Category: Travel
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Artful food, glorious food
Betel leaves and fish on sale at the market in Magwe, Myanmar The colours, the textures, the shapes, the considered placement of objects, creation of forms and the patterns definitely spoke to the artist within. Artistic flair flourishes in the most unexpected places, just waiting for an artist and photographer to see more than food,…
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Farewell Edinburgh: back to the drawing board
There’s always time for one last photo when you’re waiting to catch a tram to the airport. These three Billboards erected on the corner of St Andrews Square in the Newtown, Edinburgh caught my eye on our final day in the United Kingdom. Featuring rubbish jokes and an Aussie performer at the Festival they somehow…
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Loch na Droma Buidhe Inner Hebredes
Don’t expect constant sunshine if you do a small boat tour of the Inner Hebredes. Feel wind as it chases the clouds the across the sky. See the shadows slide over the landscape when the sun breaks through. Notice the shapes created by tonal patterning and hue of warmer yellow greens against darker blue greens. …
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Hiking in Devon: the look
The group of cheerful women staying at Meadowlea B&B our in Okehampton epitomise English trampers. Their well-worn comfortable kit consists of an assortment of layers and styles paired with sturdy boots. Their bearing says ‘I am part of this landscape, comfortable in traversing it, and confident in my capacity to do so’. Then there’s me,…