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Weekly Photo Challenge; Street Life
I’ve been waiting to share these photos! How wonderful! They say ‘Play me, I’m yours! I wish we could have things like this in London, but it’s too wet at times, and they would get vandalised :-(...
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Mandarin Duck
I love these ducks! When I first saw one years ago in central London I couldn’t believe it was real! They look like they are carved from wood. I haven’t seen one for ages, but was out taking photos...
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The Palace of Westminster
This week I have been uploading lots of photos to my Redbubble account and iStockphoto, but for some silly reason when I saw this week’s Weekly Photo Challenge; Monument, I went blank!! I started...
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The Monument in Weybridge
Weybridge has its very own monument! This monument has a very interesting history. It was originally erected in Seven Dials in central London near Covent Garden. In the 18th Century, the Seven Dials...
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California Quail
When we first saw these birds in Australia we thought they had got leaves caught in their heads like Wilson does when he roots around in bushes It was only when we saw lots of them that we realised...
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Weekly Photo Challenge; On the move
I’ve been a bit slow off the mark this week, simply because I am spoilt for choice for photographs to enter for this challenge! Here are a small few of the hundreds of pictures I took in Australia...
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I won an award for my photo!
Yesterday we spent the evening in LV21, a converted Lightship in Gillingham in Kent. One of my photos, ‘Sunrise on the Medway’ was placed in the Top 5 in an RSPB photography competition! I took this...
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Does anyone eat Llama?
Out walking this weekend, we came across a flock of llamas. From a distance they look like strange sheep, but not up close! They look so cute! I can see that they have been shorn, so they must be...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Silhouette
I’m not usually up early enough to catch the sunrise, definitely not in summer! Thankfully for me I can capture silhouettes at sunset too! Here is one I took of people fishing at sunset on a beach in...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Silhouette
I love taking photos at sunset, so I don’t need a weekly photo challenge to be looking for silhouettes , however I did have this weeks challenge in mind this evening as the sun went down into the...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Dialogue
This week’s Weekly Photo Challenge asks us to consider Dialogue Dialogue is an engaging conversational exchange. When it comes to photography, dialogue can be perceived as a consensual interaction...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Signs
I posted a sign from New Zealand before: Weekly Photo Challenge; Letters Here are some more I found there for this week’s photo challenge.
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreamy
I’ve only just learned how to do this on my camera…. take a photo of running water and make it look all steamy and blurred! On Auto, my camera would have taken a very clear picture of the water at …...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Refraction
I have posted this photo before, but when I went to look for it, the photo is not the same version. I took this picture through a car window in a downpour so heavy I wouldn’t even open the window! …...
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My Photo won me some tickets on the London Eye!
I entered the Totally Thames Photo Competition with this photo & I won one of the runner-up prizes :-) I liked this one for the reflections on the water. I’m very Chuffed! Here is the link to the...
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Travel Theme: Autumn
Autumn has been very late this year, on Halloween, the temperature was a record high of 23.6 C (74.3F) ! Warmer than many of our summer days in years gone by! As a result strawberries are still...
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Blue Monday: A Blue Dress
Blue is my favourite colour, and I’m always collecting photos of blue colours, so when i found Sally’s Blue Monday challenge I had to join in. I took this photo in India, about 8 years ago. We were...
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Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red
Marking 100 years since the first day of Britain’s involvement in the First World War, the major art installation ‘Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red‘ is at the Tower of London. Created by ceramic...
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Shawl Seller’s at Sunset
When I posted a photo of Samia’s Daughter for the Blue Monday challenge last week I thought I had posted this photo of her mother & other shawl sellers before, but I haven’t been able to find it,...
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Another Blue Monday: A Blue Chicken
Here is another of my collection of blue photos for Sally’s Blue Monday challenge This one I found on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, originally intended for a statue of William the 4th on a...
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