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  • Home
  • Destinations
    • England
      • London
      • Newcastle-upon-Tyne
    • Europe
      • 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
        • 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
      • 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 Doors
      • Thursday Trios
  • About me
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  • Landscape,  Sunday Stills,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: the sound of silence

    January 25, 2023 / 54 Comments
    Moon shine reflected in the sea and framed by shadowy trees

    How do you photograph silence? Photographing a sound seems challenging enough, being invisible; but the absence of sound even more so.

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    Aerial view of green swampland with river channels

    Video: flying to the Okavango Delta

    February 27, 2021
    Rocky landscape with outcrop of stone pillars

    Around the world in ten photos: day nine

    December 26, 2020
    Rain spattered window with blurred landscape

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    October 23, 2021
  • Mountains,  Nepal,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: Himalaya vistas near Pokhara

    December 26, 2022 / 23 Comments
    View of mountains from wooded hillside

    High in the hills above Pokhara the inhabitants of small villages live much as they have always done. Theirs is a life of hard work, farming a land of steep fields and terraces. But while the work is hard, the backdrop is stunning. I wonder how often they pause to appreciate their surroundings, raising a weary head to gaze in wonder at these mountains as I did?

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    Rocky coastline

    Stunning landscapes of Iceland: the day the sun shone

    October 29, 2021
    Looking down at still blue lake in a crater

    Mount Paektu, the revolutionary mountain

    October 24, 2022
    Road through mountains with snow and pine trees

    Gallery: on the road to the future?

    January 10, 2022
  • 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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    Group of deer with antlers

    Studley Royal, a very English country garden

    September 13, 2022
    Wintery beach scene

    Gallery: blowing the cobwebs away at Druridge Bay

    January 4, 2023
    Typical Swaledale landscape

    Gallery: the barns of Swaledale

    September 5, 2020
  • Animals,  CFFC,  Nepal,  Rivers,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: on the Narayani River

    November 16, 2022 / 39 Comments
    River and wooded shore with reflections

    In the early morning mist we drifted slowly with the current, our boat man using his single oar simply to steer us. Here on the Narayani River, which skirts the northern boundary of Chitwan National Park in Nepal, the setting was beautiful, the atmosphere tranquil.

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    Hazy view of bamboo clump

    Periyar’s monkeys, elephants, bison and more

    October 4, 2021
    Large yellow reptile looking at camera

    Spotting wildlife in the Galápagos Islands

    January 23, 2022
    Three lion cubs

    Gallery: emerging into life

    April 12, 2021
  • Culture & tradition,  Mountains,  Nepal,  Postcards from the road

    A postcard from Nepal: souvenir seller

    November 10, 2022 / 24 Comments

    A statue of Shiva, the second largest in Nepal, was unveiled near Pokhara last year. A lady was selling souvenirs next to the steep path up to the statue.

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    Little boy and two little girls in Japanese costume

    Celebrating childhood at the shrines of Japan

    April 25, 2021
    Row of moai

    Rapa Nui: the mystery of the moai

    October 18, 2020
    Elaborately decorated table

    Eating like honoured guests in North Korea

    December 30, 2021
  • Mountains,  Nepal,  Postcards from the road

    A postcard from Nepal: Himalaya sunrise

    November 6, 2022 / 54 Comments

    We got up at 4.45 to go and watch the sunrise over the Himalayas - so worth it!

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    Distant mountains with colourful fabric in foreground

    Exploring the temple town of Manakamana

    December 6, 2022
    View of mountains from wooded hillside

    Gallery: Himalaya vistas near Pokhara

    December 26, 2022

    A postcard from Nepal: souvenir seller

    November 10, 2022
  • Mountains,  Nepal,  Postcards from the road

    A postcard from Nepal: Annapurna

    November 4, 2022 / 20 Comments

    The Annapurna Range of the Himalaya Mountains can be seen from Bandipur, an ancient hill town in Nepal

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    A postcard from Nepal: souvenir seller

    November 10, 2022
    Distant mountains with colourful fabric in foreground

    Exploring the temple town of Manakamana

    December 6, 2022
    Dramatic mountain landscape

    Gallery: Mountain, Desert, Jungle or Ocean?

    June 28, 2021
  • England,  The Changing Seasons

    Gallery: an August selection

    September 4, 2022 / 33 Comments
    Swan on a lake with green algae

    Although August has been hot, mostly sunny and very dry, I can already sense that summer is closer to its end than its beginning. The lights are going on earlier each evening. The warmth of the sun is tempered by a cooling breeze. And a few showers, and one day of steady rain, have started to re-green the weary grass in our parks.

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    Landscape with church and autumn trees

    Signs of autumn at Emmetts Garden

    September 27, 2021
    Brightly coloured boat approaching the shore

    Gallery: Everybody Razzle Dazzle in Liverpool

    October 1, 2021
    Large mural of orangutan with a baby

    Gallery: the colourful street art of Brighton

    October 17, 2021
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    Gallery: pick a word (August)

    August 30, 2022 / 32 Comments
    Black and white photo of a lady smoking a cigar

    Thomas Jefferson said, 'The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.' This is a maxim I would do well to follow, but I too rarely succeed in doing so.

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    Black and white photo of tiny fungi growing out of lichen

    Gallery: pick a word (September)

    October 6, 2022
    Black and white photo of a statue of two figures, one with a gun

    Gallery: pick a word (December)

    December 30, 2022
    Black and white shot of a hill with terraces and bushes

    Gallery: pick a word (November)

    November 26, 2022
  • Landscape,  Lens-Artists,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: another tequila sunrise (credit the Eagles)

    August 23, 2022 / 39 Comments
    River in foreground with deep orange sky and sun appearing

    Somehow, getting up early to watch a sunrise is so much easier when travelling. Of course it helps that the setting is usually both more beautiful and more interesting than the rooftops of our London suburbs above which we would normally see it rise.

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    Lobster pots, small boats and a distant castle on a hill

    Gallery: an ode to beautiful Northumberland (shhh!)

    November 28, 2022
    Snow scene with pine trees and mountain

    Gallery: a snowy walk in Paradise

    November 21, 2020
    Mountain landscape

    To touch the sky: the Torres del Paine

    May 30, 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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