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    • Europe
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        • Paris
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      • 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
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      • Ten photos
      • Thursday Trios
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  • Colombia,  Monday walks,  Photographing Public Art,  Street art,  Street photography,  Sunday Stills

    A wander through Getsemani

    March 21, 2023 / 50 Comments
    Single storey houses in bright colours

    Historically, Getsemani is the area of Cartagena where African slaves lived during colonial times. The Spanish had imported them (after they’d killed off most of the native population) to build their fortifications: the city walls and the Castillo San Felipe de Barajas. They were housed here, outside the city walls, away from the grand homes of the soldiers and merchants who controlled it.

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    Black and white photo of a hibiscus flower

    Gallery: seeing Colombia in black and white

    March 16, 2023
    Two women in colourful traditional dress looking at mobile phones

    Gallery: a February selection (2023)

    March 3, 2023
    Soft focus image of a dramatic flower

    Gallery: soft orchids from Colombia

    February 22, 2023
  • Colombia,  Pick a Word,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: pick a word (March 2023)

    March 18, 2023 / 33 Comments
    Monkey looking down from a branch

    For most of us photos are an integral to our memories of life’s events. How we remember them is shaped by the moments we captured. In my travel photography I am usually juggling two aims. I want to capture the ‘what’, create a documentary record of each trip. But I’m also interested in ‘how’ I record and remember it, striving to create the best images I can.

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    Large pink flower

    Gallery: in the pink in Colombia

    March 8, 2023
    Soft focus image of a dramatic flower

    Gallery: soft orchids from Colombia

    February 22, 2023
    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
  • Colombia,  Mid-week Monochrome,  Monochrome Madness,  Photographic techniques,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: seeing Colombia in black and white

    March 16, 2023 / 32 Comments
    Black and white photo of a hibiscus flower

    Colombia is one of the most colourful countries I’ve ever visited, possibly the most colourful. So it seems counter-intuitive to present it in black and white. Yet however colourful the destination there are always likely to be at least a few images that I feel merit experimentation. Ones in which form dominates the composition. Ones with strong contrasts and patterns.

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    Balconies with Comuna 13 in large colourful letters

    Finding peace in Medellín

    March 6, 2023
    Large cobbled square surrounded by low whitewashed buildings

    A stroll around Villa de Leyva

    February 27, 2023
    Engraved gold band

    A postcard from Colombia: finding gold

    February 6, 2023
  • Colombia,  Landscape,  Monday walks,  Sunday Stills,  Trees, forests and woodland

    A (steep) walk in the Valle Cocora

    March 13, 2023 / 41 Comments
    Steep-sided valley with tall palm trees and other vegetation

    Cocora was a princess, daughter of Acaime, chief of the local Quimbaya indigenous people. Today she lends her name to Colombia’s Cocora Valley, where the native wax palms (the national tree) grow up to 60 metres and live for about 200 years.

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    Large cobbled square surrounded by low whitewashed buildings

    A stroll around Villa de Leyva

    February 27, 2023
    Colourful mural street art depicting two women

    Gallery: the street art of Candelaria, Bogota

    February 24, 2023
    Colourfully painted houses on a cobbled street

    A postcard from Colombia: a street corner in Guatapé

    February 15, 2023
  • Art,  Colombia,  Photographing Public Art

    The unique vision of Fernando Botero

    March 10, 2023 / 39 Comments
    Sculpture of a large bald head from the rear, with a bald man standing next to it

    You can’t really miss the unique style of Colombia’s most famous artist. Whether on canvas or in sculpture, his figures are exaggeratedly rotund. The innate humour of these people, and animals, is often offset by sharp political commentary or by pensive contemplation of his own life and family. Indeed the theme of family is central to much of his work.

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    Huge sculpture with outspread wings

    The Angel of the North

    December 8, 2020
    Street art with three Mona Lisa inspired murals

    Gallery: art comes in threes

    July 22, 2022
    Street with low houses and woman carrying a basket

    Weird and wonderful: forbidden culture in Cuenca

    October 24, 2021
  • Colombia,  Colour,  Flowers,  Nature Photo Challenge,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: in the pink in Colombia

    March 8, 2023 / 42 Comments
    Large pink flower

    A number of you seemed to enjoy seeing my Colombian orchids. Now Denzil gives me an excuse to share some more flowers from that beautiful country.

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    Balconies with Comuna 13 in large colourful letters

    Finding peace in Medellín

    March 6, 2023
    Black and white photo of a hibiscus flower

    Gallery: seeing Colombia in black and white

    March 16, 2023
    Ruined building among trees

    A postcard from Colombia: Pablo Escobar’s former lakeside retreat

    February 13, 2023
  • Colombia,  History,  Lens-Artists,  Monday walks,  Photographing Public Art,  Street art,  Street photography

    Finding peace in Medellín

    March 6, 2023 / 53 Comments
    Balconies with Comuna 13 in large colourful letters

    How do you find peace in a city rife with crime and violence? During the 1980s and most of the 1990s Medellín had the reputation of being one of the most violent cities in the world.

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    Ruined building among trees

    A postcard from Colombia: Pablo Escobar’s former lakeside retreat

    February 13, 2023
    Large pink flower

    Gallery: in the pink in Colombia

    March 8, 2023
    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
  • Colombia,  The Changing Seasons,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: a February selection (2023)

    March 3, 2023 / 62 Comments
    Two women in colourful traditional dress looking at mobile phones

    February is my least favourite month! That’s why we often choose to travel somewhere warmer at this time of year. Consequently, I spent well over half of February in colourful Colombia, and the remainder in wintery London, so you can guess what the majority of my highlight photos from this month will have been taken!

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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
    Large cobbled square surrounded by low whitewashed buildings

    A stroll around Villa de Leyva

    February 27, 2023
  • 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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    Large heron on top of a mangrove tree

    Gallery: the birds of the Gambia

    February 22, 2021
    Two flamingos feeding

    Gallery: reflecting on birds

    March 27, 2021
    Hairy animal holding a tree trunk

    The oddities of sloths

    March 6, 2022
  • Architecture,  Colombia,  History,  Monday walks

    A stroll around Villa de Leyva

    February 27, 2023 / 34 Comments
    Large cobbled square surrounded by low whitewashed buildings

    Colombia’s Villa de Leyva is one of those places where time seems to have stopped still. Or at least, it would seem that way were it not for the large number of visitors, both Colombian and international, who descend on the town to see its perfectly preserved colonial architecture and huge main square. This is a town that is as much museum as place to live.

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    Red crumbling ruins

    ‘Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!’

    August 12, 2021
    White painted cathedral

    A city shaped by earthquakes

    October 27, 2021
    Black and white photo of white building

    Gallery: seeking geometry in architecture

    March 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

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