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-Arizona

Ringing the Changes

Approaching Sedona from the south, through Oak Creek Canyon, the eponymous Bell Rock is impossible to miss.  A butte, composed of horizontally bedded sedimentary rock of the Permian Supai Formation, it stands 1468 m. tall.  […]

-Canaries

Mount Teide in the Pink

In honour of the Pink Saturday meme and the unusually hot summer we are having in the UK, I thought I’d have fun with one of my cooler photos.  Here […]

-Ireland

F is for… Famine

The Great Famine in Ireland in the mid-nineteenth century was a period of mass starvation, disease and emigration that had a huge impact on Ireland’s demographic, political and cultural future. In total, […]

Photos

Rare Lobelia

Normally I think of Lobelia hanging in baskets and cascading over window boxes, but this one has a more exciting life; you can see it below perched on the cliff […]

City break

Vintage Car Rally

A Vintage Car Rally takes place annually (normally March) from Barcelona to Sitges. The rally first took place in 1959 ( a very good vintage if I say so myself […]

-Botswana

Bridges in the Okavango Delta

The Okavango Delta in northern Botswana is one of the largest inland deltas on Earth, competing with the Sudd on the Nile in South Sudan, and the Inner Niger Delta in Mali.  It is effectively the flooded northern […]

Rhino

Rhino in the Wild

This is the first of what will undoubtedly be many posts about my recent holiday in Africa.  I was lucky enough to spot the Big Five.  This white rhino was […]

-Japan

Himeji Castle, Japan

Himeji Castle (姫路城) is a hilltop Japanese castle situated in Himeji, in the Hyōgo Prefecture of Japan. Dating from 1333, it consists of 83 buildings with defensive systems from the feudal period. The stunning whit building towers over […]

-London

Brainless

These beautiful textures are from this wooden carving on board the Golden Hinde, docked near London Bridge. Posted as part of Sonel’s Black & White Challenge: Texture.