Photography, reading, walking with my dog, learning languages, meeting people, watching wildlife, horse riding, trying something new, … These are some of the passions that fuel my life and encourage my travels
This blog is my way of exploiting my love of writing and photography. I am keen to share my travel ideas, experiences and photographs. I hope you will find inspiration here, and that you will join me for a chat now and then by leaving a comment. Most importantly, I hope to pass on a smile or a chuckle.
If you want to contact me for interviews, commissions or to buy prints, please drop me a line at dsmyth@travelwithintent.com or call on +44 7973552583
Some recent photographic successes
Current and forthcoming exhibitions:
Women in Photography at the Glasgow Gallery for Photography, 3-31 March 2023
Landscape Photography at the Glasgow Gallery for Photography, 3-31 March 2023
Recent exhibitions:
BBA One Shot Awards, BBA Gallery, Berlin, 3-18 February 2023
Re:Framed at the Barbican Library, October 2022
Urban Landscapes at the RogArt Street Campus in Glasgow, 19-30 August 2022
World Photography Week exhibition at Glasgow Riverside Campus 15-19 August 2022
Out of the Frame exhibition at RogArt Street Campus in Glasgow, 4-30 August 2022
International Open Call Exhibition at The Glasgow Gallery for Photography, 20 May-4 June 2022
She Clicks exhibition, After Nyne Gallery, London, September 201
Recent publications:
Portfolio published in AAP Magazine Issue 20 – Travel – see one of my chosen images
Recent awards:
BBA One Shot Awards 2023 – longlisted
Monochrome Awards 2022 – honourable mention in the architecture section of Monochrome Awards 2022 – see my winning entry
British Photography Awards 2020 – winner of Best Architectural Photographer 2020 – see my winning entry 2020
Monochrome Awards 2020 – winner of Best Amateur Street Photographer 2020 – see my winning entry
Finalist in Travel Photographer of the Year (TPOTY) 2020
Shortlisted in Landscape Photographer of the Year 2020
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As promised – a travel quote. I am reading (or rather listening to the audio CD in German while occasionally trying to follow it in French) Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. The story is, of course, well known but boy! did he put in pages and pages (and more pages) on his thoughts about the revolution and Napoleon in general and the battle of Waterloo in particular and an incredible amount of chapters on religious orders. It is, I’m sorry to say, mind numbing.
But back to the quote, he writes: “To travel is to be born and to die at every instant”. – Or, to quote the whole passage to clarify his meaning: “To travel is to be born and to die at every instant; perhaps, in the vaguest region of his mind, he did make comparisons between the shifting horizon and our human existence: all the things of life are perpetually fleeing before us; the dark and bright intervals are intermingled; after a dazzling moment, an eclipse; we look, we hasten, we stretch out our hands to grasp what is passing; each event is a turn in the road, and, all at once, we are old; we feel a shock; all is black; we distinguish an obscure door; the gloomy horse of life, which has been drawing us halts, and we see a veiled and unknown person unharnessing amid the shadows.”
Anyway, I thought you’d like it.
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Wow! I do indeed, but I don’t think I’ll be rushing to read the book. I actually downloaded a couple of shorter French audible books to listen to on my walks. But I really struggled to concentrate. I then tried listening to something in English instead, and was equally useless at listening. So at least the problem wasn’t just my linguistic skills!!
Enough rambling though. I will definitely use this quote – it is wide open to photographic interpretation 🙂 Thanks Elke
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Hii mam, first of all thank you for subscribing me.i have a request for you that can we just connect with each other via insta or wats-up
i am from India and new in the blogging world and love to go with photographs and blogging so, please can we connect with each other
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Looking for something completely different, I came across this quote: “Photography is the story I fail to put into words.” by Destin Sparks (it’s quoted on Goodreads.com which is quite reliable with quotes, I think). I thought you might use it one of these days on your quotation challenge. 🙂
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Hi Debbie,
and of course I clicked “post comment” before I was finished and I hadn’t even added a hello. Looking for Destin Spark (whom I had not heard of before) I found other quotes on the goodreads site about photography (rather than travel) which are interesting: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/destin-sparks
Cheers
Elke
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Hi Elke Always in a hurry like me! I can’t even count the number of emails I send and then have to resend with their attachment!!
And the quote is a great one – I will definitely use. In fact, it is a good one to go with a story-telling project that I’m working on (well, thinking about)- telling a story with 5 pictures.
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🙂
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Debbie,
Your photos are amazing not only that, the wordings gave more charm to the images as well.I’m awaiting for more on coming days as well.
http://crozwalk.wordpress.com/
Hope we can talk each other on coming days too..
Thank you !
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Hey Debbie. Which WordPress theme do you use. I tried to scroll to the bottom of the site to look, but it just continued to add photos.
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Hi Joe. I use Cubic.
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I really like it, thanks.
