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  • 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
        • 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
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  • Challenges
    • General challenges
      • Friendly Friday
        • The Friendly Friday Challenge: how to join in
      • Monday walks
      • Writers’ Quotes Wednesday
    • Photography challenges
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      • Life in Colour
      • One-to-Three
      • Photographing Public Art
      • Pick a Word
      • Squares
      • Sunday Stills
      • The Changing Seasons
      • Thursday Trios
      • Cee’s challenges
        • CBWC
        • CFFC
        • CMMC
    • Challenges archive
      • Bird Weekly
      • Friday’s Foods of the World
      • Just One Person
      • Ten photos
      • Thursday Doors
  • About me
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  • Animals,  Botswana,  Kenya,  Lens-Artists,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: making eyes at me

    June 27, 2022 / 45 Comments
    Close up of a giraffe's eye

    Giraffes’ eyes are beautiful but they can look rather mournful. Maybe that’s a touch of anthropomorphism, attributing human emotions to an animal? And yet …

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    Back of whale with mountainous coast behind

    Thar she blows – eventually!

    July 7, 2021
    Hairy animal holding a tree trunk

    The oddities of sloths

    March 6, 2022
    Black and white monkey in a tree with small orange fruits

    Gallery: wildlife in the Caño Negra refuge

    March 17, 2022
  • Architecture,  Lens-Artists,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: when one door closes …

    June 20, 2022 / 44 Comments
    Closed sign on a shop door

    We all know that saying: when one door closes another one opens. Doors symbolise opportunity, a chance to discover something new and maybe unexpected. There’s also a sense of mystery about a door, especially an unusual one. What would we find were we able to open it?

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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
    Empty airport seating area

    Gallery: Wonsan Kalma International Airport sits deserted

    May 7, 2021
    Street of traditional Japanese houses

    Gallery: the merchant houses of Takayama

    September 23, 2020
  • Gardens,  Lens-Artists,  London,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: on our doorstep

    June 12, 2022 / 50 Comments
    River with boats and houses on the far bank

    Anyone who has spent even five minutes exploring my blog will know that I love to travel. The world is full of wonderful places to explore! But I have to admit that there are some pretty wonderful places right on my doorstep too.

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    Landscape with church and autumn trees

    Signs of autumn at Emmetts Garden

    September 27, 2021
    Italianate garden with statues and a fountain

    Around the world in ten photos: day eight

    December 24, 2020
    Garden with orange and palm trees

    A walk in the gardens of Seville’s Real Alcázar

    December 22, 2021
  • Lens-Artists,  Photographic techniques

    Gallery: less is more (minimalism in photography)

    June 6, 2022 / 41 Comments
    Black and white photo of tree and rocks

    Keeping things simple doesn’t mean taking it easy. Sometimes it’s harder to leave things out when composing an image than to include them. There can be a temptation to cram everything in, to show it all in a single image. However, often your subject will have more impact on the viewer if it stands alone, free of clutter. This is something I try for in all my photography; leaving the non-essentials out of an image. But sometimes keeping it simple isn’t enough; I want to strip away almost everything to…

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    Three women in red checked fabric wraps

    The Maasai people of the Ngorongoro Crater

    January 25, 2021
    Giraffe eating

    Giraffe Manor: getting up close and personal

    January 11, 2021
    Cityscape with river in the distance

    The bliss of returning to the air

    November 24, 2021
  • Architecture,  Lens-Artists,  Themed galleries

    Buildings three ways (three of a kind)

    May 29, 2022 / 41 Comments
    Three photos in a black frame showing an oriental palace and some details

    Every picture tells a story. But sometimes it’s useful to have more than one picture to expand on the narrative. If one picture can tell a story, what more can three tell us? Here I’ve chosen to focus on some impressive buildings I’ve visited around the world. I’ll show you the overall appearance, share a detail that caught my eye and introduce you to a person or people I saw there. Hopefully this will bring these buildings to life in a way a single image could never do.

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    Ornate marble pillars holding up carved ceilings

    Chaumukha Mandir, the four-faced temple of Ranakpur

    March 1, 2021
    Several bridges over a river

    Newcastle: a city and its river

    February 18, 2021
    Ornate door and building

    Gallery: the doors of Tallinn

    October 24, 2020
  • England,  Lens-Artists,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: one small thing

    May 24, 2022 / 49 Comments
    Bee on a white flower

    When our first lockdown was introduced in March 2020 I knew I was going to find the coming weeks (as I naively thought then!) rather tough. I would miss my social life, my cinema visits, my travels and little treats such as coffee or breakfast in our favourite local haunts. I also knew that I would be helped enormously by focusing on the smaller pleasures of life: a sunset, a pretty flower, birdsong, a message from a friend …

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    Entrance to a white building on a pier

    Gallery: a walk along Brighton’s prom and pier

    October 26, 2021
    Old boat and rail track on a shingle beach

    Gallery: at the edge of England

    November 11, 2020
    Small round temple-style structure among trees

    King John was not a good man: Runnymede

    March 21, 2021
  • Lens-Artists,  New Mexico

    Gallery: the Very Large Array

    May 16, 2022 / 25 Comments
    Line of white telescope dishes on a grassy plain with distant mountains

    The massive radio telescopes of the Very Large Array, 27 of them, rise majestically out of New Mexico’s vast, otherwise almost empty, Plains of San Augustin like visitors from another world. But these are not visitors from another world, but searchers for such a world.

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    Mountain landscape

    To touch the sky: the Torres del Paine

    May 30, 2021
    Three women in red checked fabric wraps

    The Maasai people of the Ngorongoro Crater

    January 25, 2021
    Red lantern, blue wall, green shutters

    2020: my (pandemic) year in review

    January 3, 2021
  • Architecture,  Lens-Artists,  Photographic techniques,  Sunday Stills,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: looking out from the shadows

    May 7, 2022 / 68 Comments
    Series of ornate arches with trees beyond

    Who hasn’t explored a building, maybe an impressive fortress or palace, and had one of those ‘wow’ moments as you emerge from the darkness of the building to an arch or window revealing the lightness outside?

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    Large adobe church with white doors and crosses on towers

    Around the world in ten photos: day six

    December 22, 2020
    Half-timbered building seen above a hedge

    A misty morning visit to Stokesay Castle

    July 14, 2021
    Banner with photo of a tightrope walker

    Friendly Friday: meet a young tightrope walker in Jaisalmer

    August 27, 2021
  • Lens-Artists,  Street photography,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: shots to make you smile (I hope)

    April 25, 2022 / 42 Comments
    Seagull on a pay for parking sign

    We could all use a laugh from time to time, and maybe more than ever over the last few years. It seems to be part of human nature to look for humour in the darkest times.

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    Giraffe eating

    Giraffe Manor: getting up close and personal

    January 11, 2021
    Closed sign on a shop door

    Gallery: when one door closes …

    June 20, 2022
    Pink blossom

    Gallery: April in Ealing

    April 11, 2021
  • Colour,  Lens-Artists,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: expressions of a single colour

    April 17, 2022 / 38 Comments
    Turquoise sea with light and shaded areas

    Photography is of course all about colour. Even black and white photos are rarely just that but are all tones of grey. And good colour photography relies on the judicious combination of different shades, whether complementary or clashing or somewhere in between.

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    Two elephants in long grass in black and white

    Two ways: black and white or colour?

    November 6, 2020
    Very large green snail sculpture

    Gallery: giant snails invading Riga!

    November 12, 2021
    Row of impala drinking from a river

    Monochrome in colour: creating an impact

    November 1, 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

Some topics I’ve touched on

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