Before we became besieged with pandemics, lockdowns and vaccines we had begun a tour of our own country …. England …… and in bite sized chunks. We concentrated on areas associated with history, especially those with plenty of English Heritage… Read More ›
Photography
Photos, photo challenges
Flower Of The Day Challenge #6 Cuckoo Pint
Cuckoo Pint is the common or everyday name for the Arum Maculatum found everywhere across England. It was named as such in Nicholas Culpepers’ famous 17th-century herbal, but it is known by many other names too across the world. I… Read More ›
Which Way Challenge: #4 Pheriche to Everest
My experience of mountaineering in the Alps and the Himalaya could often be a continuous oscillation between absolute delight and abject misery! My delight was usually a function of clean, fresh air, the people one would meet, companions, the scenery,… Read More ›
Challenge Your Camera: Colour Splash revisited.
My #challengeyourcamera post last week caused a bit of a stir! It was based on the technique known as Photo Splash with which you convert an image to monochrome, then recolour certain parts of the image, usually just a single… Read More ›
Challenge Your Camera: #7 Bridges
I have quite a few followers who have photography fetishes, with doors especially, and more …… you know who you are! Well, it’s time to own up to my own fetish ….. photographically speaking …… it’s bridges. Large, small, steel,… Read More ›
Just One Person #2 Thinker
The man in this photo is French, he’s sitting alone outside a wine bar in Beaune, France. It’s early morning, he’s finished his cup of coffee and is possibly wondering what to do next. He takes out a pouch of… Read More ›
Flower of The Day Challenge #5 Orchid
My wife’s late father was an avid orchid grower in Kathmandu. He had his own mini nursery on the rooftop of his house in Ason in the centre of old Kathmandu. He propagated them and almost certainly created new clones… Read More ›