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Wow! Stumbled upon this blog, I’ll be following you as I’ve travelled extensively through Asia , sadly too long ago now; kids have soaked up all my spare dosh!! What brilliant photos you’ve taken, are they all your own work? Are you a professional travel writer?
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Hi! Pleased to meet you.
Yes, all my own work and not professional – just a lover of travel, writing and photography.
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The holy trinity! Good stuff, where are you going next?
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Some favourite places in Spain
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Where are they? Mine are Panpaniera, Ronda and the Alpujarras
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I love pretty much all of Spain (or all that I’ve been to so far) But Barcelona, Tarragona, Girona, Calafell, Sitges, Vilafranca del Penedes and Valencia and area are on my trips in next few weeks.
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I’ll look out for the snaps!! Enjoy
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thanks
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I see so many interesting pictures on your site. I will follow you.
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I love your theme and curious to know which one it is?
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Glad you like it
I’ve used it for quite a while now and am pleased with it
It’s “Cubic”
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Hi,
I am writing to ask if you’d be interested in selling banner ads or sponsor posts (or ads in other form if you have other ideas) on travelwithintent.com.
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You can see an example of our ad on slatestarcodex.com (the design of the ad can be adjusted to match your website’s design).
What do you think?
Best,
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Hi! Happy to have found your blog! I love the layout, the style the content…everything! I’ve read some of your posts and I can’t wait to read more! Looking forward to following you 🙂
Lisa | http://www.fromdreamtoplan.net/
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Welcome Lisa
I’ve now discovered your blog too. It is very interesting and professionally put together. I can tell you are a mature and focussed 21 year old 🙂
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Oh thank you Debbie! 🙂
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Love your new blog look, Debbie! Hope you had a beautiful Mothers Day?
Am wondering what happened last week. Last week Sunday you had a beautiful photo with almond or cherry blossoms (I think that’s what they were). you left me a comment, but you didn’t link it to SEASONS – which I think was your intent (because the challenge) starts on Sunday). I left you a comment before Wed. night -but it’s not like you -not to get back to me.
So I hope everything is okay with you?? Hope I will see you this week (before Wed. 7pm, US, Pacific time) at
http://jeshstgermain.com/2016/05/06/seasons-mothers-day-in-may
Remember, it does not need to be a landscape but can be anything you have experienced during the season:) Have a great week ahead:):)
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Hi Jesh I’m fine, thanks for being concerned. I’ve been very busy with both work and travelling – home in a couple of days. I was on a photo workshop for a week which is extremely intensive – no time for blogging, not much time for sleeping either! Debbie
On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 12:23 AM, Travel with Intent wrote:
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Hi, I nominated you for the Blogger Recognition Award. Thanks for the very interesting posts!
Here’s the link: http://bonjourberlin.com/2016/01/14/blogger-recognition-award/
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I love seeing your photos and have nominated you for the Leibster award, heres a link for what to do 🙂 https://writingfordesire.wordpress.com/2015/09/04/my-first-liebster-award-nomination/
Keep traveling
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Thank you for your very kind nomination. I don’t accept awards these days – but I do appreciate that you took time to visit and nominate me.
And keep up the good work on your own blog
On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Travel with Intent wrote:
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I just went to comment on your fog post and it seems to have gone missing
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I pressed teh publish button by mistake – it wasn’t finished. It will be back soon!
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 7:31 PM, Travel with Intent wrote:
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Okay good! 😀
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You have visited in Finland – wow! Can You tell where?
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I have been to Helsinki And also Levi in Kittilä
On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 10:48 AM, Travel with Intent wrote:
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That’s great. Thank you responding. Happy Sunday! 🙂
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VERY cool…love that photograph…you on the wall? How’d you do that?
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A Blogger friend did it for me – cool, isn’t it?
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yes…very cool
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Hi, looks like you’ve got an extensive blog here, full of interesting things. Look forward to reading your posts.
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A pretty disparate bunch of interests maybe but I was thrilled to be ticking off most of them myself! So happy to have found a fellow blogger with such similar interests 🙂 Looking forward to your future posts 🙂
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I’ve just been over to visit you too. 🙂
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Thank you for taking a look 🙂 Just getting started and have a long, long way to go. Too many past travel posts pending 😉 O well… will get to them eventually 🙂
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Welcome
You run a very curious and interesting blog
I wish you keep it up
Greets you with Polish Lukasz
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Thank you, Debbie for giving me a chance to know you. Would like to follow your travels.
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Lovely photos. Look forward to becoming a regular visitor.
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Really enjoying my visits here. Regards from Thom at the immortal jukebox.
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Hi Debbie, Thanks for stopping by my blog – I appreciate it! Joy
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Hiya Debs 🙂 I have a terrible habit of forgetting to tell people when I nominate them for a challenge! I expect you’ve already ‘passed’ on this one but I know you’d do a grand job. https://restlessjo.wordpress.com/2015/03/04/black-and-white-5-day-challenge-day-2/ No worries if you don’t want to.
