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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
        • Colombia
        • 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
      • Nature Photo Challenge
      • 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 Trios
      • Thursday Doors
  • About me
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africa animals architecture art birds black_&_white bulgaria cambodia cffc chile churches cities colombia colour costa_rica dprk ealing england flowers france friendlyfriday Friendly_Friday history india just_one_person_from_around_the_world landscape lens-artists Lens_Artists_Challenge london Monday_Walks nepal new_mexico north_korea paris people photography photo_effects PPAC ruins Street_Art Street_Photography Sunday_Stills usa village wildlife
  • Landscape,  Sunday Stills,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: the sound of silence

    January 25, 2023 / 63 Comments
    Moon shine reflected in the sea and framed by shadowy trees

    How do you photograph silence? Photographing a sound seems challenging enough, being invisible; but the absence of sound even more so.

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    Sun rising above a tree

    Gallery: our fire returns

    April 7, 2022
    Looking down at snowy mountains from a plane

    Gallery: it’s a wonderful world, from above

    November 5, 2021
    Bridge and rainbow from the air

    Gallery: Victoria Falls – what a treat

    October 27, 2020
  • Mountains,  Nepal,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: sunrise over the Himalayas

    December 22, 2022 / 60 Comments
    Mountain peak with small plane

    We’d planned to spend our last day in Pokhara taking it easy. Swimming in the beautiful hotel pool, a walk by the lake, maybe a bit of shopping. But some things can’t be missed, and surely sunrise over the Himalayas is one of those things?!

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    Dramatic mountain landscape

    Gallery: Mountain, Desert, Jungle or Ocean?

    June 28, 2021
    Rocky coastline

    Stunning landscapes of Iceland: the day the sun shone

    October 29, 2021
    Road through mountains with snow and pine trees

    Gallery: on the road to the future?

    January 10, 2022
  • Mountains,  Nepal,  Postcards from the road

    A postcard from Nepal: Himalaya sunrise

    November 6, 2022 / 54 Comments

    We got up at 4.45 to go and watch the sunrise over the Himalayas - so worth it!

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    A postcard from Nepal: souvenir seller

    November 10, 2022
    Pine tree branch with out of focus mountains behind

    A day in the mountains: driving the North Cascades

    July 19, 2021
    View of mountains from wooded hillside

    Gallery: Himalaya vistas near Pokhara

    December 26, 2022
  • Colour,  Sunday Stills,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: tenderly love the apricots

    September 15, 2022 / 28 Comments
    Dried fruit and nuts displayed with price tags

    It is a long while since I did a colour challenge, but I love the excuse they give me to rummage through my archives. So I’ve pulled together a selection for Terri’s Sunday Stills challenge this week. Her chosen colour is apricot, which I found a little hard to pin down. Is it orange? Is it pink? Is it maybe peach?

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    Line of seated stone statues wearing red caps and bibs

    The Bake-Jizō of Kanmangafuchi Abyss

    February 16, 2021
    Blue and turquoise mosaic

    Gallery: feeling the blues

    November 11, 2021
    Dark red hollyhock with raindrops

    Gallery: what’s in a name? Burgundy / Beaujolais / Ruby reds

    November 23, 2021
  • Landscape,  Lens-Artists,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: another tequila sunrise (credit the Eagles)

    August 23, 2022 / 39 Comments
    River in foreground with deep orange sky and sun appearing

    Somehow, getting up early to watch a sunrise is so much easier when travelling. Of course it helps that the setting is usually both more beautiful and more interesting than the rooftops of our London suburbs above which we would normally see it rise.

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    River with small boats and rocky cliff

    A day on the Nam Ou

    July 3, 2021
    Steep-sided valley with tall palm trees and other vegetation

    A (steep) walk in the Valle Cocora

    March 13, 2023
    Lake set among pine forests

    The Lewis Burn inlet walk at Kielder Water

    March 22, 2021
  • CFFC,  Landscape,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: our fire returns

    April 7, 2022 / 45 Comments
    Sun rising above a tree

    Every ancient mythology placed significant focus on our sun, recognising it as our essential source of light, heat, and life. Without it we would not exist, nor would anything on this planet. Today we understand the science behind the phenomenon, but to the ancients the reappearance of the sun each morning after the hours of darkness must have seemed like a daily miracle.

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    River and wooded shore with reflections

    Gallery: on the Narayani River

    November 16, 2022
    Large building with green oriental roof

    A look inside the Grand People’s Study House

    November 18, 2021
    Looking down a spiral staircase

    Gallery: the perfect simplicity of a spiral staircase

    October 10, 2021
  • Guatemala,  Landscape,  Lens-Artists,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: the serenity of dawn on Lake Atitlàn

    December 19, 2021 / 38 Comments
    Man in small boat and a distant volcano

    Early morning by Lake Atitlàn. A lone fisherman drifts past, checking his lines. Volcanoes dot the horizon. In the distance a small motorboat speeds past; empty now but likely to be full of passengers when the lake’s ferry services start up soon. The jetties too are quiet, waiting for the lakeside villages to wake up.

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    Small fishing boat with a man in it, on a large lake

    Around the world in ten photos: day five

    December 21, 2020
    White painted cathedral

    A city shaped by earthquakes

    October 27, 2021
    Small town beneath a forested hillside

    Meeting Maximón, the idol of Santiago Atitlàn

    December 13, 2020
  • Botswana,  Nature and wildlife,  Rivers,  Sunday Stills

    The sun sets and the sun rises over the Chobe River

    June 21, 2021 / 28 Comments
    Orange sunset with water reflections

    The wide waters of the Chobe River form the northern boundary of the national park of the same name. They divide Botswana from its neighbour Namibia to the north. But of course the wildlife that teems on its shores, in its waters and in the skies above knows no national borders. And nor does the sun, which sets and rises on all.

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    Bed decorated with leaves and seeds

    Wherever I lay my hat … (continued)

    January 6, 2021
    Savannah landscape under blue sky

    A walk on Palm Island: hippos, hogs and crocs

    May 4, 2021
    Close up of a giraffe's eye

    Gallery: making eyes at me

    June 27, 2022
  • Coast & seascapes,  Eco-tourism,  Senegal

    The tragic tale of a Senegalese mouse

    May 28, 2021 / 24 Comments
    Pink sunrise over water

    When we travel to Africa we do so in the hope that we will see wildlife, and we have never yet been disappointed. We also accept that on occasion one of the smaller local creatures might find its way into our accommodation, a natural hazard in many parts of the world.

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    Canal with narrowboats decorated with flags

    Gallery: summertime and the livin’ …

    July 17, 2022
    Boardwalk with sea beyond and yellow flowers

    A spring walk by the sea in Faro

    April 19, 2022
    Dramatic mountain landscape

    Gallery: Mountain, Desert, Jungle or Ocean?

    June 28, 2021
  • Friendly Friday,  Landscape,  Oman

    Jebel Shams, the tallest mountain in Oman

    May 8, 2021 / 16 Comments
    Stony landscape with rough road

    The road wound up and up, at first tarmac, later gravel. If it weren’t for the few scrubby bushes we might almost have been on the moon, the landscape was so barren and rocky. It was hard to believe that this road led anywhere at all ...

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    Brightly painted yellow car raised on a platform

    Getting our kicks in Santa Rosa, NM

    June 15, 2021
    Close-up of head sculpted in bronze

    Purple Haze: remembering Jimi Hendrix

    July 30, 2021
    Forest in the mist

    Barking up the right tree in Costa Rica

    March 4, 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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