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  • 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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    • ‘Always Write’ interview
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  • Pick a Word,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: pick a word (January 2023)

    January 28, 2023 / 30 Comments
    A subway station platform seen through columns supporting the roof

    How do we define a ‘good word’? One that is appropriate for the situation? One that does good rather than harm? Or one that sounds good when we hear it spoken or read it aloud? Or perhaps all three?

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    Small round tower on a rocky islet

    Gallery: pick a word (August 2023)

    September 2, 2023
    Man with a beard in sunglasses, wearing a hat

    Gallery: pick a word (July)

    July 28, 2022
    Rocky outcrop in a green landscape with a stone wall running up the hill

    Gallery: pick a word (April 2023)

    May 1, 2023
  • Landscape,  Sunday Stills,  USA

    Road Trippin’ USA: a Brit’s perspective

    July 26, 2022 / 59 Comments
    Dark orange car in front of orange rocky landscape

    One of my favourite types of holiday is a road trip in the US. To someone from a small island, the huge empty spaces and relatively quiet roads there evoke a sense of freedom and opportunity. Anything could happen here; anything could be just around the next corner.

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    Ducks landing on a lake

    Summer in East Anglia

    August 10, 2022
    Snow scene with pine trees and mountain

    Gallery: a snowy walk in Paradise

    November 21, 2020
    Rock arch with rock stack

    Gallery: earth’s story told in its rocks

    March 27, 2022
  • Crafts,  New Mexico

    ‘While you were watching TV’

    May 20, 2022 / 28 Comments
    Sign saying Tinkertown

    On the slopes of Sandia Peak, above Albuquerque in New Mexico, we found a most unusual sight. As soon as I read about this quirky museum I knew that it was a ‘must see’. We both love those idiosyncratic places that seem to define a US road trip for us; and this is one of the best we have come across.

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    Tiles painted with a bull's head

    Gallery: Majolica, the ceramic tiles of Seville

    November 27, 2021
    Half-finished relief carving of people in ancient dress

    Works in progress around the world

    August 6, 2023
    Man's hands working with tin

    Using our hands: handicrafts around the world

    April 27, 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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    Close up of tan, green and white feathers

    Gallery: favourite detail photos of 2021

    January 6, 2022
    Two lions on a sandy river bank

    Gallery: taking a wider view in Botswana

    September 12, 2021
    Man walking past wall with mural

    Focus on the subject: Street photography

    November 2, 2020
  • Culture & tradition,  Landscape,  Monday walks,  New Mexico

    In the footsteps of the Anasazi: Tsankawi

    May 3, 2022 / 35 Comments
    Rock face with small caves and bushes

    One reason for our planning to spend several days in Santa Fe on our New Mexico road trip was to visit nearby Bandelier National Monument. I had read a lot about it and knew it was just the sort of place we would enjoy visiting. Then a few months before our visit a wildfire swept through the area, devastating over 146,000 acres, including about 60% of Bandelier’s area. Almost all of the monument was closed to visitors.

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    Street with low houses and woman carrying a basket

    Weird and wonderful: forbidden culture in Cuenca

    October 24, 2021
    Low stone houses on a hillside

    The Birdmen of Rapa Nui

    January 15, 2021

    A postcard from Nepal: Sadhus

    October 27, 2022
  • CBWC,  Photographic techniques,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: of vintage wheels and shiny steel

    April 22, 2022 / 34 Comments
    Sepia photo of motorbike riders by a cliff

    While I have little interest in cars or motorbikes for themselves, I do find them interesting photographically speaking. And especially so old cars and shiny bikes!

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    Sculpture of a dachshund dog by the water's edge

    Gallery: seeing Norway in black and white

    June 23, 2023
    Looking down at a curved spiral staircase

    Gallery: staring up at the steps

    May 19, 2023
    Black and white photo of a sculpture of horses and a woman in classical robes

    Gallery: centred in monochrome

    July 10, 2022
  • Architecture,  History,  Monday walks,  New Mexico

    A stroll around Las Vegas

    October 19, 2021 / 36 Comments
    Row of old shops and cafes

    No, not THAT one! Did you know that there’s another Las Vegas, in New Mexico? But unlike its more famous glitzy namesake this one is an appealing mix of slightly down-at-heel with trying-hard-to-revive itself.

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    Ceramic tiles with blue border and brown lion and castle

    A visit to the Real Alcázar of Seville

    December 29, 2021
    Series of ornate arches with trees beyond

    Gallery: looking out from the shadows

    May 7, 2022
    View of New York City

    On the Top of the Rock – twice!

    November 13, 2020
  • History,  Landscape,  Lens-Artists,  New Mexico

    Our Land of Enchantment: the scenic byways of New Mexico

    July 25, 2021 / 27 Comments
    Scruffy looking shop in wood

    New Mexico dubs itself the ‘Land of Enchantment’ and indeed we were enchanted. What delighted us most was the variety. In two and a half weeks we saw natural wonders and man-made. We followed trails worn down over the centuries by the moccasin-clad feet of early inhabitants; and sat in the cramped confines of a Mercury capsule. We marvelled at the legends of those early Native Americans, and at the tales of aliens crashing near Roswell.

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    Lamp post shaped like alien head

    The truth is out there: the Roswell Incident

    March 11, 2021
    A large 1960s style home

    The legacy of Enver Hoxha

    May 13, 2023
    Mosaic of Kim Il Sung and family in the snow

    Where the Kims of North Korea were born – or were they?

    May 6, 2021
  • Food & drink,  History,  New Mexico

    A pit stop in pioneering Pie Town

    June 24, 2021 / 18 Comments
    Sign saying Pie Town

    When I saw Pie Town on the map I knew we had to go there! Any town named after food has to be worth a visit, yes? And while getting to Pie Town involves a long drive across the empty plains of western New Mexico, for us the effort was well rewarded.

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    Man frying insects at a food stall

    Exploring the street food of Phnom Penh

    April 3, 2021
    Rows of apple trees and distant mountains

    Apple farming in North Korea

    August 10, 2023
    Dark table with lots of small dishes

    Gallery: Dining in (Japanese) style ~ kaiseki

    March 6, 2021
  • Friendly Friday,  History,  New Mexico

    Getting our kicks in Santa Rosa, NM

    June 15, 2021 / 19 Comments
    Brightly painted yellow car raised on a platform

    As we approached Santa Rosa on Interstate 40 the heavens opened and for about ten minutes we drove through a downpour so heavy that it was almost impossible to see the road or any other vehicle on it – scary stuff. Maybe the elements were finding a way to punish the road that almost destroyed one of the most iconic of all American cultural icons, Route 66.

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    Rear of white car

    California dreaming: our first US road trip

    May 23, 2021
    Label for rule of thirds challenge

    Friendly Friday Challenge: the rule of thirds

    January 28, 2022
    Aerial view of green swampland with river channels

    Video: flying to the Okavango Delta

    February 27, 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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