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    • England
      • London
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    • Europe
      • Albania
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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
        • 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
      • Friday’s Foods of the World
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      • Mid-week Monochrome
      • One-to-Three
      • Ten photos
      • Thursday Trios
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  • Lens-Artists,  Photographic techniques,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: full frame impact

    November 12, 2023 / 49 Comments
    Close-up of delicate mauve and yellow flower

    In photography, when you choose to fill the frame with your subject, leaving out everything that surrounds it, you remove all distractions and by doing so force the viewer to look only at this one thing. This can be very impactful.

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    Two boys cycling past a utility box painted with a figure from South Park

    Gallery: boxing clever in Tirana

    May 14, 2023
    Back of whale with mountainous coast behind

    Thar she blows – eventually!

    July 7, 2021
    Collage of seven different photos

    Gallery: so which did you choose?

    January 18, 2023
  • Colour,  Lens-Artists,  Photographic techniques,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: what is monochrome, exactly?

    September 4, 2023 / 60 Comments
    Colourful balloons in front of an old building

    The terms ‘black and white’ and ‘monochrome’ are often used synonymously in photography. But when you consider the meaning of the latter you quickly realise that they need not be the same thing. A black and white photo can be described as monochrome, but a monochrome image isn’t necessarily black and white. Monochrome simply means ‘one colour’, so any photo dominated by shades of a single colour can be said to be monochrome.

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    Pink flowers half-silhouetted against a pink sky

    Gallery: looking on the pink side

    October 18, 2021
    Very large green snail sculpture

    Gallery: giant snails invading Riga!

    November 12, 2021
    Small purple blossoms

    Gallery: a bouquet of purple flowers

    August 11, 2021
  • Colour,  Lens-Artists,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: celebrating reds, yellows and blues

    August 28, 2023 / 60 Comments
    Woman in colourful dress in front of a blue building

    Today’s rainbow will have only three colours: red, yellow and blue. Why? Because they are the primary colours from which all other colours can be made.

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    Lots of metal lanterns hanging

    Gallery: all that glitters is not gold (or silver)

    December 15, 2021
    Two men in Arab robes on a sand dune

    Gallery: blackness against the light

    January 30, 2023
    Blue and turquoise mosaic

    Gallery: feeling the blues

    November 11, 2021
  • Lens-Artists,  Photographic techniques,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: keeping it simple

    July 10, 2023 / 68 Comments
    White rope coiled around blue posts on a blue boat

    How often have you said, there’s nothing of interest here to photograph? Not often, I hope! Look at things with a photographer’s eyes and you will almost always find a way to make them look interesting. A broom, a piece of rope, a paintbrush, a few vegetables. All of these and more are food for the hungry camera!

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    Orthodox cathedral at the end of a wide street

    Gallery: Sofia’s St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral

    March 7, 2021
    Pink blossom

    Gallery: April in Ealing

    April 11, 2021
    Blue lake and distant mountains

    Gallery: I want to meet you in the big sky country

    February 27, 2022
  • Flowers,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: flowers for Bren

    June 16, 2023 / 48 Comments
    Soft focus rose and other flowers

    We are saying goodbye this week to a much-valued member of our blogging community, Bren, who sadly died quite recently. Her photography blog has long been a favourite of mine, and an inspiration in my own photographic experiments. Her creative, atmospheric monochrome shots and beautiful soft-focus flowers were always a pleasure to view.

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    Pink and white flowers against a deep blue sky

    Gallery: the magnificent magnolias of March

    March 23, 2022
    Dark pink flower head

    Gallery: in the garden, Costa Rican style

    March 12, 2022
    Two white bell towers

    A stroll around Tavira

    April 29, 2022
  • CMMC,  Rajasthan,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: intriguingly incomparable India

    May 25, 2023 / 57 Comments
    White wall with a painting of the god Ganesh and a blue door

    Picture India, and you are quite likely picturing Rajasthan. A land of ruined fortresses and long-abandoned palaces whose stones speak evocatively of past maharajas. A desert land where rural life is tough and little-changed over the centuries, yet vibrant and full of colour. A land whose people know how to celebrate and how to welcome strangers.

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    Small bird hovering by purple flowers

    Gallery: searching for M and M

    July 29, 2023
    Blue and turquoise mosaic

    Gallery: feeling the blues

    November 11, 2021
    Dark red flower

    Gallery: looking closely at Nepal

    January 6, 2023
  • Colour,  Sunday Stills,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: purple blowing my mind

    May 15, 2023 / 36 Comments
    Purple flowers against the sky

    Purple is the colour of wealth and royalty. Its rich tones call to mind the trappings of majesty and ceremony. Its blend of red and blue means that it lies carries messages both of tranquillity and of passion. Purple is also the colour of creativity, as it fosters creativity by stimulating our senses while also promoting the calmness needed for thoughtful observation and introspection. And it just happens to be my favourite colour too!

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    Bright red berries

    Gallery: the colours of the season

    December 16, 2021
    Detail of traditional Chinese roof with small ornamental figures

    Gallery: never jaded by jade

    March 14, 2022
    Group of ladies in pink saris

    Gallery: La Vie en Rose in Rajasthan

    June 14, 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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    Single storey houses in bright colours

    A wander through Getsemani

    March 21, 2023
    Steep-sided valley with tall palm trees and other vegetation

    A (steep) walk in the Valle Cocora

    March 13, 2023
    Large cobbled square surrounded by low white buildings

    A postcard from Colombia: Villa de Leyva

    February 8, 2023
  • Colombia,  Colour,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: an explosion of colour in Colombia

    April 7, 2023 / 41 Comments
    Street of brightly painted houses

    You may be tired by now of me saying that Colombia is colourful, but hopefully not of seeing the evidence. Many of its small towns are as imbued with colour as the cities; indeed maybe more so as they don’t spill out into more drab commercial and industrial areas. Passing through even the smallest village I would spot murals on local bars, bright doors and windows on the houses.

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    Single storey houses in bright colours

    A wander through Getsemani

    March 21, 2023
    Colourfully painted houses on a cobbled street

    A postcard from Colombia: a street corner in Guatapé

    February 15, 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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    Steep-sided valley with tall palm trees and other vegetation

    A (steep) walk in the Valle Cocora

    March 13, 2023
    Colourful mural street art depicting two women

    Gallery: the street art of Candelaria, Bogota

    February 24, 2023
    Colourfully dressed women on a pavement

    The palenqueras of Cartagena de Indias

    August 31, 2023
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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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