Browsing Tag

photography

  • Travel blogging and the importance of detail

    Tweet Whenever I’m commissioning a writer in my day job as editor of a travel magazine I always ask them if they can get ‘detail shots’ from wherever they’re going; anyone can take photos…

    June 11, 2014
  • Happy days

    Tweet The theme of this week’s Gallery is ‘happy’. And one of my favourite photos from the past 18 months has to be this one of the Gallery owner herself, Tara Lara*, along with…

    April 30, 2014
  • My best travel photograph

    Tweet Back in January I wrote a post called ‘My Best Travel Photography so far‘; at the time, I think it probably was. But then I went to Norway and took this photo of…

    April 9, 2014
  • Morning has broken

    Tweet I took this photo one morning last week from my bedroom window, because it was the most perfect sunrise I think I’ve seen in London for a long time; it’s not enhanced in…

    March 5, 2014
  • The Moment in Time meme

    Tweet I was watching the movie About Time one night last week; it’s rather a confused film about time travel, with lots of unanswered questions. But one of the best scenes is when the…

    February 9, 2014
  • Norwegian food fest

    Tweet So this weekend it’s Nordicana 2014 in London, which is a festival of Nordic fiction and film, as well as food. Of course I love Saga and The Bridge as much as the…

    February 1, 2014
  • Stealing beauty

    Tweet I took this photo of a rose (one of my favourites) in our front garden on Sunday morning; the sky was blue (briefly), the air was crisp, and the rose looked so stunning,…

    January 22, 2014
  • My best travel photography… so far

    Tweet I was watching The Bridge II last night (bit of a late comer to The Bridge, #mybad, but The Tunnel made me want to see the original – isn’t it AMAZING? So addictive…

    January 5, 2014
  • Morning in Helsinki

    Tweet I took these photos in the Finnish capital Helsinki on our Baltic Cruise in the summer; of course the Midnight Sun means it doesn’t really get dark, but the mornings in Scandinavia and…

    December 4, 2013
  • November snapshots

    Tweet So, after what turned out to be an unexpectedly bleak October, November brought blue skies, extraordinary technicolour sunsets and the chance to catch up with some of my favourite people. We celebrated three…

    November 27, 2013