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  • Destinations
    • England
      • London
      • Newcastle-upon-Tyne
    • Europe
      • Albania
      • Austria
      • Bulgaria
      • 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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  • Flowers,  London,  Newcastle-upon-Tyne,  The Changing Seasons,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: a May selection (2023)

    May 30, 2023 / 14 Comments
    Pale tulip against a dark background

    May is an especially lovely month in England. At the start of the month spring is at its height, while by the end there are hints of the summer to come. With spring being late this year, the early part of May felt more like April, with chilly winds and frequent showers. But the trees were green at last after the winter bareness, and there were flowers everywhere!

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    Green valley with blue sky above

    Those blue remembered hills: Cardingmill Valley

    July 8, 2021
    Cluster of pink flowers

    Gallery: inspired by spring blossoms

    March 26, 2022
    Black and white photo of a single magnolia flower

    Gallery: spring sunshine, but in monochrome?

    March 21, 2022
  • London,  Nature Photo Challenge,  Plants,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: finding peace in the park

    May 26, 2023 / 47 Comments
    Bee on yellow flowers

    Like many Londoners (and indeed town dwellers worldwide) I discovered the pleasures of our local park during the pandemic lockdowns. Whether on our permitted visits to the shops or on the also permitted daily walks close to home, Walpole Park was our refuge and our delight.

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    Gold bauble on a frosted artificial tree

    Gallery: a December selection

    January 1, 2023
    Squirrel with a conker in his mouth

    A neighbourhood walk

    October 31, 2020
    Large illuminated reindeer model

    Celebrating Christmas in London and (a little way) beyond

    December 6, 2021
  • 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 bright green birds in a dead tree

    Bird weekly #52: birds with long tail feathers

    June 18, 2021
    Large bird among rocks

    The waved albatross of Española Island

    December 3, 2020
    Lake with heron in foreground and large house beyond

    Gallery: a Grey Heron at Osterley Park (and friends)

    July 4, 2021
  • Albania,  England,  Flowers,  Rivers,  Street photography,  The Changing Seasons,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: an April selection (2023)

    May 2, 2023 / 41 Comments
    White blossom and deep blue sky

    As well as being a successful novelist and poet, Vita Sackville-West is known for the beautiful gardens she created at Sissinghurst in Kent. She will have welcomed April as all gardeners do … but maybe not the April we have had this year.

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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
    White statue of a saint against a blue sky

    Sweet freedoms in Tirana

    May 8, 2023
    A large 1960s style home

    The legacy of Enver Hoxha

    May 13, 2023
  • Flowers,  London,  Nature Photo Challenge,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: tulips from London, not Amsterdam

    April 6, 2023 / 56 Comments
    Red, yellow and purple tulips

    While many people head to Holland to see the tulips, we have London’s Holland Park. There the Dutch Gardens are planted with formal beds edged with low hedges and overflowing with tulips every spring.

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    Large red poppy

    Gallery: is it wild if we plant it?

    July 2, 2021
    Bright yellow daisies

    Gallery: winter is dead

    May 5, 2023
    Dark pink flower head

    Gallery: in the garden, Costa Rican style

    March 12, 2022
  • Flowers,  London,  Street photography,  The Changing Seasons,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: a March selection (2023)

    April 1, 2023 / 31 Comments
    Purple flower among green leaves

    With a slow start to the spring this year it’s felt at times as if March was coming in more like a polar bear than a lion! We had sharp winds, frosts and even some snow as far south as London, although nothing like what they had further north. And even when the weather started to warm up, sunshine was in short supply.

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    PhotoSpiralysis effect on a deep purple flower

    Gallery: fabulous florals in a spin

    April 26, 2022
    Cluster of pink flowers

    Gallery: inspired by spring blossoms

    March 26, 2022
    Large pink flower

    Gallery: in the pink in Colombia

    March 8, 2023
  • 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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    Street of brightly painted houses

    Gallery: an explosion of colour in Colombia

    April 7, 2023
    Balconies with Comuna 13 in large colourful letters

    Finding peace in Medellín

    March 6, 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 / 63 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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    Pale blue birds with darker blue wings

    Gallery: feeding the birds of Colombia

    March 1, 2023
    Street of brightly painted houses

    Gallery: an explosion of colour in Colombia

    April 7, 2023
    Black and white photo of a hibiscus flower

    Gallery: seeing Colombia in black and white

    March 16, 2023
  • Colombia,  Flowers,  Lens-Artists,  Photographic techniques,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: soft orchids from Colombia

    February 22, 2023 / 65 Comments
    Soft focus image of a dramatic flower

    While a flower is transient, our images capture the memory of it forever. Maybe that’s why so many of us love to photograph them.

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    Two women in colourful traditional dress looking at mobile phones

    Gallery: a February selection (2023)

    March 3, 2023
    Cobbled street of colourful houses

    Gallery: Guatapé, town of the zócalos

    April 11, 2023
    Face of a sloth among large leaves

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

    February 17, 2023
  • CMMC,  Flowers,  Nature and wildlife,  Nepal,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: looking closely at Nepal

    January 6, 2023 / 51 Comments
    Dark red flower

    I would never claim to be the only person to have noticed the things I photograph. But I do believe I often photograph things that not EVERYONE has noticed, or thought to photograph. When I travel I of course photograph the famous sights, the landscapes, the architecture. But I also like to capture small details that, while perhaps not unique to the country, are part of my personal memories of it.

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    White wall with a painting of the god Ganesh and a blue door

    Gallery: intriguingly incomparable India

    May 25, 2023
    Blue and turquoise mosaic

    Gallery: feeling the blues

    November 11, 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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