Inline!

I've been doing a bit of inline skating since Natalie decided I had to go with her 7 or
so years ago. This was taken at Mission Bay near San Diego during our holiday there
in 2005. We did loads of skating around there especially in the Venice Beach area.
Reminds me I must lose some weight!

Bird of Paradise Flower

The Strelitzia or Bird of Paradise Flower is a very striking flower which grows in many
sunny, warm climates around the world. I photographed this one at Pearl Harbour in
Hawaii.

Matterhorn

I've spent two weeks skiing in Zermatt over the last couple of years, it's one of
my favourite skiing resorts. Over the town and the slopes towers the majestic
Matterhorn.

City centre cycle racing

The Tour Series comes to Peterborough again in a couple of
weeks. It's quite exciting to watch them race at high speed
around the city centre. This is a photograph I took of last
year's race.

Duke Kahanamoku

Duke Kahanamoku was a famous Hawaian surfer and gold
medal winning olympic swimmer. This impressive statue
of him is on the edge of Kuhio Beach at Waikiki on Oahu,
Hawaii.

London Stereotype.

Back to London, from Sunday's visit. This could almost come
from one of the touristy T shirts that you can buy on every
street corner there.

Avignon Festival

Avignon is a great place and I've stayed there a couple of times.
In 2006 my stay was during the annual festival which couples artistic
performance and street entertainment. This guy attracted a pretty
big audience in the Place de l'Horloge.

London scorcher!

Although I spend quite a bit of time in London it's for work and I don't see much of the
sights. I spent yesteday though going around many of them on a very hot day. This is
a view of the Millenium footbridge with St Paul's in the background.

Olive

My grandmother's name was Olive, she only died 6 years ago at
94 years old. By chance one of my favourite plants in my
garden is this standard olive bought for me by my daughter last
year. Taken this afternoon on a great, warm, sunny day.

Gardening tomorrow!

It's going to be a great weekend here and as I'm away on Sunday tomorrow is a
gardening day. I need to get it looking as good as in this photo taken last June.

Ginger

This flower is a Ginger which is a family of tropical flowers,
I took this photo at the Garden of Eden Arboretum on
Maui. To me the colours look quite surreal.

Art on art

I took this shot a month or so back whilst I had a tour around some of the villages to
the west of Peterborough. This is in Duddington and the bridge is over the River Welland.

Cypriot fishermen unloading their catch

I found watching these fishermen in Paphos harbour unloading their catch interesting
and managed to get a few shots. This one showing a large open mouthed tuna being
unloaded is the best.

Sheringham

Sheringham is my favourite local seaside resort. It's on the
North Norfolk coast about 80 miles from here. Over the last
30 years I've been there many, many times. I took this photo
from the cliffs last summer.

Crowland Abbey

Crowland is only a few miles from where I live and I had a
short stroll around late this afternoon. The Abbey is quite
spectacular with the ruins of the old nave remaining
alongside the existing parish church.

Outtersteene

My grandmother lost all 4 of her older brothers during or very soon after WW1. I
visited the grave of one of them in Outtersteene in Northern France in 2007. The
war cemeteries there, and there are very many of them, are extremely moving.

Refections of Paphos

I loved the reflection in the water of the bridge leading to the fort in the harbour
at Paphos in Cyprus. I took way too many photos, by day, by dusk, by night of
that fairly plain old fort.

Panorama

I've been playing around making panoramic pictures by stitching together a number
of other photographs for 3 or 4 years now. This one is taken from Lahaina in Maui
looking towards Lanai island.

European Final

Fulham are playing in the Europa Cup final tonight, good luck to them. In 2006 I
went to the Arsenal v Barcelona Champions League final in Paris, a great, but
unfortunately unsuccessful, occasion

Florence

I first went to Florence as a 13 year old on a school trip. I then had to wait until
2007 to return. It was well worth the wait, it's a magical place. This is is a view
of the River Arno with Ponte Vecchio in the foreground.

St Botolph

Another picture from yesterday this time of St Botolph's
church in Helpston. St Botolph was a 7th century English
saint after whom Boston, Lincolnshire (and hence Boston,
Mass, US) was named.

John Clare

John Clare was a well known peasant poet in the early
part of the 19th century. He was born and lived in
Helpston near Peterborough and this memorial to him
is in the middle of the village. Taken this afternoon as I
was just driving through the village and stopped off.

Peterborough Arch

There is a lot of sculpture spread around here. This is a shot showing some
detail from Peterborough Arch by Lee Grandjean which I took last summer. I
won't be taking any photographs here today, it's dreadful; wet, cold and windy.

Memories of St Tropez.

On a pretty cold, miserable day here at home I wanted something that reminded me
of warmer times. This is a shot, taken from the hill leading up to the Citadelle,
looking over the roofs of St Tropez towards the Gulf of St Tropez. It was taken
whilst on holiday near there in 2006.

Ski Frenzy!

OK I only got back from my last skiing trip of last winter about 4
weeks ago. But I'm busy planning next winter's trips, booked a
couple more flights today. This is Natalie in Laax in Switzerland
in February.

Planes & Boats & Sunsets!

On this cold May day in Peterborough it's nice to remember the wonderful climate
and scenery of Hawaii. This is a photo of the magnificent sunset at Waikiki on Oahu
where I was lucky enough to visit a couple of years ago.