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      • Spain
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      • Ukraine
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        • Botswana
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        • 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
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    • Nature and wildlife
      • Animals
      • Birds
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        • Flowers
        • Trees, forests and woodland
    • People
      • Culture & tradition
      • Street photography
    • Travel in general
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  • Challenges
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      • 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
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      • Happy Place Happy Space
      • Monday walks
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      • Writers’ Quotes Wednesday
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  • Dark tourism,  DPRK,  Photographing Public Art

    The Monument to Party Foundation

    July 22, 2023 / 33 Comments
    Three concrete sculptures against the sun

    Three enormous fists reach skywards, dominating the cityscape at the end of a long grassy avenue. Linked by a massive concrete belt they loom over visitors and passers-by. However this monument makes a statement not just through its grand scale but also the details of its design. This is a story told in numbers and in symbols.

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    A large 1960s style home

    The legacy of Enver Hoxha

    May 13, 2023
    Empty airport seating area

    Gallery: Wonsan Kalma International Airport sits deserted

    May 7, 2021
    Relief carvings of battle scenes

    So who did start the Korean War?

    September 15, 2020
  • London,  Monday walks,  Photographing Public Art,  Street art

    A London walk with a blogging friend

    July 3, 2023 / 44 Comments
    Street art painting

    Yes, London can be different things to different people, and different parts of London can be different to each other. Contrast Mayfair with Camden Market, or Soho with the South Bank. As a Londoner I have lots of favourite areas of course, and love to visit all of them. But I always enjoy a walk in London’s Spitalfields and Brick Lane areas, and even better when I can introduce a friend to this lively area.

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    Mural of girl's face with birds for hair

    Gallery: a street art walk in Shoreditch

    November 6, 2021
    Lake with blue sky and distant buildings

    Gallery: a March selection

    April 1, 2022
    Large glass conservatory with lawns and flower beds

    In for a penny: a visit to Kew Gardens

    August 24, 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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    Panoramic cityscape

    A sunny Sunday walk in Belleville

    September 28, 2021
    Street art painting

    A London walk with a blogging friend

    July 3, 2023
    Large building with turrets and ornamental details

    More Cambridge colleges and other sights

    August 1, 2022
  • 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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    Old brick houses with men in an entrance talking

    Gallery: the old town of Dhulikhel

    November 29, 2022
    Hazy view of bamboo clump

    Periyar’s monkeys, elephants, bison and more

    October 4, 2021
    Large building with turrets and ornamental details

    More Cambridge colleges and other sights

    August 1, 2022
  • Albania,  Lens-Artists,  Photographing Public Art,  Street art,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: boxing clever in Tirana

    May 14, 2023 / 38 Comments
    Two boys cycling past a utility box painted with a figure from South Park

    Opinion is divided on street art / graffiti. Some consider it vandalism, others (including me) enjoy the way it brightens a city. Great street art can be beautiful; it can make you think; it can transform a district. So of course I was on the lookout for street art in Tirana, as I am everywhere I go.

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    House in a garden with concrete path

    A postcard from Tirana: Enver Hoxha’s former residence

    April 22, 2023
    White statue of a saint against a blue sky

    Sweet freedoms in Tirana

    May 8, 2023
    Men at small tables, with drinks

    Gallery: the people of Tirana in black and white

    April 26, 2023
  • Colombia,  Colour,  Culture & tradition,  Photographing Public Art,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: Guatapé, town of the zócalos

    April 11, 2023 / 29 Comments
    Cobbled street of colourful houses

    Just as humans (sadly) use knives and swords for attack and defence, so too do animals and plants. Whether it’s a thorn or spike to ward off predators, or a sharp tooth to attack their prey, there is always a point to sharpness in nature.

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    Water with a small boat moored and surrounding palm trees

    Beach walks on the Caribbean coast of Colombia

    May 16, 2023
    Balconies with Comuna 13 in large colourful letters

    Finding peace in Medellín

    March 6, 2023
    Colourfully dressed women on a pavement

    The palenqueras of Cartagena de Indias

    August 31, 2023
  • Colombia,  Monday walks,  Photographing Public Art,  Street art,  Street photography,  Sunday Stills

    A wander through Getsemani

    March 21, 2023 / 60 Comments
    Single storey houses in bright colours

    Historically, Getsemani is the area of Cartagena where African slaves lived during colonial times. The Spanish had imported them (after they’d killed off most of the native population) to build their fortifications: the city walls and the Castillo San Felipe de Barajas. They were housed here, outside the city walls, away from the grand homes of the soldiers and merchants who controlled it.

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    Door knocker in the shape of a lizard

    Gallery: the door knockers of Cartagena

    April 29, 2023
    Colourfully painted houses on a cobbled street

    A postcard from Colombia: a street corner in Guatapé

    February 15, 2023
    Black and white photo of a hibiscus flower

    Gallery: seeing Colombia in black and white

    March 16, 2023
  • Art,  Colombia,  Photographing Public Art

    The unique vision of Fernando Botero

    March 10, 2023 / 41 Comments
    Sculpture of a large bald head from the rear, with a bald man standing next to it

    You can’t really miss the unique style of Colombia’s most famous artist. Whether on canvas or in sculpture, his figures are exaggeratedly rotund. The innate humour of these people, and animals, is often offset by sharp political commentary or by pensive contemplation of his own life and family. Indeed the theme of family is central to much of his work.

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    Sculpture of a soldier in uniform waving

    Gallery: a wartime farewell in Tavira

    April 23, 2022
    Man and dog on a bench

    Recycled Spirits of Iron (Ex Nihilo)

    May 20, 2021
    Large flying horse made of disjointed metal parts

    Radical Horizons: the Art of Burning Man at Chatsworth

    August 27, 2022
  • Colombia,  History,  Lens-Artists,  Monday walks,  Photographing Public Art,  Street art,  Street photography

    Finding peace in Medellín

    March 6, 2023 / 57 Comments
    Balconies with Comuna 13 in large colourful letters

    How do you find peace in a city rife with crime and violence? During the 1980s and most of the 1990s Medellín had the reputation of being one of the most violent cities in the world.

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    Street of brightly painted houses

    Gallery: an explosion of colour in Colombia

    April 7, 2023
    Colourfully painted houses on a cobbled street

    A postcard from Colombia: a street corner in Guatapé

    February 15, 2023
    Pale blue birds with darker blue wings

    Gallery: feeding the birds of Colombia

    March 1, 2023
  • Colombia,  Photographing Public Art,  Street art,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: the street art of Candelaria, Bogota

    February 24, 2023 / 43 Comments
    Colourful mural street art depicting two women

    If I had to choose a single word to associate with Colombia, it would be ‘colour’. Nowhere else, I believe, have I seen so many brightly painted houses as in some of its villages. And as for street art, I firmly believe the Colombians are obsessed!

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    Engraved gold band

    A postcard from Colombia: finding gold

    February 6, 2023
    Cobbled street of colourful houses

    Gallery: Guatapé, town of the zócalos

    April 11, 2023
    Straw hat with pink hibiscus flower

    One of Colombia’s most famous crops

    March 28, 2023
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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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