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  • Destinations
    • England
      • London
      • Newcastle-upon-Tyne
    • Europe
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      • 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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  • England,  Landscape,  Lens-Artists,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: an ode to beautiful Northumberland (shhh!)

    November 28, 2022 / 54 Comments
    Lobster pots, small boats and a distant castle on a hill

    Are there places you know and love which you hesitate to tell others about, because you are tempted to keep them to yourself? Places relatively unknown that you fear might become spoiled if discovered by too many? And yet, they are so lovely you can’t resist singing their praises!

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    Wartime sign about spies

    Cracking the code at Bletchley Park

    June 19, 2021
    Close up of peeling white bark

    Gallery: barking up the wrong tree?

    July 9, 2021
    Ruined stone church

    A stroll around Fountains Abbey

    August 29, 2022
  • Architecture,  Chile,  Culture & tradition

    Chiloé: a place of witches and gnomes

    August 4, 2022 / 37 Comments
    Colourful houses built over water

    Islands are often special places, removed as much in their culture from the mainland as they are physically separate from it. Chiloé is no exception. This is a place of soft green hills, wild coasts and homely architecture. Famed for its wooden churches, sixteen of which are UNESCO listed, its people still more than half believe in the witches, ghost ships and forest gnomes that inhabit its mythologies.

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    Looking down a spiral staircase

    Gallery: the perfect simplicity of a spiral staircase

    October 10, 2021
    Small boats on a river with grassy banks and old buildings

    A sunny day out in Cambridge, part one

    July 19, 2022
    Large square with historic buildings and tourists

    In ancient Bhaktapur, a royal capital

    November 24, 2022
  • Costa Rica,  Nature and wildlife

    Will we see whales?

    February 24, 2022 / 63 Comments
    Whale's tale

    Sorry, we were told, when we planned our stay on Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula; February is a bit early in the season to see humpback whales in Drake Bay and there are no tours running. Slightly disappointed, we settled for a day visiting Caño Island. We were promised great snorkelling and a landing on a beautiful island. But not whales.

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    Hairy animal holding a tree trunk

    The oddities of sloths

    March 6, 2022
    Wall painting of a blue hummingbird

    Gallery: spotting street art in Sant Elena

    February 26, 2022
    Dark pink flower head

    Gallery: in the garden, Costa Rican style

    March 12, 2022
  • Animals,  Galapagos Islands,  Lens-Artists,  Sunday Stills

    Spotting wildlife in the Galápagos Islands

    January 23, 2022 / 59 Comments
    Large yellow reptile looking at camera

    For many years I wanted to visit the Galápagos: to walk on these remote islands where unique species thrive, where Darwin first developed the ideas that would change our understanding of nature, and where animals have never learned to fear humankind. In 2012 I realised my dream; and fortunately, it more than lived up to my expectations!

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    Two elephants in long grass

    Gallery: the animals went in two by two …           

    June 7, 2022
    Rhino in long grass

    We’re going on a rhino hunt!

    December 8, 2022
    River and wooded shore with reflections

    Gallery: on the Narayani River

    November 16, 2022
  • Animals,  Botswana,  Eco-tourism,  Monday walks

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

    May 25, 2021 / 19 Comments
    Dead tree and long grass

    While the safety of a jeep is comforting and often necessary on safari, there is nothing to beat the experience of walking through the African countryside on foot. A slight frisson of danger accompanies you as you step carefully through the long grass. The only sounds are those of the wildlife around you and the breeze through the trees; the only scents those wafted on that same breeze.

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    Back of whale with mountainous coast behind

    Thar she blows – eventually!

    July 7, 2021
    Face of a sloth among large leaves

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

    February 17, 2023
    Lioness followed by two cubs

    Gallery: when three is better than two

    January 21, 2022
  • Bird Weekly,  Birds,  Galapagos Islands

    Blue feet, red feet, any coloured feet …

    May 18, 2021 / 24 Comments
    Two birds with turquoise feet

    There are several species indelibly linked in the mind with the Galápagos Islands, and one of these is certainly the blue-footed booby. The distinctive feet that give it its name, almost turquoise in colour, really are as bright and bizarre-looking as they seem in the photos!

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    Two bright green birds in a dead tree

    Bird weekly #52: birds with long tail feathers

    June 18, 2021
    Fierce-looking owl

    Gallery: owl portraits, striped and speckled

    June 12, 2021
    Lake with heron in foreground and large house beyond

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

    July 4, 2021
  • Culture & tradition,  Monday walks,  Senegal

    A village built on shells

    May 11, 2021 / 26 Comments
    Village street with men sitting on bench

    Fadiouth is an island village, and a rather unique one. It is also known as Shell Island, and the reason for this is pretty obvious; it is built on layers and layers of shells. These have accumulated over the centuries as the locals subsisted on cockle fishing in the shallows of the mangrove lagoons and simply discarded the shells, or used them as building materials.

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    Row of moai

    Rapa Nui: the mystery of the moai

    October 18, 2020
    Street of adobe houses

    Acoma Pueblo: a place prepared

    January 13, 2021
    Rock face with small caves and bushes

    In the footsteps of the Anasazi: Tsankawi

    May 3, 2022
  • Botswana,  Landscape,  Monday walks,  Nature and wildlife

    A walk on Palm Island: hippos, hogs and crocs

    May 4, 2021 / 24 Comments
    Savannah landscape under blue sky

    It was early morning in Botswana’s Okavango Delta. As we stepped ashore from the small boat our guide, Slade, immediately stopped to load his rifle. It was a somewhat disconcerting start to our walk, to say the least. He then gave us a short briefing on how to stay safe during our time on Palm Island, one of hundreds that dot the delta.

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    Aerial view of green swampland with river channels

    Video: flying to the Okavango Delta

    February 27, 2021
    Bed decorated with leaves and seeds

    Wherever I lay my hat … (continued)

    January 6, 2021
    Dead tree and long grass

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

    May 25, 2021
  • Animals,  Friendly Friday,  Galapagos Islands

    The ‘Christmas’ marine iguanas of Española Island

    December 6, 2020 / 14 Comments
    Red and black igiana

    For many of us the colours red and green trigger memories of Christmas. Glossy holly leaves and berries, a beautifully decorated tree, Santa in his red suit, a pile of wrapped presents. But a questionably ugly reptile? Probably not – and yet ...

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    Two elephants among trees

    Elephant encounters on elephant terms

    September 13, 2020
    Close up of a giraffe's eye

    Gallery: making eyes at me

    June 27, 2022
    Face of a sloth among large leaves

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

    February 17, 2023
  • Birds,  Galapagos Islands

    The waved albatross of Española Island

    December 3, 2020 / 20 Comments
    Large bird among rocks

    The trail across Española Island to the cliffs of Puerto Egas requires a little effort. In places it is almost like walking on stepping stones, moving from one lava boulder to the next along the route. But the reward at the end of the path is enormous – and I use that word advisedly.

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    Black and white kingfisher eating a fish

    Gallery: some birds that eat fish

    March 18, 2021
    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
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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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