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Some snaps from my recent trip from Phnom Phen and Siem Reip. Apologies for the earlier problem with MS Explorer. I have now tested this with Firefox, Explorer and Chrome, and all seem to work fine.
Boat and mill at Nalliers
Today’s photo: Boat and mill at Nalliers. An abandoned fishing boat tied up opposite the old mill in Nalliers, in the Vienne area of France. The river Gartempe cuts its way through some very attractive country, and it is studded with villages like Nalliers at it’s crossing points. Shot with my new Olympus E-M5 Mark…
The ruined villas of Kep-sur-Mer
A final photo-essay from our trip last autumn. This time it is the elegiac ruined villas of Kep – a place of many surprises, including the provenance of these buildings. One of the things I had heard about Kep was the abandoned villas that were scattered through the area. They weren’t particularly apparent…
Nar-phu trek (2009) selected photographs
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. …
Riders from the sea
I have wanted to take this shot for a while after having noticed the effect a year or two ago. The viewpoint is from Kommetjie looking across the bay to Long Beach where the horses are exercised in the morning. I liked the idea of appearing to see the riders as though from a boat…
Olympics – closing ceremony
Thanks to a very generous friend, I was able to be at the Olympic stadium for the closing ceremony of the main Olympics. This was a quite bonkers event, but astounding to watch, and wonderful to participate in. Here are some photos, taken again with the little Canon. I have not provided captions for the…