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  • Destinations
    • England
      • London
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    • Europe
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      • 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
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      • Mid-week Monochrome
      • One-to-Three
      • Ten photos
      • Thursday Trios
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  • About me
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  • Lens-Artists,  My photography,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: tell us why

    September 28, 2023 / 58 Comments
    Collage of small photos

    Picking favourites is never easy. People ask me, what is your favourite place you have visited, and I usually struggle to choose. If I’m permitted a top five or top ten it’s easier; but ask me tomorrow and I may come up with a different list. And ask me WHY it is a favourite, and I may find it hard to articulate why one place ranks higher than another in my travel memories.

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    Steep mountain catching the sun

    Gallery: glowing moments around the world

    April 9, 2023
    Black and white photo of a man on a park bench eating

    Gallery: favourite people photos of 2021

    January 5, 2022
    Red lantern, blue wall, green shutters

    2020: my (pandemic) year in review

    January 3, 2021
  • Architecture,  History,  Lens-Artists,  Monday walks,  Paris,  Street photography

    A stroll through more of the Marais

    September 18, 2023 / 57 Comments
    Fountain in a small park with elegant houses around

    The Place des Vosges must be one of the most beautiful corners of this beautiful city. Like the Place Dauphine it owes its existence to the city planning ambitions of Henri IV. It was laid out as an elegant residential square where the upper echelons of Parisian society could live and socialise. Much has changed since then, not least due to the Revolution, but it remains as elegant as ever.

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    Small church on a wooded mountainside

    Asen’s Fortress and the Church of the Holy Mother of God

    August 18, 2021
    Colourful paper lanterns at night

    Gallery: let there be light

    September 21, 2021
    View of cathedral on far side of river, with large crane

    Rising from the ashes: Notre Dame in 2021

    September 30, 2021
  • History,  Lens-Artists,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: where time stands still

    September 10, 2023 / 76 Comments
    Man with a horse and cart passing a low blue painted house

    There are places in the world where time seems to stand still. Places where you can feel the weight of history. Places where the people who came before you seem still to linger, just out of sight and reach.

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    Looking over an Italian hill town

    The Palio della Balestra in Gubbio: a centuries-old tradition

    November 26, 2020
    Grassy mounds and statues of sheep

    Around the world in ten photos: day three

    December 19, 2020
    Simple shop in a wooden shack and toddler in the scruffy lane alongside

    Learning through travelling

    January 30, 2022
  • Colour,  Lens-Artists,  Photographic techniques,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: what is monochrome, exactly?

    September 4, 2023 / 60 Comments
    Colourful balloons in front of an old building

    The terms ‘black and white’ and ‘monochrome’ are often used synonymously in photography. But when you consider the meaning of the latter you quickly realise that they need not be the same thing. A black and white photo can be described as monochrome, but a monochrome image isn’t necessarily black and white. Monochrome simply means ‘one colour’, so any photo dominated by shades of a single colour can be said to be monochrome.

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    Row of impala drinking from a river

    Monochrome in colour: creating an impact

    November 1, 2020
    Two elephants in long grass in black and white

    Two ways: black and white or colour?

    November 6, 2020
    Colourfully painted houses on a cobbled street

    A postcard from Colombia: a street corner in Guatapé

    February 15, 2023
  • Colour,  Lens-Artists,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: celebrating reds, yellows and blues

    August 28, 2023 / 60 Comments
    Woman in colourful dress in front of a blue building

    Today’s rainbow will have only three colours: red, yellow and blue. Why? Because they are the primary colours from which all other colours can be made.

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    Purple flowers against the sky

    Gallery: purple blowing my mind

    May 15, 2023
    Bright red berries

    Gallery: the colours of the season

    December 16, 2021
    Large pink flower

    Gallery: in the pink in Colombia

    March 8, 2023
  • Lens-Artists,  Photographic techniques,  Street photography,  Sunday Stills,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: faces in the crowd

    August 22, 2023 / 65 Comments
    Group of of people climbing steps, one looking back

    With 7.888 billion people in our world it shouldn’t be hard to find someone interesting to photograph. Yet, among so many, how do we find the ones that stand out from the crowd? Which are the faces that speak to us? Which seem to tell a story that can be captured in a single shot? Perhaps it’s their clothing, their expression or what they are doing?

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    Bright yellow gourds on a wooden bench

    Gallery: kitchens in time and place

    July 4, 2023
    Lobster pots, small boats and a distant castle on a hill

    Gallery: an ode to beautiful Northumberland (shhh!)

    November 28, 2022
    Manipulated photo of cornflowers and moon

    Gallery: playing around with effects from Enlight

    November 29, 2020
  • Lens-Artists,  Photographic techniques,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: in the frame

    August 15, 2023 / 61 Comments
    Mountain view framed by trees

    Have you ever watched an artist at work and seen them hold up their hands, using fingers and thumbs to create a rough rectangle? They are considering how best to frame their subject; what to include and what to omit.

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    Collage of three landscape photos

    Gallery: changing environments around the world

    April 16, 2023
    Orthodox cathedral at the end of a wide street

    Gallery: Sofia’s St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral

    March 7, 2021
    Black and white photo of a man on a park bench eating

    Gallery: favourite people photos of 2021

    January 5, 2022
  • Art,  Crafts,  Lens-Artists

    Works in progress around the world

    August 6, 2023 / 46 Comments
    Half-finished relief carving of people in ancient dress

    One thing I always enjoy while travelling is to see artists at work or locals demonstrating local crafts. It helps me to understand and appreciate the artistic traditions of a country. It can also open my eyes to the amount of effort that has gone into creating some of the beautiful things I see around me.

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    Sculpture of a lion outside a building with columns

    Gallery: some of the many monuments of Sofia

    October 15, 2022

    Gallery: tripling the impact

    April 8, 2022
    Large flying horse made of disjointed metal parts

    Radical Horizons: the Art of Burning Man at Chatsworth

    August 27, 2022
  • Lens-Artists,  Monochrome Madness,  Photographic techniques,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: unconsidered trifles (in monochrome)

    August 2, 2023 / 51 Comments
    Knotted string

    Autolycus is a peddler and pickpocket. No one’s possessions are safe when he is around! But what he regards as ‘unconsidered trifles’ may be of great importance to their owner. In the same way what many might see and dismiss as insignificant, a photographer may spot and deem worthy of an image. A photographer too therefore is often a ‘snapper-up of unconsidered trifles’.

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    Tall trees, lots of ferns

    Gallery: on the Hall of Mosses trail

    November 24, 2020
    Collage of seven different photos

    Gallery: so which did you choose?

    January 18, 2023
    Water reflecting the sky with clouds and low sun

    The sun will come out tomorrow (and I will photograph it)

    November 9, 2020
  • 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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    Low cliffs and palm trees silhouetted against the sun

    Gallery: when the light is right

    August 23, 2021
    Simple candlestick with slim coloured candles

    A tale of two cathedrals

    June 18, 2023
    Sculpture of a man seated on a bench with a magnifying glass superimposed

    Gallery: getting closer and closer

    March 13, 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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