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Hi Debbie!
I have a bit of a beginners’ question for you. I see that, in your blog, you have pages with drop-down menus according to the geographic areas in your main menu… How do you do that?!
thanks!
Fabrizio
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It depends a bit on the theme you use as not all offer it. It is a custom menu based on categories. You’ll need to allocate countries to your posts as categories.
Go to WP Admin / Appearance / menus.
Then Create a New Menu and drag your categories from the left column into the Menu.
It’s a bit difficult to explain, but if you need help google wordpress custom menu and you’ll probably get a better explanation.
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Got it! I just had to drag stuff into the menu… a lot quicker than I expected 🙂 thanks.
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Debbie do you have any interest in participating in a B&W challenge?
I am in search of a few people to invite. It requires 5 B&W photos over 5 days…and the task of inviting a different person each day.
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Hi Debbie , I love your photos and your blog.
Thank you very much for reading my blog and stop by it.
I can use the Travelmap ?
Thank you very much .
Greetings .
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Oh yes, do use the travelmap – -y’s a 3rd party tool.
On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 11:20 PM, Travel with Intent wrote:
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Muchas gracias.
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Debie Hi , I tried to copy the Travel Map, but I have not succeeded. I copied and pasted into a text wigget but not served. Can you tell me how should I?
Thank you very much .
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Hi Debbie, thank you for your visit and decision to follow. I am delighted to find you and reciprocate.
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Thank you so much Debbie, for choosing to following our adventures in sailing and photography. We really appreciate your interest.
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Hi Debbie, thanks for stopping by my blog. I love your photos and I’m so jealous that you’ve visited 20% of the countries in the world. I’ve only been to 1%, a lot of catching up to do, methinks.
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I’ve been lucky – work has helped me get to some of them.
You’ve lived abroad which I would like to do , and you’ve written books too – so the jealousy goes both ways 🙂
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There’s bound to be a few books in you, with all that cultural experience, they’ll come out when the time is right. 🙂
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Thanks for stopping by and following my blog. I will look forward to following your travels as well.
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Hi! Loving your blog 🙂 I nominated you for the sisterhood of the world bloggers award
https://lilstreet.wordpress.com/2015/01/20/sisterhood-of-the-world-bloggers-award/
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Here’s a message from Türkiye to say “thank you” Debbie. I appreciate your recent ‘follow’, knowing how many interesting and entertaining blogs there are out there.
Blogging since June 2013, my little corner of the world tries to offer an eclectic smattering of posts, from basic amateur photography, to sharing my travel adventures over the decades, as well as day-to-day happenings here on our fruit farm in southern Turkey. I also throw in a few of my observations on life and lighter-hearted stuff for good measure.
You are more than welcome to have a look around, stay a while and have a trawl through my collection. There are plenty of categories within the drop-down menus to help in said digging process. Of course, if you have any comments, suggestions or concerns, feel free to let me know – I’m not easily offended 🙂
Hope you have a great day…
SPIKE
uncle.spikes.adventures1@gmail.com
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wow, 19% sounds quite a lot! I am only at 10%…so much farther to go…
Thanks for following my blog, Debbie 🙂
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I would like to use the travelmap. how can I do this?
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If you go here the site will guide you through: http://www.travbuddy.com/world-travel-map
Enjoy!
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Thanks so much for following my blog and leading me to yours. Glad I found it, and eager to follow your adventures.. Which should definitely include the Philippines 😉 Have a sweet day!
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One day 🙂
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 1:00 AM, Travel with Intent wrote:
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Hi Debbie thanks for visiting and following my blog Le Chic En Rose! As you say the camaraderie amongst bloggers is a great aspect of blogging that I had not expected either (I’ve just been blogging for a few months) but so enjoyable! I’m looking forward to reading through your blog now that I’ve found you and I’ve signed up to follow you too. Thanks again for your support much appreciated! Rosemary 🙂
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Hello Debbie-
Thank you for stopping by my blog and giving it a “follow.”
I hope you will enjoy coming along on my Nature ramblings. Be sure to share your thoughts and reflections! I noticed that none of the Pacific Northwest states are green yet… perhaps Just Another Nature Enthusiast may inspire travels our way ❤
~ Jane
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I certainly do need to head your way!
On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 7:15 AM, Travel with Intent wrote:
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You need to add some green to Australia on your map.. Come visit me!
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I must! 🙂
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Hi !! I came to know about you from Narami and as I am fairly new and getting around your blog,I won’t say I read many posts but I like the idea that you are hosting a photo challenge. Adding you to my blog roll so that I can see this as well your travel stories. Thank you and Have a great day 😀
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Great to meet you 🙂 I’ll be over to visit
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