Ducatos – better than a vacation

Back in the warm south thankfully.  Here are a few photographs of the area immediately around our place in the Southern part of the Cape peninsula.         It’s late summer here, a lovely time when the winds ease, and the days are long and languid.  This year I only brought the little…

Today’s photo:You’ll appreciate our high-speed checkout facilities. Shot in the glamorous Erith waterfront on the Thames estuary. A four minute long exposure shot featuring one of the many items of supermarket hardware to be found in the river at this point. I have a few more of these to come – I recently discovered that…

The Chickadee and I did a circuit of Myanmar in late September and October.  I will be releasing batches of shots from this trip – here is the first, from the first place we stayed in,  the Myanmar Inle Treasure The Myanmar trip was the first I have ever done with a full-on photography intent. …

The second installment of Myanmar photographs here.  These show a lot more of daily life on the lakes and channels of this very evocative region.     Inle is a huge inland lake in the north-east of the country.  It is surrounded by hills, and looks almost to have been an old caldera – I…

” Today’s photo:Gironde Carrelet at dusk. An evening long exposure shot around sunset, of one of the iconic fishing jetties, or ‘Carrelets’ on the banks of the Gironde. This lovely river flows into Bordeaux, and flanks some of the most famous locations in French wine. It is also home to little fish, rather like Whitebait,…