Travel & Humanitarian Photos
I’ve been on holiday. Oh, yes, I’ve been having a break filled with the sort of traditional, English things that define “holiday” to a person of my background and vintage. I’ve spent a couple of weeks in deepest, darkest Dorset – which is neither “deep” nor “dark” to be honest, but I enjoy the alliteration. [...]
Just about to set off for the return trip to Bangkok after a busy but really enjoyable two weeks back in the Old Country. It’s been great to catch up with friends and family and those familiar faces and places offer a sense of stability and security in my changeable world. I seem to be [...]
It is perhaps no accident that the first five images from my Year in Pictures show very typically English scenes, given that I was planning to move half-way around the world at the time they were taken. This is the last of those five and shows a bluebell wood in Hampshire. In a country that [...]
Also from Swanage, on England’s south coast, is this image of the town at dusk. This photo was taken at the end of a long but satisfying walk along the coastal path, arguably one of England’s most beautiful sections of coastline. I arrived in Swanage as the sun was setting behind the town and this [...]
My March photograph is, for me, quintessentially English. It was taken on a damp platform at Swanage Steam Railway Station and shows two steam train buffs either reading their newspapers or, more probably, checking the train timetable. I love the deep green of the railway coach, such a typically English colour. The British Racing Green [...]
February’s image also comes from the English Lake District and shows Lake Buttermere on a perfectly calm, winter’s day. It’s unusual to find the lake as calm as this but the near-perfect symmetry of the reflection really appealed to the sense of order that often informs my photographic endeavours. I photographed the lake over several [...]
I’ll kick off my “Year in Pictures” with this shot from Lake Windermere in the English Lake District. I had to stand on tip-toe on top of a park bench in order to get the seagulls below the line of the distant hills. They’re nearly all facing the right way, apart from the stubborn bird [...]