed for centuries. Here more than anywhere in the country I felt immersed in the ageless atmosphere of Nepal.

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    Modern white building with moat

    Gallery: cool architecture, cool colours

    May 24, 2021
    Three photos in a black frame showing an oriental palace and some details

    Buildings three ways (three of a kind)

    May 29, 2022
    Street of traditional Japanese houses

    Gallery: the merchant houses of Takayama

    September 23, 2020
  • Colour,  Sunday Stills,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: tenderly love the apricots

    September 15, 2022 / 28 Comments
    Dried fruit and nuts displayed with price tags

    It is a long while since I did a colour challenge, but I love the excuse they give me to rummage through my archives. So I’ve pulled together a selection for Terri’s Sunday Stills challenge this week. Her chosen colour is apricot, which I found a little hard to pin down. Is it orange? Is it pink? Is it maybe peach?

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    Colourfully painted houses on a cobbled street

    A postcard from Colombia: a street corner in Guatapé

    February 15, 2023
    Large pink flower

    Gallery: in the pink in Colombia

    March 8, 2023
    Yellow sunset with mountains and trees

    Gallery: yellow big and yellow small

    June 6, 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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