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  • Destinations
    • England
      • London
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    • 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
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      • 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
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      • Writers’ Quotes Wednesday
    • Challenges archive
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  • Art,  Crafts,  Lens-Artists

    Works in progress around the world

    August 6, 2023 / 46 Comments
    Half-finished relief carving of people in ancient dress

    One thing I always enjoy while travelling is to see artists at work or locals demonstrating local crafts. It helps me to understand and appreciate the artistic traditions of a country. It can also open my eyes to the amount of effort that has gone into creating some of the beautiful things I see around me.

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    Street with low houses and woman carrying a basket

    Weird and wonderful: forbidden culture in Cuenca

    October 24, 2021
    Street art with three Mona Lisa inspired murals

    Gallery: art comes in threes

    July 22, 2022
    Man and dog on a bench

    Recycled Spirits of Iron (Ex Nihilo)

    May 20, 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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    Low blue house with tiled roof

    Koprivshtitsa: a Bulgarian time capsule

    May 22, 2023
    Large cafe with pavement tables and teddy bears at the windows

    A stroll through the Marais

    September 19, 2022
    Church roof and bell tower with the sea behind

    A walk around Ancona’s picturesque old town

    February 2, 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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    A large 1960s style home

    The legacy of Enver Hoxha

    May 13, 2023
    White statue of a saint against a blue sky

    Sweet freedoms in Tirana

    May 8, 2023
    White blossom and deep blue sky

    Gallery: an April selection (2023)

    May 2, 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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    Half-finished relief carving of people in ancient dress

    Works in progress around the world

    August 6, 2023
    Large flying horse made of disjointed metal parts

    Radical Horizons: the Art of Burning Man at Chatsworth

    August 27, 2022
    Bronze sculpture of two young elephants

    A little bit of Nairobi in London’s Spitalfields

    January 22, 2022
  • Art,  Bulgaria,  Photographing Public Art,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: some of the many monuments of Sofia

    October 15, 2022 / 25 Comments
    Sculpture of a lion outside a building with columns

    Sofia may have moved its many communist era monuments to a dedicated museum, but that doesn’t mean that the city is short of interesting public art pieces. And there is quite a variety, from the purely artistic to the historically significant.

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    Man and dog on a bench

    Recycled Spirits of Iron (Ex Nihilo)

    May 20, 2021
    Half-finished relief carving of people in ancient dress

    Works in progress around the world

    August 6, 2023
    Stylised female statue head

    The art on the Tyne

    December 11, 2021
  • Art,  England,  Photographing Public Art

    Radical Horizons: the Art of Burning Man at Chatsworth

    August 27, 2022 / 61 Comments
    Large flying horse made of disjointed metal parts

    Burning Man is a unique event that takes place every year in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, USA. But we are not in the deserts of Nevada; we are among the green hills of England’s Peak District.

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    Three large sculptures in a landscape

    Gallery: the Yorkshire Sculpture Park

    September 4, 2021
    Group of sculpted figures among dune grass

    The Conversation Piece and the Eye

    June 11, 2022
    Clothes hanging on a white wooden door

    Gallery: the Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Garden in St Ives

    April 4, 2021
  • Latvia,  Photographing Public Art

    Introduction to some monuments in Riga

    June 25, 2022 / 25 Comments
    Looking up at large stone sculpture of a soldier

    Riga was a city in which I quickly felt very comfortable. It has a compact old town with plenty to see but not too ‘aspic-like’; by which I mean that it felt both touristy and homely at the same time, somewhere I could imagine that the locals don’t feel too overwhelmed by the history and the visiting population. It is also a city of monuments.

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    Large yellow building with white window details and ornamentation

    Rundāle, the Baltic Versailles?

    August 18, 2022
    Sculpture of a cat on a roof

    Gallery: meet the many cats of Riga

    September 25, 2021
    Very large green snail sculpture

    Gallery: giant snails invading Riga!

    November 12, 2021
  • Art,  England,  Photographing Public Art

    The Conversation Piece and the Eye

    June 11, 2022 / 39 Comments
    Group of sculpted figures among dune grass

    Some sculptures are all the better for being in just the right place; think of the Angel of the North or Statue of Liberty, for example. And in its own less dramatic way that is true of the Conversation Piece in South Shields.

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    Sculpture of a lion outside a building with columns

    Gallery: some of the many monuments of Sofia

    October 15, 2022
    Large wooden curved structure

    Gallery: Seville’s mushrooms, art or architecture?

    December 4, 2021
    Clothes hanging on a white wooden door

    Gallery: the Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Garden in St Ives

    April 4, 2021
  • Art,  Photographing Public Art,  Portugal,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: a wartime farewell in Tavira

    April 23, 2022 / 40 Comments
    Sculpture of a soldier in uniform waving

    When we visited Tavira for the day from our weekend base in Faro, I couldn’t help noticing the life-size statue of a soldier outside the station. He holds his kit bag in his right hand while his left is raised in farewell.

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    Very large green snail sculpture

    Gallery: giant snails invading Riga!

    November 12, 2021

    Gallery: tripling the impact

    April 8, 2022
    Print with blue mountains

    Dust collectors? Or precious memories?

    January 23, 2021
  • Art,  Paris

    A visit to the Musée Rodin in Paris

    January 26, 2022 / 34 Comments
    Garden with statue and gold dome beyond

    Over breakfast on a damp Parisian morning we discussed our plans for the day. Maybe rather than a walk a museum visit would be a better option, given the weather? This museum occupies the Hôtel Biron, where Rodin lived for the last decade of his life.

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    Lake with palace on the hill beyond

    The Palace of Bundi: Kipling’s ‘work of goblins’

    November 18, 2020
    Man and dog on a bench

    Recycled Spirits of Iron (Ex Nihilo)

    May 20, 2021
    Bronze sculpture of two young elephants

    A little bit of Nairobi in London’s Spitalfields

    January 22, 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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