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    • Colour
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  • Culture & tradition,  Morocco,  Sunday Stills

    Day into night in the Jemaa el-Fnaa

    December 20, 2021 / 22 Comments
    View from above of large square with market stalls

    Sooner or later it seems, all paths in Marrakesh lead to the Jemaa el-Fnaa. The name (sometimes spelled Djemaa el Fna or Jamaa el Fna) means ‘Assembly of the Dead’ in Arabic; but a visit here suggests life in all its vibrancy. To call this the city’s main square doesn’t begin to do justice to it. This is a meeting place, a shopping centre, a performance space, a happening. It is surrounded by restaurants and cafés, each with a roof terrace to offer a ringside seat from where to observe…

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    Faded photo of a large statue and old apartments behind

    Where Lenin once pointed the way to …?

    February 5, 2021
    Looking down at a station platform

    Taking a ride on the Pyongyang Metro

    July 10, 2021
    Golden temple reflected in a lake

    Exploring the temple gardens of Kyoto

    May 9, 2021
  • Lens-Artists,  Morocco,  Street photography

    Keep walking … even on crutches!

    August 29, 2021 / 36 Comments
    Shadow of lady with crutches

    We were just twenty-four hours into our first visit to Marrakesh. We had arrived in the city with high expectations. It had been on our wish-list for some years; and as this was the first holiday of any length that we had been able to take together for over a year, we were determined to enjoy it. But on the evening of our first day I stumbled on the edge of a tiled basin in a fancy restaurant and broke a bone in my foot. I spent the rest of…

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    Factory gates with propaganda signs and various buildings

    Some short stories from the Hermit Kingdom

    November 28, 2021
    Black and white photo of a church with a park in front

    Gallery: seeing Shrewsbury in black and white

    July 11, 2021
    Large statues of North Korean Leaders with visiting locals

    Gallery: statues of the Great Leaders

    February 20, 2021
  • Architecture,  Morocco,  Ruins

    ‘Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!’

    August 12, 2021 / 26 Comments
    Red crumbling ruins

    The crumbling red stone ruins of the Kasbah of Telouet hide a secret; within their walls lie the remains of a glorious and self-indulgent palace, where Pasha Thami El Glaoui asserted his power and wealth. These atmospheric ruins are relatively off the tourist trail, although easily visited on a day trip from Marrakesh.

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    Ornate door and building

    Gallery: the doors of Tallinn

    October 24, 2020
    Large wooden curved structure

    Gallery: Seville’s mushrooms, art or architecture?

    December 4, 2021
    Sepia photo of Buzludzha Monument

    Buzludzha Monument

    September 4, 2020
  • Architecture,  Morocco,  Sunday Stills,  Travel galleries

    Finding geometry in the buildings of Marrakesh

    July 27, 2021 / 27 Comments
    Detail of ornate tiled frieze

    Some of the most beautiful architecture I have seen has been in the Islamic world. Islamic art shuns the depiction of living figures, whether human or animal, partly to avoid any suggestion of idolatry and partly because it is believed that the creation of living forms is Allah’s prerogative. Instead the emphasis is on geometric forms as well as calligraphy and abstract floral motifs.

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    Black and white photo of adobe church

    Gallery: San Francisco de Asis, Ranchos de Taos

    January 8, 2021
    Large building with green oriental roof

    A look inside the Grand People’s Study House

    November 18, 2021
    View of New York City

    On the Top of the Rock – twice!

    November 13, 2020
  • Deserts,  Lens-Artists,  Morocco

    Reaching for the sky again in Africa

    April 18, 2021 / 27 Comments
    Balloon over a desert landscape

    Once you have been in a hot air balloon, and loved the experience as I did, you will seize any opportunity to fly again. Leonardo da Vinci had it right, even though he himself had never flown, when he said, 'Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.'

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    Green pool and palm trees from above

    Water in the desert: Wadi Bani Khalid

    June 11, 2021
    Road through mountains with snow and pine trees

    Gallery: on the road to the future?

    January 10, 2022
    Small squat tree in a dry stony landscape

    Dhofar, the Land of Frankincense

    May 11, 2022
  • Friendly Friday,  Photographic techniques

    Smoke and mirrors

    October 25, 2020 / 25 Comments
    Edited image of Ankor Wat, with reflection added

    Some say the camera never lies. But does it? Even before technology made it possible to alter reality, photographers were playing around with tricks and illusions. Today it is easier than ever to edit an image; to fool the viewer into seeing something that was never there, or not seeing something that was.

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    Friendly Friday Challenge: framing your subject

    March 25, 2022
    Banner heading with photo of African man

    Friendly Friday: meet Cheikh, a guide in Senegal

    July 16, 2021
    Close-up of head sculpted in bronze

    Purple Haze: remembering Jimi Hendrix

    July 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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