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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
          • 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
      • Just One Person
      • Life in Colour
      • Mid-week Monochrome
      • One-to-Three
      • Ten photos
      • Thursday Trios
      • Thursday Doors
  • About me
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  • Lens-Artists,  Photographic techniques,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: things overlooked or unseen

    July 31, 2023 / 59 Comments
    Bright coloured bracts on a stone path

    By ‘looking over’ the places we visit with our cameras, that is properly looking at and seeing them, we are less likely to ‘overlook’ a great photo opportunity.

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    Zebra with others behind

    Gallery: do opposites really attract?

    September 18, 2022
    Large statues of North Korean Leaders with visiting locals

    Gallery: statues of the Great Leaders

    February 20, 2021
    Factory gates with propaganda signs and various buildings

    Some short stories from the Hermit Kingdom

    November 28, 2021
  • Pick a Word,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: pick a word (April 2023)

    May 1, 2023 / 19 Comments
    Rocky outcrop in a green landscape with a stone wall running up the hill

    Surely our photographs help to bring words to life, and help them to live on? As always, Paula’s monthly Pick a Word challenge prompts us to match a photo to a single word and bring it to life.

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    Small round tower on a rocky islet

    Gallery: pick a word (August 2023)

    September 2, 2023
    View of rocky islet framed by leaves

    Gallery: pick a word (June 2023)

    June 24, 2023
    Black and white photo of a statue of two figures, one with a gun

    Gallery: pick a word (December)

    December 30, 2022
  • Coast & seascapes,  Iceland,  Sunday Stills

    The black lava beach of Reynisfjara

    October 12, 2022 / 32 Comments
    Black beach with distant cliffs with a rock arch

    On Iceland’s beautiful, but dangerous Reynisfjara black lava beach signs warn of the risks of getting too close to the water’s edge where ‘sneaker waves’ have been known to catch out unwary tourists and drag them out to sea. This has to be one of the classic Icelandic landscapes.

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    Group of men sitting among fishing boats on a beach

    Gallery: a traditional fishing village in Bakau

    April 10, 2021
    Roof line of yellow beach hut with yacht and seagull ornaments

    Gallery: exploring beaches, near and far

    July 7, 2022
    Man surfing in rocky sea at sunset

    Gallery: taking the plunge

    January 10, 2023
  • Pick a Word,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: pick a word (September)

    October 6, 2022 / 50 Comments
    Black and white photo of tiny fungi growing out of lichen

    According to Horace, 'A picture is a poem without words'. That would seem to be a good motto for a photography blog. But I like to write (and talk!) almost as much as I like to take photos. So my posts are usually a mix of the two, and I leave my readers to decide whether the pictures or the text say the most.

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    Monkey looking down from a branch

    Gallery: pick a word (March 2023)

    March 18, 2023
    Man with a beard in sunglasses, wearing a hat

    Gallery: pick a word (July)

    July 28, 2022
    Black and white photo of a statue of two figures, one with a gun

    Gallery: pick a word (December)

    December 30, 2022
  • Coast & seascapes,  Culture & tradition,  Friendly Friday,  Iceland,  Mountains

    Stunning landscapes of Iceland: the day the sun shone

    October 29, 2021 / 33 Comments
    Rocky coastline

    We had learned to dance in the rain on Iceland’s Golden Circle; now today we were dancing in sunshine! Well, OK, not exactly dancing but certainly smiling. The sun was shining for the first time in several days. We, all friends from the Virtual Tourist community, were enjoying each other’s company at a wonderful weekend gathering. And we were off to explore the Snæfellsnes Peninsula, so packed with scenic spots that it has been dubbed ‘Iceland in Miniature’.

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    Part of a castle wall by water

    Guarding the Solent

    August 7, 2023
    Back of whale with mountainous coast behind

    Thar she blows – eventually!

    July 7, 2021
    Dense jungle with birds circling above

    A walk in Tayrona National Park

    April 18, 2023
  • Friendly Friday,  Iceland,  Landscape

    Learning to dance in the rain: Iceland’s Golden Circle

    October 23, 2021 / 33 Comments
    Rain spattered window with blurred landscape

    What does a Golden Circle sound like to you? Something shiny for sure, and probably bright. And on a sunny day I am sure Iceland’s most popular tourist route is exactly that. But when I was there a few years ago with Virtual Tourist friends, it was anything but. If ever we needed to learn to dance in the rain, it was today!

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    Four women in kimonos passing a shop

    Gallery: these feet were made for walking …

    May 1, 2021
    Snow scene with pine trees and mountain

    Gallery: a snowy walk in Paradise

    November 21, 2020
    Looking down at snowy mountains from a plane

    Gallery: it’s a wonderful world, from above

    November 5, 2021
  • Iceland,  Photographing Public Art,  Street art,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: street art in Reykjavik

    July 23, 2021 / 34 Comments
    Colourful mural in blues and greens

    We visit Iceland for its magnificent landscapes: mountains, glaciers, waterfalls, craggy coastlines. But for street art? Probably not; and yet its capital, Reykjavik, is a cool town with plenty of beautiful and/or interesting murals to be found.

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    Black beach with distant cliffs with a rock arch

    The black lava beach of Reynisfjara

    October 12, 2022
    Rocky landscape with outcrop of stone pillars

    Around the world in ten photos: day nine

    December 26, 2020
    Top of a waterfall

    Just a few of the waterfalls of Iceland

    May 3, 2021
  • Iceland,  Landscape,  Sunday Stills

    Just a few of the waterfalls of Iceland

    May 3, 2021 / 49 Comments
    Top of a waterfall

    As mind-boggling statistics go, reading that there are estimated to be 10,000 waterfalls in the relatively small country of Iceland is up there with the best! From tiny streams trickling down a hillside to cascades as wide as they are tall, Iceland has everything a waterfall lover can want.

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    Rocky coastline

    Stunning landscapes of Iceland: the day the sun shone

    October 29, 2021
    Colourful mural in blues and greens

    Gallery: street art in Reykjavik

    July 23, 2021
    Green Aurora

    On not seeing, and seeing, the Northern Lights

    October 7, 2020
  • Iceland,  Landscape,  Ten photos

    Around the world in ten photos: day nine

    December 26, 2020 / 10 Comments
    Rocky landscape with outcrop of stone pillars

    These hexagonal pillars look more man-made than natural. They are quite regular in size, creating the impression that they were somehow manufactured. In a sense they were, but by nature rather than man.

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    Rocky coastline

    Stunning landscapes of Iceland: the day the sun shone

    October 29, 2021
    Rain spattered window with blurred landscape

    Learning to dance in the rain: Iceland’s Golden Circle

    October 23, 2021
    Black beach with distant cliffs with a rock arch

    The black lava beach of Reynisfjara

    October 12, 2022
  • Friendly Friday,  Photographic techniques

    Smoke and mirrors

    October 25, 2020 / 25 Comments
    Edited image of Ankor Wat, with reflection added

    Some say the camera never lies. But does it? Even before technology made it possible to alter reality, photographers were playing around with tricks and illusions. Today it is easier than ever to edit an image; to fool the viewer into seeing something that was never there, or not seeing something that was.

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    Colourful striped fabrics

    Gallery: abstract shapes and colours

    July 16, 2022
    Man and dog on a bench

    Recycled Spirits of Iron (Ex Nihilo)

    May 20, 2021
    Black and white photo of street signs

    Gallery: meet me on the corner

    September 2, 2022
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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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