Gironde Carrelet at dusk

Some more London street shots – now working on closer shots with wider lenses   There are of course vastly more than enough street photographs of London, so there ought to be some rationale for my taking and publishing even more.  The usual justification is that they are taken from one’s own unique point of…

The scene in Cape Town the weekend after Mandela died – when the great and good of the ANC came out before the TV cameras, and others silently watched.         Nelson Mandela died on Thursday 5th December 2013, at a time when we happened to be in Cape Town.  His death occurred…

” Click photo to enlarge – back button to return. Taken on the shoreline facing Butterworth, in Penang. This was quite a tricky shot – the jetty was fantastically unstable, and behind me, at the end of the run, there was a rabid barking dog, which I later had to fend off with the tripod…

Click to enlarge. I rose yesterday morning with no trace of the hangover that might have been expected given the excesses of the previous evening. The morning scales reading (net weight, pre-breakfast) was also unexpectedly low, but despite the lack of any immediate requirement to try to lose weight,  I resolved to run on the…

Today’s photo:Getting the bread. This shot was taken in Nalliers, on the river Gartempe in the Vienne region of France. The old gent was notably wobbly on his bike, and seemed to be heading out to get his morning baguette. Note: Click photo to enlarge – back button to return.  This now works for the…

In my last post I described a new approach to showing images from Himalayan and other treks.  Using that approach, here are a selected set of photographs from the very fine trek to Nar and Phu that my friend J*y and I did in spring 2009.     A brief word about Nar and Phu first. …