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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
        • 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
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    • Travel galleries
  • Challenges
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      • Friendly Friday
        • The Friendly Friday Challenge: how to join in
      • Monday walks
      • Writers’ Quotes Wednesday
    • Photography challenges
      • Lens-Artists
      • Life in Colour
      • One-to-Three
      • Photographing Public Art
      • Pick a Word
      • Squares
      • Sunday Stills
      • The Changing Seasons
      • Thursday Trios
      • Cee’s challenges
        • CBWC
        • CFFC
        • CMMC
    • Challenges archive
      • Bird Weekly
      • Friday’s Foods of the World
      • Just One Person
      • Ten photos
      • Thursday Doors
  • About me
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  • Lens-Artists,  Street photography,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: shots to make you smile (I hope)

    April 25, 2022 / 42 Comments
    Seagull on a pay for parking sign

    We could all use a laugh from time to time, and maybe more than ever over the last few years. It seems to be part of human nature to look for humour in the darkest times.

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    Large Star Wars Storm Trooper figures wearing masks

    Gallery: finding interest in the everyday

    January 16, 2022
    Statue of two soldiers shaking hands

    Gallery: favourite miscellaneous photos of 2021

    January 7, 2022
    Golden temple reflected in a lake

    Exploring the temple gardens of Kyoto

    May 9, 2021
  • London,  The Changing Seasons,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: a March selection

    April 1, 2022 / 26 Comments
    Lake with blue sky and distant buildings

    March has been a quiet month for photography, on the whole. It started slowly as I searched, sometimes in vain, for subjects that inspired me. Then halfway through the month spring started to arrive. Trees burst into blossom, shortly followed by my beloved magnolias.

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    Mural of girl's face with birds for hair

    Gallery: a street art walk in Shoreditch

    November 6, 2021
    Cluster of pink flowers

    Gallery: inspired by spring blossoms

    March 26, 2022
    Bee on a yellow flower

    Gallery: it’s all in the details

    May 2, 2021
  • CBWC,  Street photography,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: capturing photographers in black and white

    March 30, 2022 / 19 Comments
    Black and white silhouetted figures in front of an ornate domed building

    It seems to me that holding a camera gives a lot of people a sense of freedom. They appear more relaxed, less constrained by their surroundings. So what a great opportunity that is for the rest of us who are also carrying a camera with an eye to some street photography!

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    Black and white photo of sea stacks

    Gallery: reflecting on black and white

    July 24, 2021
    Black and white photo of two zebras

    Gallery: seeing animals in black and white

    December 23, 2021
    Looking directly down at a cluster of simple houses

    Gallery: ways of seeing

    April 2, 2022
  • Photographing Public Art,  Street art,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: just passing by (street art)

    March 18, 2022 / 27 Comments
    Man passing a bright wall painting on a dark building

    When I photograph street art I am conscious that for the most part the success of the image depends on the quality of the piece of art itself, and that any creativity involved is that of the original artist, not mine as a photographer. So I often try to create something new by involving a passer-by, or two.

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    Large wooden curved structure

    Gallery: Seville’s mushrooms, art or architecture?

    December 4, 2021
    Rough wooden sign on the edge of a beach

    A short (hot) walk around Guiones

    March 31, 2022
    Bronze sculpture of two young elephants

    A little bit of Nairobi in London’s Spitalfields

    January 22, 2022
  • Cambodia,  Street photography,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: Psar Thmei, Phnom Penh’s Central Market

    February 13, 2022 / 36 Comments
    Group of people sitting on blue plastic stools in a market

    There’s little I enjoy more when travelling than a visit to a local market. Large or small there is always plenty to see, and therefore to photograph. And you can gain great insights into the way of life in the country. What do local people eat? How do they dress? How indeed do they shop?

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    Stone ruin surrounded by trees

    Gallery: Ta Prohm, Angkor’s Royal Monastery

    October 7, 2021
    Hand holding knife and straw shavings

    Gallery: getting up close and personal

    September 24, 2021
    Pink bike helmet with Pinkie logo

    Gallery: motorbike ‘art’ in South East Asia

    December 27, 2021
  • London,  Squares,  Street photography

    Gallery: odd (square) corners of London

    February 4, 2022 / 33 Comments
    Signpost with this way, that way and no way

    If you have lived in a city for a long while, maybe all your life, you find yourself photographing its sights less and less, however lovely there may be. Do I really need another photo of the Tower of London? Of St Paul’s Cathedral? Of the river Thames?

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    Lake with blue sky and distant buildings

    Gallery: a March selection

    April 1, 2022
    Deep pink blossom

    Gallery: an April selection

    May 1, 2022
    Cluster of pink flowers

    Gallery: inspired by spring blossoms

    March 26, 2022
  • People,  Themed galleries,  Thursday Trios

    Gallery: taking on a new challenge

    January 14, 2022 / 34 Comments
    Three men in white with colourful turbans

    Is there room in my blogging life for a new challenge? Possibly not, but when I came across Thursday Trios I was intrigued and decided to see what I could find in my photo archives. Today it is all about people. Finding them in groups of three isn’t always as easy as you might think. Couples are common of course, as are larger groups, but threes less so.

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    Bronze statue of a seated man holding a hat

    Looking for Thomas Hardy in Dorset

    November 17, 2021
    Banner with photo of a man in black and white football top

    Friendly Friday: meet some amazing guides (part two)

    November 26, 2021
    Simple shop in a wooden shack and toddler in the scruffy lane alongside

    Learning through travelling

    January 30, 2022
  • Kerala,  Monday walks,  Photographing Public Art

    A walk in Fort Kochi, Kerala

    January 12, 2022 / 40 Comments
    Man sitting among motorbikes in front of a garage

    On a chilly January day in London I am inevitably dreaming of warmer climes. A place where the sun is shining; where a stroll through city streets delivers colour, warmth, a bit of excitement and a lot of interest.

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    Track through small green bushes and slender trees

    Gallery: a walk in a tea plantation

    June 14, 2022
    Hazy view of bamboo clump

    Periyar’s monkeys, elephants, bison and more

    October 4, 2021
    Smiling lady on a bamboo ladder

    Gallery: in the Cardamom Hills of Kerala

    May 17, 2022
  • Lens-Artists,  Street photography,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: favourite people photos of 2021

    January 5, 2022 / 51 Comments
    Black and white photo of a man on a park bench eating

    Whether close to home or travelling further afield, one of my favourite subjects for photography is always the people I see. I recognise that some have concerns about candid street photography, and I understand those. But to me these photos of people living out their daily lives tell you so much about a place. On city streets or elsewhere, it’s the people that bring a place to life.

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    Rock arch with rock stack

    Gallery: earth’s story told in its rocks

    March 27, 2022
    Black and white photo of tree and rocks

    Gallery: less is more (minimalism in photography)

    June 6, 2022
    Road between graasy fields and woods, leading to mountains

    Gallery: getting away, or, there’s a wonderful world out there!

    July 18, 2021
  • Architecture,  Lens-Artists,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: favourite city life photos of 2021

    January 2, 2022 / 46 Comments
    Modern buildings and cathedral dome in dull weather

    My travels may have been somewhat curtailed in 2021 but I did manage to visit two beautiful cities abroad. One, Paris, is well known to me (this was my seventh visit, I think), while the other, Seville, was new. They proved a rich source of photos, as did my home city of London.

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    Row of old shops and cafes

    A stroll around Las Vegas

    October 19, 2021
    Lake with palace on the hill beyond

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

    November 18, 2020
    Looking up at a white stone church with several domes

    Le Sacré Coeur de Paris

    April 10, 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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