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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 two.

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
You’ll find me on Instagram at @travel_travel_with_intent and @dsmythphoto

Recent awards and exhibitions

Current and forthcoming exhibitions:
nothing current

Recent exhibitions:
Construction: Disclosure, LIP’s 35th annual exhibition at Espacio Gallery,London, January 2024
Empty Places, Abandoned Spaces at Praxis Gallery, St Paul’s, MN, Dec ’23 – Jan ’24
Gibellina Photoroad Festival, as part of Mimi Mollica’s Fracture project, 28 July – 30 September 2023 in Gibellina, Sicily
Lauderdale House photographic exhibition 2023, 19 July – 14 August 2023, London
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
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
Lauderdale House photographic exhibition 2022, London, 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 2019

Recent publications:
Portfolio published in AAP Magazine Issue 20 – Travel – see one of my chosen images

Recent awards:
Finalist in Travel Photographer of the Year (TPOTY) 2023
British Photography Awards 2023 – shortlisted for Best Architectural Photographer 2023
BBA One Shot Awards 2023 – longlisted for my Angular Spiral
Monochrome Awards 2022 – honourable mention in the architecture section of Monochrome Awards 2022    – see my entry
British Photography Awards 2021 – winner of Best Architectural Photographer 2021 – see my winning entry
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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  1. 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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  2. 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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  5. 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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  8. 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.

    I would like to advertise our website: https://altruisto.com which is a landing page for a browser extension that allows its users to collect money for effective, research-backed charities while shopping online (with no extra costs for them). For every $4.85 raised for Against Malaria Foundation two people are protected from malaria (via bed nets) and for every $1.19 raised for Schistosomiasis Control Initiative one child gets cured from parasites. It works with over 1000 shops including eBay, Aliexpress, Etsy, Microsoft.

    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,
    Daniel

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  10. 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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    • 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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  17. 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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  18. Welcome
    You run a very curious and interesting blog
    I wish you keep it up
    Greets you with Polish Lukasz

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  24. 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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  25. 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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  26. 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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  29. 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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  32. 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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  33. 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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  35. 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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  36. 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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  37. 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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  39. 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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