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    • England
      • London
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    • Europe
      • Albania
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      • Estonia
      • France
        • Paris
      • Germany
      • Iceland
      • Italy
      • Jersey
      • Latvia
      • Norway
      • Portugal
      • Spain
        • Seville
      • Switzerland
      • Ukraine
    • Beyond
      • Africa
        • Botswana
        • Cape Verde
        • Gambia
        • Kenya
        • Madagascar
        • 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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  • One Word Sunday,  Photographic techniques,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: using triangles in photography

    August 13, 2023 / 58 Comments
    Conical piles of coloured powders in front of striped fabrics

    In photography, triangles add dynamism to an image, leading the viewer's gaze towards a focal point or important element within the shot. They can also create a sense of balance and stability, depending on their shape and placement.

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    Monks in orange robes seated on the floor

    Tak Bat in Luang Prabang

    August 27, 2023
    Shiny blue motorbike

    Gallery: the wheel turns and turns

    March 19, 2023
    Arc of round stained glass windows

    Gallery: a window on Paris

    September 17, 2023
  • Lens-Artists,  Photographic techniques,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: perfect patterns around the world

    December 12, 2022 / 42 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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    Close up of tan, green and white feathers

    Gallery: favourite detail photos of 2021

    January 6, 2022
    Performers in a stadium with a backdrop image of Kim Jong Un

    The Land of the People

    December 13, 2021
    Half-finished relief carving of people in ancient dress

    Works in progress around the world

    August 6, 2023
  • Friendly Friday,  Photographic techniques,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: abstract shapes and colours

    July 16, 2022 / 42 Comments
    Colourful striped fabrics

    Try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, a house, a field, or whatever. Merely think, 'Here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow,' and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact colour and shape, until it gives you your own impression of the scene before you.

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    Red and black igiana

    The ‘Christmas’ marine iguanas of Española Island

    December 6, 2020
    Banner with photo of two women in yellow dresses

    Friendly Friday: meet some wedding guests in Cambodia

    October 8, 2021
    Banner with photo of a man in black and white football top

    Friendly Friday: meet some amazing guides (part two)

    November 26, 2021
  • Architecture,  Lens-Artists,  Nature and wildlife,  Photographic techniques,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: monochrome curves

    March 20, 2022 / 50 Comments
    Looking up at a spiral staircase

    The world is full of curves. A bend in the road; a gently drooping flower; the arch of a bridge; a spiral staircase. Animals curl up to sleep or to feel safer. Leaves gradually unfurl. The wind shapes a sand dune daily into new curves, and with time water does the same to hard rocks.

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    Two white bell towers

    A stroll around Tavira

    April 29, 2022
    White statue of a saint against a blue sky

    Sweet freedoms in Tirana

    May 8, 2023
    Closed sign on a shop door

    Gallery: when one door closes …

    June 20, 2022
  • Lens-Artists,  Nature and wildlife,  Photographic techniques,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: nature by design

    November 14, 2021 / 30 Comments
    Black and white photo of umbrella-shaped seed heads

    Alexander McQueen is not the first person to suggest that nature is the best designer. Indeed, as far back as the Ancient Greeks similar things were being said.

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    Cityscape with river in the distance

    The bliss of returning to the air

    November 24, 2021
    Golden temple reflected in a lake

    Exploring the temple gardens of Kyoto

    May 9, 2021
    Orthodox cathedral at the end of a wide street

    Gallery: Sofia’s St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral

    March 7, 2021
  • CFFC,  Photographic techniques,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: converging lines and the vanishing point

    October 15, 2021 / 14 Comments
    Large brick building with pools and low hedges in front

    The number one rule of perspective is that lines that are parallel to each other appear to converge to the same point in the distance. This point is known as the vanishing point.

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    Large building with green oriental roof

    A look inside the Grand People’s Study House

    November 18, 2021
    Sign on boarded-up window

    Gallery: London, off the beaten track (urban erosion)

    January 17, 2021
    Sculpture of a bronze wheel decorated with figures, buildings etc

    Gallery: turning wheels and circles from my past

    October 5, 2021
  • Architecture,  CFFC,  Lens-Artists,  London,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: the perfect simplicity of a spiral staircase

    October 10, 2021 / 33 Comments
    Looking down a spiral staircase

    Sometimes (often?) photography is more about serendipity than anything else. A purposeful photo outing is enjoyable of course, and often reaps great rewards; but arguably we derive the most pleasure from finding an unexpected subject for our lens just by chance? I visited a London gallery that I hadn’t been to before. The exhibition was not especially inspiring, but I fell in love with the gallery's spiral staircase. Or perhaps more accurately, I fell in love with the photographic possibilities it presented.

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    Arc of round stained glass windows

    Gallery: a window on Paris

    September 17, 2023
    View of cathedral on far side of river, with large crane

    Rising from the ashes: Notre Dame in 2021

    September 30, 2021
    Low blue house with tiled roof

    Koprivshtitsa: a Bulgarian time capsule

    May 22, 2023
  • CFFC,  Squares,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: turning wheels and circles from my past

    October 5, 2021 / 16 Comments
    Sculpture of a bronze wheel decorated with figures, buildings etc

    I’m coming late to Cee’s shapes challenge this week, Circles and Wheels, but I couldn’t resist joining in as I love to look for shapes in my photography. I’ve trawled through the archives of photos taken at home and abroad, and found what I hope is an interesting mix!

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    River shaded by tall trees

    Misadventure on the Rio Nosara

    March 9, 2022
    Looking down a spiral staircase

    Gallery: the perfect simplicity of a spiral staircase

    October 10, 2021
    Bright red berries

    Gallery: the colours of the season

    December 16, 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

Some topics I’ve touched on

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