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  • Home
  • Destinations
    • England
      • London
      • Newcastle-upon-Tyne
    • 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
    • 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
    • Contact me
    • ‘Always Write’ interview
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  • Lens-Artists,  My photography,  Photographic techniques,  Themed galleries,  Travel in general

    Gallery: the roads I take

    March 12, 2023 / 73 Comments
    Road through a mountain pass

    It’s only eighteen months since Anne asked us to define our ‘photography groove’. My answer then was travel photography, and now that John asks much the same question about our favourite style or genre, the road we most often take, my answer remains the same.

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    Beams of wood painted in bright colours

    Gallery: perfect patterns around the world

    December 12, 2022
    Black and white photo of a man on a park bench eating

    Gallery: favourite people photos of 2021

    January 5, 2022
    Line of white telescope dishes on a grassy plain with distant mountains

    Gallery: the Very Large Array

    May 16, 2022
  • Sunday Stills,  Themed galleries,  Travel in general

    Gallery: should I stay or should I go?

    September 7, 2022 / 75 Comments
    Collage of eight small photos

    One thing I learned during the pandemic was that it is possible to have a good time holidaying in my own country. With travel abroad impossible we turned to UK options and managed to have several lovely short trips in the spaces between lockdowns. And of course like everyone, we explored our immediate area more thoroughly than in the past, seeking out places we’d never previously visited or finding new surprises in old haunts.

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    Two men in Arab robes on a sand dune

    Gallery: blackness against the light

    January 30, 2023
    Palm tree against deep blue sky with moon

    Gallery: fly me to the moon

    June 7, 2021
    PhotoSpiralysis effect on a deep purple flower

    Gallery: fabulous florals in a spin

    April 26, 2022
  • Friendly Friday,  Photographic techniques,  Themed galleries

    Friendly Friday Challenge: all or nothing?

    August 12, 2022 / 47 Comments
    Banner with two photos

    Let’s consider how much of your image is occupied by your main subject. Often the answer to that is, quite a lot of it. But you can take this to extremes, either filling the frame completely or leaving lots of empty space around your subject. Both can be effective, in different ways.

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    Forest in the mist

    Barking up the right tree in Costa Rica

    March 4, 2022
    Rocky coastline

    Stunning landscapes of Iceland: the day the sun shone

    October 29, 2021
    View down to an Italian town square and hills beyond

    Postcards from the past: a small town in Italy

    November 14, 2020
  • Lens-Artists,  Themed galleries,  Travel in general

    Gallery: travel photography is my ‘groove’

    August 8, 2022 / 62 Comments
    Two young Buddhist monks in robes, carrying umbrellas

    For those of us who grew up in the sixties, groovy was the feeling we all aspired to. Groovy was exciting, fun, cool (another sixties word!) Too young to really be part of hippy culture, it nevertheless influenced my tastes in fashion and music. Getting ‘in the groove’ was where I wanted to be, even if as a schoolgirl I was probably very far from being so!

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    Lady in bright carnival costume

    Carnival parade in Praia, Cape Verde

    January 18, 2021
    Mountain view framed by trees

    Gallery: in the frame

    August 15, 2023
    Large statues of North Korean Leaders with visiting locals

    Gallery: statues of the Great Leaders

    February 20, 2021
  • Friendly Friday,  Travel in general

    Travelling through the pages of books

    April 27, 2022 / 40 Comments
    Shelf of travel guide books

    Perhaps the next best thing to travelling is reading about travelling. Whether travelling through the pages of books, browsing internet travel sites, or reading travel blog posts; armchair travelling is a pleasure in itself.

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    Large group of dancers in traditional Korean green dress

    Gallery: dancing on the streets of Pyongyang

    November 28, 2020
    Rock formation with arch and pinnacle

    Video: big skies and red rock country

    May 29, 2021
    Hand holding knife and straw shavings

    Gallery: getting up close and personal

    September 24, 2021
  • History,  Landscape,  Lens-Artists,  People,  Travel in general

    Learning through travelling

    January 30, 2022 / 41 Comments
    Simple shop in a wooden shack and toddler in the scruffy lane alongside

    'Try to travel, otherwise you may become racist, and you may end up believing that your skin is the only one to be right' The above is the opening verse, in translation, of the song Viaggiate by Gio Evan, poet and songwriter. A friend posted it on Facebook and for me it sums up everything that is wonderful and important about travelling.

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    Rock with petroglyphs of animals

    Reading messages from the past

    January 29, 2023
    Sign saying Pie Town

    A pit stop in pioneering Pie Town

    June 24, 2021
    'Welcome to Syria' banner

    Once upon a time in Syria: part one

    September 19, 2020
  • Destinations,  My photography

    A year in numbers

    August 30, 2021 / 49 Comments
    Signpost with numbers against a lake backdrop

    A year ago I was at home, and bored with the limits put on our travels by the pandemic. Travel outside the UK was clearly going to be off the agenda for a while yet, so what to do? Maybe this was the perfect time to start a new challenge, one I had been considering for a while. I would launch a blog!

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    Road between graasy fields and woods, leading to mountains

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

    July 18, 2021
    Seascape with icebergs and snowy shores

    Travel inspiration – where does it come from?

    August 8, 2021
  • Destinations,  Lens-Artists,  Travel in general

    Travel inspiration – where does it come from?

    August 8, 2021 / 57 Comments
    Seascape with icebergs and snowy shores

    I am often asked where we get our inspiration from when deciding where to travel next. What makes us choose one destination over another, when there are so many places we could go?

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    Road between graasy fields and woods, leading to mountains

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

    July 18, 2021
    Signpost with numbers against a lake backdrop

    A year in numbers

    August 30, 2021
  • Destinations,  Lens-Artists,  Travel galleries

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

    July 18, 2021 / 42 Comments
    Road between graasy fields and woods, leading to mountains

    There’s a wonderful world out there, and I can’t wait to be able to travel again to see it all. But while I wait I am lucky to have so many great memories of past trips, and so many photos of them too.

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    Signpost with numbers against a lake backdrop

    A year in numbers

    August 30, 2021
    Seascape with icebergs and snowy shores

    Travel inspiration – where does it come from?

    August 8, 2021
  • Landscape,  Lens-Artists,  Nature and wildlife,  People,  Travel in general

    My love of travel: some special moments

    March 14, 2021 / 70 Comments
    Mountain scene with caption

    It feels as if I have always loved travelling, but where did that love come from? Not my childhood experiences, for sure, although the seeds may have been sown then. My first holidays were of the ‘bucket and spade’ variety, on the Kent coast within easy reach by train of our London home.

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    Bridge and rainbow from the air

    Gallery: Victoria Falls – what a treat

    October 27, 2020
    River with small boats and rocky cliff

    A day on the Nam Ou

    July 3, 2021
    Tree with dramatic sky

    Gallery: lone trees in the landscape

    July 22, 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

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