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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
    • Contact me
    • ‘Always Write’ interview
    • My love of travel
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      • Photographic techniques
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  • Pick a Word,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: pick a word (July 2023)

    July 28, 2023 / 30 Comments
    Black and white photo of a tree in a park

    The writer, the painter and the photographer have the power to ‘shake up a familiar scene’. Through their eyes we often discover something anew even though we may have seen a similar scene many times before.

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    Black and white photo of tiny fungi growing out of lichen

    Gallery: pick a word (September)

    October 6, 2022
    Black and white shot of a hill with terraces and bushes

    Gallery: pick a word (November)

    November 26, 2022
    Black and white photo of a lady smoking a cigar

    Gallery: pick a word (August)

    August 30, 2022
  • Coast & seascapes,  Mountains,  Norway

    Bleak landscapes of Kvaløya Island

    July 7, 2023 / 54 Comments
    Lichen-covered shore and inlet of water with snowy mountains

    Why do people choose to settle in some places and leave others almost deserted? The reasons are many, but natural resources play a big part, and so does climate of course.

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    Roof line of yellow beach hut with yacht and seagull ornaments

    Gallery: exploring beaches, near and far

    July 7, 2022
    Woman on grassy cliff looking out at passing ships

    Gallery: I must go down to the seas again

    June 10, 2022
    Abstract view of sparkling blue water

    Gallery: water, water everywhere …

    February 20, 2022
  • Flowers,  London,  The Changing Seasons,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: a June selection (2023)

    June 30, 2023 / 57 Comments
    Several large heads of purple hydrangeas

    For me this past June has been one of more than usually changeable weather. I started the month inside the Arctic Circle where in the first few days of meteorological summer the temperature didn’t rise above six or seven degrees Celsius and was often colder than that. I then returned to a London going into its first heatwave of the summer, hitting thirty degrees on a couple of days. Towards the end of the month the temperature dropped to the more usual, and comfortable, low to mid-twenties.

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    White flowers with dark purple centre patches

    Gallery: a July selection

    August 2, 2022
    Dark pink flower head

    Gallery: in the garden, Costa Rican style

    March 12, 2022
    Small purple blossoms

    Gallery: a bouquet of purple flowers

    August 11, 2021
  • Monday walks,  Norway,  Photographing Public Art,  Street art

    History and street art in Tromsø

    June 27, 2023 / 53 Comments
    Large mural showing a face peering over a graffiti wall

    Tromsø is in many ways a surprising city, and full of extremes. Located well inside the Arctic Circle it experiences both Midnight Sun (in summer) and Polar Night (in winter). It can boast the world's northernmost university, its northernmost botanical garden, northernmost cathedral – and northernmost brewery!

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    Large square with historic buildings and tourists

    In ancient Bhaktapur, a royal capital

    November 24, 2022
    Balconies with Comuna 13 in large colourful letters

    Finding peace in Medellín

    March 6, 2023
    Colourful buildings reflected in a river

    A summer evening stroll in Trondheim

    June 12, 2023
  • 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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    Man with a beard in sunglasses, wearing a hat

    Gallery: pick a word (July)

    July 28, 2022
    Black and white photo of a tree in a park

    Gallery: pick a word (July 2023)

    July 28, 2023
    Black and white photo of a lady smoking a cigar

    Gallery: pick a word (August)

    August 30, 2022
  • CBWC,  Monochrome Madness,  Norway,  Photographic techniques,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: seeing Norway in black and white

    June 23, 2023 / 38 Comments
    Sculpture of a dachshund dog by the water's edge

    Welcome to the ‘strange’ world of northern Norway, where June feels more like January in London and where the photographic rewards are great if you’re happy to brave the chilly fingers needed to press the shutter!

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    Sepia photo of motorbike riders by a cliff

    Gallery: of vintage wheels and shiny steel

    April 22, 2022
    Child playing on an otherwise empty beach

    Gallery: seeing the English coast in black and white

    August 24, 2023
    Black and white photo of man with rickshaw

    Gallery: people at work in Kerala and Rajasthan

    August 5, 2021
  • Monday walks,  Norway,  Photographing Public Art

    A brief break in Bodø

    June 19, 2023 / 49 Comments
    Mural with mix of photos of people and painted background

    The Hurtigruten line is first and foremost a postal service and ferry, although it caters well to tourists too with a cruise-like offering of quality food, excursions and on-board lectures. Many of the stops the ships make are brief, typically twenty minutes. Supplies for these small coastal towns and villages are off-loaded, post and parcels collected. A few passengers embark or disembark. Most are locals, visiting family or returning home after time away. Only a handful will be tourists, hikers perhaps.

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    Black and white photo of two women with umbrellas tinted pink

    Sofia, city of contrasts and a work in progress

    October 5, 2022
    Large cobbled square surrounded by low whitewashed buildings

    A stroll around Villa de Leyva

    February 27, 2023
    White statue of a saint against a blue sky

    Sweet freedoms in Tirana

    May 8, 2023
  • Architecture,  Lens-Artists,  Norway

    A tale of two cathedrals

    June 18, 2023 / 38 Comments
    Simple candlestick with slim coloured candles

    The most famous sight in Tromsø is probably the Arctic Cathedral … except it isn’t actually a cathedral. Despite the popular name, this is a parish church, but a very substantial and eye-catching one.

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    Closed sign on a shop door

    Gallery: when one door closes …

    June 20, 2022
    Black and white photo of white building

    Gallery: seeking geometry in architecture

    March 28, 2021
    Mountain road with car on verge

    Following the High Road to Taos

    February 14, 2021
  • Coast & seascapes,  Monochrome Madness,  Norway,  Photographic techniques,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: seeing the Norwegian landscape in black and white

    June 15, 2023 / 34 Comments
    Sea with jetty and hut, distant mountains, gulls

    Much of the Norwegian landscape looked a little unreal to me even in its natural colours. The drama of its mountains, the almost eerie light around midnight, even the snow and rain. All these lent it a magical air.

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    Rocky foreshore and distant cliffs

    Gallery: not just any day!

    November 1, 2021
    Child playing on an otherwise empty beach

    Gallery: seeing the English coast in black and white

    August 24, 2023
    Dramatic mountain landscape

    Gallery: Mountain, Desert, Jungle or Ocean?

    June 28, 2021
  • Architecture,  Norway

    The northernmost Gothic cathedral in the world

    June 14, 2023 / 33 Comments
    Imposing stone cathedral facade with towers

    Trondheim’s Nidaros Cathedral is the world’s northernmost Gothic cathedral. It was built over the tomb of King Olav II (reigned 1015–1028), the Viking king who converted Norway to Christianity. He reigned from 1015 to 1028 and later became the country’s patron saint. It is here that Norwegian kings are crowned, not in the capital Oslo.

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    Detail of ornate tiled frieze

    Finding geometry in the buildings of Marrakesh

    July 27, 2021
    Man having his shoes shined

    Exploring the sights of downtown Medellín

    April 4, 2023
    Three photos in a black frame showing an oriental palace and some details

    Buildings three ways (three of a kind)

    May 29, 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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