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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
        • 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
      • 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 Doors
      • Thursday Trios
  • About me
    • Contact me
    • ‘Always Write’ interview
    • My love of travel
    • My photography
      • Photographic techniques
      • My photography journey
      • Video
    • Disclaimer & GDPR
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  • Colour,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: a pop of colour to brighten the darkness

    January 20, 2023 / 45 Comments
    Colourful mural advertising Red Stripe beer

    'With colour one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft' (Henri Matisse). Bright colours have the power to lift the spirits just as sunshine does.

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    Bright red berries

    Gallery: the colours of the season

    December 16, 2021
    Turquoise sea with light and shaded areas

    Gallery: expressions of a single colour

    April 17, 2022
    Yellow sunset with mountains and trees

    Gallery: yellow big and yellow small

    June 6, 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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    Zebra with others behind

    Gallery: do opposites really attract?

    September 18, 2022
    Balloon over a desert landscape

    Reaching for the sky again in Africa

    April 18, 2021
    Simple shop in a wooden shack and toddler in the scruffy lane alongside

    Learning through travelling

    January 30, 2022
  • 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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    Bee on a yellow flower

    Gallery: it’s all in the details

    May 2, 2021
    Collage of seven different photos

    Gallery: so which did you choose?

    January 18, 2023
    Black and white photo of umbrella-shaped seed heads

    Gallery: nature by design

    November 14, 2021
  • Lens-Artists,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: last chance to see (or possibly not!)

    December 18, 2022 / 46 Comments
    Reflection of setting sun on a river

    Tina’s proposal that for the last Lens Artists challenge of the year we share some shots taken in 2022 but not yet shared for any of the challenges sounds a simple ask. But I decided to make it harder for myself by searching out some favourite images not yet shared in any post.

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    Lobster pots, small boats and a distant castle on a hill

    Gallery: an ode to beautiful Northumberland (shhh!)

    November 28, 2022
    Shadow of lady with crutches

    Keep walking … even on crutches!

    August 29, 2021
    Black and white photo of umbrella-shaped seed heads

    Gallery: nature by design

    November 14, 2021
  • Colour,  Sunday Stills,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: feeling the blues, again

    December 16, 2022 / 39 Comments
    Round blue ceramic roof tile with a dragon image

    Some time ago I shared some favourite ‘blue’ images, accompanied by a quote from a favourite Blue song. But the world has an inexhaustible supply of shades of blue. So I’ve trawled through the photos from recent trips, and some older ones, to see what blues I could find that haven’t been shared before.

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    Sign mimicking an artist's palette

    Gallery: all the colours of the kaleidoscope

    December 10, 2021
    Pink flowers half-silhouetted against a pink sky

    Gallery: looking on the pink side

    October 18, 2021
    Colourful mural advertising Red Stripe beer

    Gallery: a pop of colour to brighten the darkness

    January 20, 2023
  • Lens-Artists,  Photographic techniques,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: perfect patterns around the world

    December 12, 2022 / 40 Comments
    Beams of wood painted in bright colours

    It could be argued that every photograph is a pattern. A flat two-dimensional representation of a scene broken down into shapes, and each shape into pixels. The technology in our cameras stitches the pixels together to reproduce the scene, while we as photographers choose and compose that scene.

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    Giraffe eating

    Giraffe Manor: getting up close and personal

    January 11, 2021
    Modern white building with moat

    Gallery: cool architecture, cool colours

    May 24, 2021
    Looking down a spiral staircase

    Gallery: the perfect simplicity of a spiral staircase

    October 10, 2021
  • Lens-Artists,  Nepal,  Photographic techniques,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: Nepal on the diagonal

    December 5, 2022 / 50 Comments
    Hill with tower in front of high snow-covered mountains

    The presence of diagonals in an image creates a sense of movement. Our eyes naturally follow the line to see where it leads. Often diagonals are used to create leading lines, taking the viewer on a journey through an image to a specific point you want to highlight.

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    Black and white photo of tree and rocks

    Gallery: less is more (minimalism in photography)

    June 6, 2022
    Golden temple reflected in a lake

    Exploring the temple gardens of Kyoto

    May 9, 2021
    Mountain scene with caption

    My love of travel: some special moments

    March 14, 2021
  • Lens-Artists,  Photographic techniques,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: three ways of seeing

    October 9, 2022 / 44 Comments
    Three different versions of a waterlily photo

    Often I observe some with a phone or camera taking a single photo of a sight and moving on, in a hurry to reach the next. In the pre-digital days when every picture taken meant a hit to your wallet, that made some sense. Today it strikes me as strange, but then I am rarely happy with my first shot of anything!

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    Red lantern, blue wall, green shutters

    2020: my (pandemic) year in review

    January 3, 2021
    Manipulated photo of cornflowers and moon

    Gallery: playing around with effects from Enlight

    November 29, 2020
    Water reflecting the sky with clouds and low sun

    The sun will come out tomorrow (and I will photograph it)

    November 9, 2020
  • Sunday Stills,  Themed galleries,  Travel in general

    Gallery: should I stay or should I go?

    September 7, 2022 / 75 Comments
    Collage of eight small photos

    One thing I learned during the pandemic was that it is possible to have a good time holidaying in my own country. With travel abroad impossible we turned to UK options and managed to have several lovely short trips in the spaces between lockdowns. And of course like everyone, we explored our immediate area more thoroughly than in the past, seeking out places we’d never previously visited or finding new surprises in old haunts.

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    Coloured glass bottles in a collage

    Gallery: through a glass darkly

    October 25, 2022
    Old boat and rail track on a shingle beach

    Gallery: at the edge of England

    November 11, 2020
    Black beach with distant cliffs with a rock arch

    The black lava beach of Reynisfjara

    October 12, 2022
  • Architecture,  Friendly Friday,  Landscape,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: meet me on the corner

    September 2, 2022 / 28 Comments
    Black and white photo of street signs

    There is something about the idea of a corner. Who knows what might be around it? Whether on a city street or a quiet country lane, there is a sense of anticipation about what might be revealed.

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    Several bridges over a river

    Newcastle: a city and its river

    February 18, 2021
    Ornate painted ceiling

    Gallery: ceilings and floors (and pavements and more)

    September 7, 2021
    Small boats on a river with grassy banks and old buildings

    A sunny day out in Cambridge, part one

    July 19, 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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