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        • Canada
        • Chile
          • Rapa Nui
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        • Costa Rica
        • Ecuador
          • Galapagos Islands
        • Guatemala
        • Jamaica
        • USA
          • New Mexico
          • New York City
          • Washington State
      • Asia
        • DPRK
        • India
          • Kerala
          • Rajasthan
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          • Vietnam
        • Japan
        • Nepal
        • Oman
        • Syria
        • United Arab Emirates
        • Uzbekistan
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  • Kerala,  Monday walks,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: a walk in a tea plantation

    June 14, 2022 / 29 Comments
    Track through small green bushes and slender trees

    Kerala can be regarded as consisting of three parallel environments, running north to south down the state. There is the coastal strip and backwaters, where the emphasis is on fishing and trade; the slightly higher agricultural strip where pineapples, bananas and a variety of other crops are grown; and the so-called High Range, part of the Western Ghat, where tea, coffee and spices predominate.

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    Man beating white cloth

    A dhobi wallah in Fort Cochi, Kerala

    April 14, 2021
    Smiling lady on a bamboo ladder

    Gallery: in the Cardamom Hills of Kerala

    May 17, 2022
    Man sitting among motorbikes in front of a garage

    A walk in Fort Kochi, Kerala

    January 12, 2022
  • Food & drink,  Kerala,  Sunday Stills

    Gallery: in the Cardamom Hills of Kerala

    May 17, 2022 / 29 Comments
    Smiling lady on a bamboo ladder

    There’s a clue in the name! The Cardamom Hills in Kerala are famous for the growing of their namesake spice and many others besides. Peppercorns, vanilla, cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon and more are grown on the small farms here. But also coffee and different fruits such as banana, avocado and jack fruit.

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    A man with a young girl on his shoulders

    Lunch with Mr Noon and his family

    January 13, 2023
    Close-up of fried tarantulas

    Gallery: fancy a snack in Spider Town?

    April 30, 2021
    White window shutter and green leaves

    Eating out with a conscience in Indochina

    April 17, 2021
  • Kerala,  Monday walks,  Street photography,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: a stroll through a Kerala village

    January 18, 2022 / 28 Comments
    Washing drying outside a simple home on a dirt street

    Chowara is a small fishing community in Kerala. While tourism has come to the area, bringing visitors from elsewhere in India and further afield, it remains unspoiled and still focused on that traditional mainstay of its economy, the fish. Our hotel lay right next to the village, so it was easy one morning to forsake the lure of the pool and take a stroll with our cameras.

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    Man sitting among motorbikes in front of a garage

    A walk in Fort Kochi, Kerala

    January 12, 2022
    Track through small green bushes and slender trees

    Gallery: a walk in a tea plantation

    June 14, 2022
    Smiling lady on a bamboo ladder

    Gallery: in the Cardamom Hills of Kerala

    May 17, 2022
  • Kerala,  Monday walks,  Photographing Public Art

    A walk in Fort Kochi, Kerala

    January 12, 2022 / 40 Comments
    Man sitting among motorbikes in front of a garage

    On a chilly January day in London I am inevitably dreaming of warmer climes. A place where the sun is shining; where a stroll through city streets delivers colour, warmth, a bit of excitement and a lot of interest.

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    Hazy view of bamboo clump

    Periyar’s monkeys, elephants, bison and more

    October 4, 2021
    Smiling lady on a bamboo ladder

    Gallery: in the Cardamom Hills of Kerala

    May 17, 2022
    Man beating white cloth

    A dhobi wallah in Fort Cochi, Kerala

    April 14, 2021
  • Animals,  Birds,  Kerala,  Monday walks

    Periyar’s monkeys, elephants, bison and more

    October 4, 2021 / 35 Comments
    Hazy view of bamboo clump

    High in the Cardamom Hills of Kerala a national park has been created, to protect the flora and fauna of the forests that surround Periyar Lake. The aim was to stop the encroachment of tea and spice plantations; to leave enough land for the tigers, elephants and other wild creatures that call this region home.

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    Rhino eating

    A postcard from Nepal: rhinoceros

    October 30, 2022
    Hairy animal holding a tree trunk

    The oddities of sloths

    March 6, 2022
    Two elephants among trees

    Elephant encounters on elephant terms

    September 13, 2020
  • CBWC,  India,  People,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: people at work in Kerala and Rajasthan

    August 5, 2021 / 20 Comments
    Black and white photo of man with rickshaw

    If you enjoy candid photography there is no better country to visit, perhaps, than India. I have never been anywhere else where people are so comfortable to be photographed and that is its one downside, as they can be too eager to pose as soon as they see your camera. However, a posed photo can be as effective as a candid shot if you are photographing people within the setting of their workplace.

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    Black and white silhouetted figures in front of an ornate domed building

    Gallery: capturing photographers in black and white

    March 30, 2022
    White wooden doors with painting of girl in red dress

    Double dipping: a challenges overload!

    January 9, 2022
    Looking directly down at a cluster of simple houses

    Gallery: ways of seeing

    April 2, 2022
  • Culture & tradition,  Just One Person,  Kerala,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: a traditional Keralan Kathakali performance

    April 28, 2021 / 15 Comments
    Man applying colourful face paint

    In a simple room in old Fort Kochi, Kerala, a young man is gradually transforming himself. In one hand he holds a small mirror; in the other the fine brush with which he applies paint to his face. An audience of tourists watches agog, cameras flashing, phones held aloft.

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    Exterior of brick mosque with dome and minaret

    The Square of Religious Tolerance in Sofia

    April 6, 2021
    Men with fishing nets on colourfully painted wooden rowing boats

    Living on borrowed time in Djiffer

    January 11, 2023
    Distant mountains with colourful fabric in foreground

    Exploring the temple town of Manakamana

    December 6, 2022
  • Culture & tradition,  Just One Person,  Kerala

    A dhobi wallah in Fort Cochi, Kerala

    April 14, 2021 / 14 Comments
    Man beating white cloth

    At the Dhobi Khana in Fort Cochi, Kerala, nothing much has changed since the first Tamil dhobis were brought in by the Dutch Army 300 years ago to wash their uniforms. Today it is still operated by descendants of those original families, who live and work here as they have done for generations.

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    Banner with photo of a tightrope walker

    Friendly Friday: meet a young tightrope walker in Jaisalmer

    August 27, 2021
    Tiles painted with a bull's head

    Gallery: Majolica, the ceramic tiles of Seville

    November 27, 2021
    Small town beneath a forested hillside

    Meeting Maximón, the idol of Santiago Atitlàn

    December 13, 2020
  • Coast & seascapes,  Just One Person,  Kerala,  People

    The fishermen of Chowara, Kerala

    February 6, 2021 / 32 Comments
    Man in a red turban

    One of the pleasures of a stay by the sea is an early morning walk on the beach. The waves lapping the shore, the sound of sea birds, a gentle breeze … a tranquil spot in which to recharge the batteries. But what most of us regard as a welcome break from our day to day lives is for others a place of work, and hard work at that.

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    Man surfing in rocky sea at sunset

    Gallery: taking the plunge

    January 10, 2023
    Dramatic mountain landscape

    Gallery: Mountain, Desert, Jungle or Ocean?

    June 28, 2021
    Large tree trunks on a beach and foggy offshore islets

    Around the world in ten photos: day one

    December 17, 2020

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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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