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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
        • Colombia
        • 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
      • Nature Photo Challenge
      • 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 Trios
      • Thursday Doors
  • About me
    • Contact me
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  • London,  Newcastle-upon-Tyne,  The Changing Seasons,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: a January selection (2023)

    February 2, 2023 / 40 Comments
    Bare tree and water with stone pier and small lighthouse

    Thankfully this January didn’t bring snow to London, but it was certainly more than cold enough to make any feet and fingers glow! Personally I can’t wait for the warmer days of spring, although we’re not hanging around here for that but are headed elsewhere in a hunt for heat!

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    Red Metro sign against a backdrop of leaves

    Gallery: a September selection

    October 3, 2022
    Bronze sculpture of two young elephants

    A little bit of Nairobi in London’s Spitalfields

    January 22, 2022
    Mural of girl's face with birds for hair

    Gallery: a street art walk in Shoreditch

    November 6, 2021
  • Lens-Artists,  London,  Monday walks

    A city stroll in London

    January 22, 2023 / 51 Comments
    Stone carving of a dragon on an old building in front of a modern one

    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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    Yellow sunset with mountains and trees

    Gallery: yellow big and yellow small

    June 6, 2021
    River with small white boat moored

    Found in the neighbourhood: some lockdown discoveries

    November 16, 2020

    Seen better days: the ruined villages of Oman

    October 2, 2021
  • Lens-Artists,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: so which did you choose?

    January 18, 2023 / 24 Comments
    Collage of seven different photos

    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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    Blue flowers with a blurred green backdrop

    Gallery: playing with bokeh

    April 13, 2022
    Narrow path between flower beds

    Gallery: some favourite English flowers

    October 17, 2022
    River with small boats and rocky cliff

    A day on the Nam Ou

    July 3, 2021
  • Lens-Artists,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: you choose (I can’t!)

    January 9, 2023 / 78 Comments
    Collage of seven photos

    How good are you at self-criticism when it comes to photography? Are you ruthless about discarding less successful shots? And can you easily decide which of several is your best?

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    Large Star Wars Storm Trooper figures wearing masks

    Gallery: finding interest in the everyday

    January 16, 2022
    Closed sign on a shop door

    Gallery: when one door closes …

    June 20, 2022
    Cheetah head and shoulders

    With the beautiful Africat cheetahs in Namibia

    May 16, 2021
  • London,  Newcastle-upon-Tyne,  The Changing Seasons,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: a December selection

    January 1, 2023 / 56 Comments
    Gold bauble on a frosted artificial tree

    December in London this year has delivered frost, a touch of snow, but also mild and damp weather; a little bit of everything. Of course it has also brought Christmas lights and decorations.

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    River view with modern city buildings

    Gallery: city living in London

    February 15, 2021
    Large red bird with white face and beak

    Gallery: a February selection

    March 1, 2022
    Two pelicans swimming with daisies beyond

    Gallery: the birds of St James’s Park

    July 13, 2021
  • History,  London,  Sunday Stills

    Ealing, the Queen of the Suburbs?

    December 10, 2022 / 35 Comments
    Large stone building with towers and arched windows

    In 1902 Charles Jones, Ealing’s borough surveyor, published a book. In it he referred to Ealing as the ‘Queen of Suburbs’. His aim of course was to promote the area as a place to live.

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    Mountain road with car on verge

    Following the High Road to Taos

    February 14, 2021
    Stone statue of man in an overcoat

    A visit to Sofia’s Socialist Art Museum

    October 10, 2022
    Page from old photo album

    Travelling in the 1930s: a flea market find

    February 13, 2021
  • London,  Nepal,  The Changing Seasons,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: a November (and October) selection

    December 1, 2022 / 39 Comments
    Purple flower against a bright green backdrop

    We often choose to go away at this time of year and this year was no exception. At the end of October and through the first part of this month we were travelling in Nepal.

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    Large glass conservatory with lawns and flower beds

    In for a penny: a visit to Kew Gardens

    August 24, 2021
    Deep pink blossom

    Gallery: an April selection

    May 1, 2022
    Large illuminated reindeer model

    Celebrating Christmas in London and (a little way) beyond

    December 6, 2021
  • Bulgaria,  London,  Paris,  The Changing Seasons,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: a September selection

    October 3, 2022 / 25 Comments
    Red Metro sign against a backdrop of leaves

    There is a theme emerging in these monthly round-ups, a theme of bookends! I’ve already pointed out that while July was bookended by happy gatherings of family and friends, August was similarly bookended with funerals. And now we come to September and we are back to happier bookends: city breaks.

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    Black and white photo of sculptures of two women, one a soldier

    The Monument to the Soviet Army in Sofia

    October 22, 2022
    Exterior of brick mosque with dome and minaret

    The Square of Religious Tolerance in Sofia

    April 6, 2021
    Wall painting of a sleeping purple cat

    Gallery: more street art from Sofia

    October 8, 2022
  • History,  London,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: a farewell to a monarch

    September 16, 2022 / 59 Comments
    Large palace with lots of people and flower bads

    You must have been living on Mars, or as a hermit, not to have heard that Queen Elizabeth II passed away last week. Here in the UK we are in a period of official mourning such as most of us have never experienced. Whether you are a fervent monarchist, staunch republican or (like me) somewhere on a scale between those two extremes, it’s hard not to be fascinated by the sense of history that surrounds us right now.

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    Large stone building with towers and arched windows

    Ealing, the Queen of the Suburbs?

    December 10, 2022
    Exterior of brick mosque with dome and minaret

    The Square of Religious Tolerance in Sofia

    April 6, 2021
    Log cabin with sign 'Shoes, Boots, Saddles'

    Old Mission, one man’s dream

    November 10, 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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    Black and white photo of a church with a park in front

    Gallery: seeing Shrewsbury in black and white

    July 11, 2021
    Ducks landing on a lake

    Summer in East Anglia

    August 10, 2022
    Stone circle in a landscape with blue sky and white clouds

    A visit to Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain

    June 21, 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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