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  • Home
  • Destinations
    • England
      • London
      • Newcastle-upon-Tyne
    • Europe
      • Albania
      • Austria
      • Bulgaria
      • Croatia
      • Estonia
      • Finland
      • France
        • Paris
      • Germany
      • Hungary
      • Iceland
      • Italy
        • Sardinia
        • Sicily
      • Jersey
      • Latvia
      • Montenegro
        • Malta
      • Norway
        • Svalbard
      • Portugal
      • Spain
        • Seville
      • Switzerland
      • Ukraine
    • Beyond
      • Africa
        • Botswana
        • Cape Verde
        • Gambia
        • Kenya
        • Madagascar
        • Morocco
        • Namibia
        • Senegal
        • Tanzania
        • Zimbabwe
      • Americas
        • Belize
        • Canada
        • Chile
          • Rapa Nui
        • Colombia
        • Costa Rica
        • Ecuador
          • Galapagos Islands
        • Guatemala
        • Jamaica
        • Mexico
        • USA
          • California
          • Chicago
          • Nevada
          • New Mexico
          • New York City
          • Washington State
      • Asia
        • DPRK
        • India
          • Kerala
          • Rajasthan
        • Japan
        • Indochina
          • Laos
          • Cambodia
          • Vietnam
        • Middle East
          • Oman
          • Qatar
          • United Arab Emirates
        • Nepal
        • Philippines
        • Sri Lanka
        • Syria
        • Uzbekistan
  • Themes
    • Architecture
      • City streets
    • 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
      • Seasons
    • People
      • Culture & tradition
      • Street photography
    • Travel in general
  • Photo galleries
    • Themed galleries
    • Travel galleries
  • Postcards from the road
  • Challenges
    • Photography challenges
      • Lens-Artists
      • CFFC
      • Flower Hour
      • Monochrome Madness
      • One Word Sunday
      • Photographing Public Art
      • Pick a Word
      • Squares
      • Sunday Stills
      • The Changing Seasons
    • General challenges
      • Bird place of the month
      • Happy Place Happy Space
      • Monday walks
      • Monthly Wrap Up
      • Weekend Coffee Share
  • Contact me
  • About me
    • ‘Always Write’ interview
    • My love of travel
    • My photography
      • Photographic techniques
      • My photography journey
      • Video
    • Disclaimer & GDPR
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africa animals architecture art birds black_&_white buildings california churches cities coast colombia colour dprk ealing england flowers france friendlyfriday Friendly_Friday history india landscape lens-artists Lens_Artists_Challenge london Monday_Walks monochrome Monochrome-Madness museum nepal north_korea paris people photography PPAC ruins sculpture Street_Art Street_Photography Sunday_Stills thechangingseasons usa views wildlife
  • Steep mountain catching the sun
    Landscape,  Lens-Artists,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: glowing moments around the world

    April 9, 2023 / 46 Comments

    When the sun is low in the sky we may feel its heat a little less, but we see it more clearly. The glow of early morning, or just before sunrise, adds warmth to our images. They absorb and reflect its light, taking on a glow of their own.

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  • African landscape with mysterious ball
    Lens-Artists,  Photographic techniques,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: it’s tricky!

    April 3, 2023 / 44 Comments

    If tricks are the practice of fools, where does that leave trick photography? The genre is nearly as old as photography itself. Did those early experimenters pave the way for today’s explosion of in-camera and post-editing trickery?

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  • Row of huts in front of a larger modern building
    Dark tourism,  DPRK,  Lens-Artists,  War

    Dreaming of reunification in North Korea

    March 26, 2023 / 36 Comments

    Travel is all about experiences. They may seem quite small at the time, like a chance but memorable encounter with a local person that changes your perspective on the world. Or they may seem huge, visiting an iconic world sight that you’ve dreamed about seeing for years. But whether large or small, long-planned for or serendipitous, the experiences of travel are, in my opinion, among the best to be found.

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  • Road through a mountain pass
    Lens-Artists,  My photography,  Photographic techniques,  Themed galleries,  Travel in general

    Gallery: the roads I take

    March 12, 2023 / 73 Comments

    It’s only eighteen months since Anne asked us to define our ‘photography groove’. My answer then was travel photography, and now that John asks much the same question about our favourite style or genre, the road we most often take, my answer remains the same.

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  • Balconies with Comuna 13 in large colourful letters
    Colombia,  History,  Lens-Artists,  Monday walks,  Photographing Public Art,  Street art,  Street photography

    Finding peace in Medellín

    March 6, 2023 / 59 Comments

    How do you find peace in a city rife with crime and violence? During the 1980s and most of the 1990s Medellín had the reputation of being one of the most violent cities in the world.

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  • Soft focus image of a dramatic flower
    Colombia,  Flowers,  Lens-Artists,  Photographic techniques,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: soft orchids from Colombia

    February 22, 2023 / 67 Comments

    While a flower is transient, our images capture the memory of it forever. Maybe that’s why so many of us love to photograph them.

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  • Rock with petroglyphs of animals
    History,  Lens-Artists

    Reading messages from the past

    January 29, 2023 / 64 Comments

    When I travel I am always curious about the people who inhabit the places I visit. I seek to understand their way of life and observe how it differs from, or is similar to, my own. But there are other people who populate my travels, the people who ONCE lived in these lands.

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  • Stone carving of a dragon on an old building in front of a modern one
    Lens-Artists,  London,  Monday walks

    A city stroll in London

    January 22, 2023 / 51 Comments

    The oft-quoted line, ‘when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life’ comes from a discussion between Johnson and James Boswell about whether or not Boswell's affection for London would wear thin should he be living there as Johnson did, rather than enjoying the city on occasional visits.

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  • Collage of seven different photos
    Lens-Artists,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: so which did you choose?

    January 18, 2023 / 24 Comments

    Photography, like all arts, is a subjective business. We all have our favourites. At times though it seems it’s almost as hard to judge other people’s work as it is our own. Nevertheless, we often do just that.

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  • Jumble of flat roofed buildings with distant castle and glimpse of sea
    Architecture,  History,  Lens-Artists,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: looking back at buildings

    January 15, 2023 / 61 Comments

    One of the (many) things I like to photograph when I travel are the various buildings I see. Buildings tell us so much about how people live, how they work, how they worship. Or, if they are old buildings, how they once lived/worked/worshipped.

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Some topics I’ve touched on

africa animals architecture art birds black_&_white buildings california churches cities coast colombia colour dprk ealing england flowers france friendlyfriday Friendly_Friday history india landscape lens-artists Lens_Artists_Challenge london Monday_Walks monochrome Monochrome-Madness museum nepal north_korea paris people photography PPAC ruins sculpture Street_Art Street_Photography Sunday_Stills thechangingseasons usa views wildlife

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