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  • Home
  • Destinations
    • England
      • London
      • Newcastle-upon-Tyne
    • Europe
      • Albania
      • 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
      • Life in Colour
      • Mid-week Monochrome
      • One-to-Three
      • Ten photos
      • Thursday Trios
      • Thursday Doors
  • About me
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  • Pick a Word,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: pick a word (June 2023)

    June 24, 2023 / 46 Comments
    View of rocky islet framed by leaves

    I like to caption my photos; I like to illustrate my words. But when it comes to Paula’s monthly Pick a Word, my task is to illustrate her words. She assures me that I ‘don’t have to do all of them, one is enough’. But I always like a challenge so feel compelled to try!

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    Black and white photo of tiny fungi growing out of lichen

    Gallery: pick a word (September)

    October 6, 2022
    Rocky outcrop in a green landscape with a stone wall running up the hill

    Gallery: pick a word (April 2023)

    May 1, 2023
    Man with a beard in sunglasses, wearing a hat

    Gallery: pick a word (July)

    July 28, 2022
  • Nature and wildlife,  Nature Photo Challenge,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: dragonflies draw flame

    April 28, 2023 / 47 Comments
    Two pairs of slender damselflies linked together on reeds

    While I love to see dragonflies and damselflies I often confuse one with the other. But I hope I have captioned my selection of these delicate insects properly!

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    Yellow dahlia with raindrops on the petals

    Gallery: favourite nature and landscape photos of 2021

    January 1, 2022
    Orange butterfly on a cloth by apples

    Gallery: the wings of the butterfly

    May 18, 2023
    Looking up at a spiral staircase

    Gallery: monochrome curves

    March 20, 2022
  • Architecture,  History,  Monday walks,  Nepal

    A walk in Patan, the City of Beauty

    February 1, 2023 / 43 Comments
    View over group of brick temples with tiered tiled roofs

    Patan is said to be one of the oldest Buddhist cities in the world. It is also known as Lalitpur, which means the City of Beauty. The name recognises its tradition of arts and crafts which continue to define the city.

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    Imposing stone cathedral facade with towers

    The northernmost Gothic cathedral in the world

    June 14, 2023
    Mountain road with car on verge

    Following the High Road to Taos

    February 14, 2021
    Sign on boarded-up window

    Gallery: London, off the beaten track (urban erosion)

    January 17, 2021
  • Architecture,  Nepal,  One Word Sunday,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: the doors of Nepal

    January 23, 2023 / 66 Comments
    Blue and green wooden doors

    Whether ancient and beautiful, old and battered, or newer and colourful, there was something about the doors in Nepal that charmed me. And yes, some could have come straight out of a fairy tale perhaps.

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    Looking up at a white stone church with several domes

    Le Sacré Coeur de Paris

    April 10, 2022
    Two white bell towers

    A stroll around Tavira

    April 29, 2022
    Blue tiles with religious painting

    Gallery: tiles, tiles and yet more tiles!

    April 30, 2022
  • 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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    African landscape with mysterious ball

    Gallery: it’s tricky!

    April 3, 2023
    Man tossing insects in a frying pan

    Breaking boundaries while travelling

    July 25, 2023
    Street with low houses and woman carrying a basket

    Weird and wonderful: forbidden culture in Cuenca

    October 24, 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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    Modern buildings and cathedral dome in dull weather

    Gallery: favourite city life photos of 2021

    January 2, 2022
    Group of of people climbing steps, one looking back

    Gallery: faces in the crowd

    August 22, 2023
    Shadow of worn metal handrail on a wall

    Gallery: chasing shadows

    June 13, 2021
  • Culture & tradition,  Nepal,  Photographing Public Art

    Lord Shiva statue in the hills above Pokhara

    January 7, 2023 / 24 Comments
    Huge blue statue of seated figure

    A new sight has recently appeared in the hills above Pokhara. A huge statue of Lord Shiva, the second largest in Nepal, sits serenely looking out over the foothills. And at his back are the mighty Himalayas.

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    Looking down at a station platform

    Taking a ride on the Pyongyang Metro

    July 10, 2021
    Street with low houses and woman carrying a basket

    Weird and wonderful: forbidden culture in Cuenca

    October 24, 2021
    Two images of narrow city streets

    A walk in Seville’s picturesque Triana district

    December 2, 2021
  • CMMC,  Flowers,  Nature and wildlife,  Nepal,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: looking closely at Nepal

    January 6, 2023 / 51 Comments
    Dark red flower

    I would never claim to be the only person to have noticed the things I photograph. But I do believe I often photograph things that not EVERYONE has noticed, or thought to photograph. When I travel I of course photograph the famous sights, the landscapes, the architecture. But I also like to capture small details that, while perhaps not unique to the country, are part of my personal memories of it.

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    Small bird hovering by purple flowers

    Gallery: searching for M and M

    July 29, 2023
    Blue and turquoise mosaic

    Gallery: feeling the blues

    November 11, 2021
    White wall with a painting of the god Ganesh and a blue door

    Gallery: intriguingly incomparable India

    May 25, 2023
  • Sunday Stills,  Travel in general,  Writers' Quotes Wednesday

    My travel year in review, 2022

    January 2, 2023 / 70 Comments
    Collage of travel photos

    All of us who love to travel, and are fortunate enough to be able to do so, will I hope be looking back on a year filled with both familiar and foreign places. For most of us, 2022 was the year in which we began to feel comfortable travelling again. When, despite a few new forms to fill in and masks to be worn, perhaps reluctantly, on planes, the world opened up again and we could scratch that travel itch, relieve that homesickness ‘for the places we have never known’.

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    Detail of ornate tiled frieze

    Finding geometry in the buildings of Marrakesh

    July 27, 2021
    Straight road and brown sign in English and Arabic

    Rub’ Al Khali: the Empty Quarter

    August 16, 2021
    Man surfing in rocky sea at sunset

    Gallery: taking the plunge

    January 10, 2023
  • Pick a Word,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: pick a word (December)

    December 30, 2022 / 27 Comments
    Black and white photo of a statue of two figures, one with a gun

    One of my favourite poems, by one of my favourite poets, is about words. Some may say that’s not so surprising, when I like to use so many of them! And now again I am facing the task posed by Paula in her monthly Pick a Word challenge. Five words, five photos inspired by those words.

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    Monkey looking down from a branch

    Gallery: pick a word (March 2023)

    March 18, 2023
    Man with a beard in sunglasses, wearing a hat

    Gallery: pick a word (July)

    July 28, 2022
    A subway station platform seen through columns supporting the roof

    Gallery: pick a word (January 2023)

    January 28, 2023
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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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