Torre de Belém at dawn

The penultimate set of photos from this trip.  Our last two destinations, the amazing temples of Bagan and finally  the transcendental Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon.     After hightailing it out of Mandalay, we moved on to Bagan – equalled only by Angkor Wat in Cambodia for the number and beauty of its temples.  In contrast…

” Today’s photo: Long low evening light over just harvested wheat fields in central France, taken last autumn. This is the classic country view on the way to our place at la Rocheliere. Note: Click photo to enlarge – back button to return. ←PreviousOh Shoeburyness, Shoeburyness – the greatest gift that I possessNextYou no see…

Some recent photographs which focus on lines and shapes, taken in and around London.       These shots are possibly more ‘urban landscape’ than street photography, in that there is minimal evidence of people and the compositions rely more on shapes than content.  With the exception of the last one, they were taken with…

I am slowly grinding through my backlog of photographs for processing. I have now reached May 2015, and it is becoming clear to me that I need to return to the photo essay format.. Here is the first of these, this time from a series of street shots in the Malasana region of Madrid taken…

Back in the Water Gardens in time for the Spring Blossom – one very fine reason to be back in England.         The Japanese gardens where we live are at their best at this time of year, but they have been a photographic challenge for me ever since we arrived.  At the…