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  • Destinations
    • England
      • London
      • Newcastle-upon-Tyne
    • Europe
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      • 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
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  • About me
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  • 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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    Two birds with turquoise feet

    Blue feet, red feet, any coloured feet …

    May 18, 2021
    Large heron on top of a mangrove tree

    Gallery: the birds of the Gambia

    February 22, 2021
    Black and white monkey in a tree with small orange fruits

    Gallery: wildlife in the Caño Negra refuge

    March 17, 2022
  • Birds,  Nature Photo Challenge,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: some long-legged birds

    April 21, 2023 / 40 Comments
    Speckled bird on a beach

    A bird’s legs must touch the ground eventually, however much time they spend in the air. And that’s where I find it easier to photograph them. Plus, the longer the legs, the easier it tends to be to spot them too!

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    Hazy view of bamboo clump

    Periyar’s monkeys, elephants, bison and more

    October 4, 2021
    Blue lake with flamingos feeding

    Around the world in ten photos: day two

    December 18, 2020
    River shaded by tall trees

    Misadventure on the Rio Nosara

    March 9, 2022
  • Nature and wildlife,  Nature Photo Challenge,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: the ‘point’ of sharpness in nature

    March 31, 2023 / 39 Comments
    Squat spiky cacti with single small pink flower

    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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    Collage of three landscape photos

    Gallery: changing environments around the world

    April 16, 2023
    Savannah landscape under blue sky

    A walk on Palm Island: hippos, hogs and crocs

    May 4, 2021
    Mountain scene with caption

    My love of travel: some special moments

    March 14, 2021
  • Animals,  Birds,  Sunday Stills,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: peeking at animals, peeking at me

    March 30, 2023 / 51 Comments
    Tabby cat peering from between wooden board and a drain

    Looking back I see that I have already in the past, several times, shared photos of animals’ eyes. I hate to duplicate but but I believe I’ve managed to dig out some new, and some not-yet-shared, images for this collection.

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    Elephant calf drinking

    Meet the orphaned elephants being rescued in Nairobi

    May 15, 2021
    Rhino in long grass

    We’re going on a rhino hunt!

    December 8, 2022
    Hairy animal holding a tree trunk

    The oddities of sloths

    March 6, 2022
  • Nature and wildlife,  Nature Photo Challenge,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: speaking a great language

    March 4, 2023 / 59 Comments
    Hippo part-submerged in water

    It’s often said that the eyes are the windows into the soul, but many will claim that an animal doesn’t have a soul. However, soul or not, an animal’s eyes can certainly be very expressive.

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    Squat spiky cacti with single small pink flower

    Gallery: the ‘point’ of sharpness in nature

    March 31, 2023
    Whale's tale

    Will we see whales?

    February 24, 2022
    Mountain scene with caption

    My love of travel: some special moments

    March 14, 2021
  • Birds,  Colombia,  Sunday Stills,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: feeding the birds of Colombia

    March 1, 2023 / 34 Comments
    Pale blue birds with darker blue wings

    Colombia can claim to have one fifth of the world’s birds, an amazing 1,954 species. That said, we saw relatively few of them. This may be in part because we went to the wrong places at the wrong time of year. And in part because we’re not experts and neither did we do any specific bird-watching activities.

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    Two bright green birds in a dead tree

    Bird weekly #52: birds with long tail feathers

    June 18, 2021
    Bird with yellow breast on a bare branch

    Gallery: Great Tit three ways

    April 5, 2022
    Large heron on top of a mangrove tree

    Gallery: the birds of the Gambia

    February 22, 2021
  • Animals,  Nepal,  Trees, forests and woodland

    We’re going on a rhino hunt!

    December 8, 2022 / 19 Comments
    Rhino in long grass

    Some years ago on my birthday we were in Ranthambore National Park, in Rajasthan, and I hoped to see a tiger; we found one! Now here we were in Nepal and I was hoping for a birthday rhino; we found five! But I am getting ahead of myself...

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    Large yellow reptile looking at camera

    Spotting wildlife in the Galápagos Islands

    January 23, 2022
    Rhino eating

    A postcard from Nepal: rhinoceros

    October 30, 2022
    Back of whale with mountainous coast behind

    Thar she blows – eventually!

    July 7, 2021
  • Animals,  Sunday Stills,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: the animals went in two by two …           

    June 7, 2022 / 52 Comments
    Two elephants in long grass

    The animals went in two by two. And three, and four, and five, and more.

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    Black and white monkey in a tree with small orange fruits

    Gallery: wildlife in the Caño Negra refuge

    March 17, 2022
    Dead tree and long grass

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

    May 25, 2021
    Hazy view of bamboo clump

    Periyar’s monkeys, elephants, bison and more

    October 4, 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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    Black and white monkey in a tree with small orange fruits

    Gallery: wildlife in the Caño Negra refuge

    March 17, 2022
    Hairy animal holding a tree trunk

    The oddities of sloths

    March 6, 2022
    Blue lake with flamingos feeding

    Around the world in ten photos: day two

    December 18, 2020
  • Birds,  One-to-Three,  Photographic techniques,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: Great Tit three ways

    April 5, 2022 / 45 Comments
    Bird with yellow breast on a bare branch

    There are purists who say that only the shot as it came out of the camera is ‘true’. Others allow for a bit of mild cropping and straightening, nothing more. But some of us like to go further in the post-production editing process. So I thought it was time I joined the One-to-Three Photo Processing Challenge.

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    Landscape with flamingos, water, salt flats and mountains

    Gallery: the flamingos of the Salar de Atacama

    April 24, 2021
    Black and white kingfisher eating a fish

    Gallery: some birds that eat fish

    March 18, 2021
    Fierce-looking owl

    Gallery: owl portraits, striped and speckled

    June 12, 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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