An image suffused with mist over a river valley. One tree in the foreground is a sharp silhouette, contrasting with the uncertain background.
There's a lot of this around, frosty mist, muffled sounds, if any. Winter comes to revive our senses, making summer a show-off ! #alttext #amateuremigrant #riverlife
The top of the minaret of a mosque in Syria painstakingly covered in geometric mosaic.
A perfect image of the #minaret of the mosque dedicated to Zainab, a close relation of the prophet PBUH. In the hills outside #damascus , a most beautiful building. Please let peace come for all Syrians #amateuremigrant
Two poorly clad men kneel in shallow boats, mere inches from the water. It looks a tough life.
Dal Lake, Srinagar in winter. A precarious living is made by fishers and traders. With continuing bad news from #kashmir it's surely time that #India and #Pakistan allowed people to live their own lives here. #amateuremigrant #azadkashmir
Above a palace doorway, a finely chiselled design of garlands and intricate sun motif
No recollection of location other than #india possibly #jaipur from the sun motif as the focus. The really finely chiselled detail on the snakes garlands atop a doorway. What about the tiny human figures below ?You'd hardly notice it. #lookatthedetails #alttext #amateuremigrant
Low but distant clouds give a sense of extended space to the long curving beach.
No one that knows me would ever describe me as a #beachbabe 🤣 What draws me is the sense of space palpable beyond the visible #horizons This at #oldshoremore #alttext #amateuremigrant #scottishwanderlust
A couple of women in swimwear pose at the Arctic Circle in Sweden - alongside a shot of the author still in the COLD lake !
Prompted by m'learned friend Heather @explorationproject training to swim in chilly Lake Erie I felt duty bound to report the local newspaper in Sweden found the idea of tourists (mainly Brits known for eccentricity) swimming the Arctic circle highly amusing. #alttext #amateuremigrant
A simple screen in a castle wall, allowing airflow and visibility for defenders. The stone cubes are all carved into one piece of stone.
#lookatthedetails An open screen in #chittaurgarh fort, one of many you could simply walk past on a tour.
A mason’s skilful marks show how it's done. But such finesse with a hammer and chisel when cross legged in the open air surely revalues work. #alttext #amateuremigrant
A wall of mosaic tiles decoration in geometric designs, diamond shaped. Inset is a window in ‘portrait’ form, with a frieze allowing covert observation.
A window onto the world for palace inhabitants. A finely carved frieze allows private scrutiny of external events. The palace walls are covered in mosaics of #majolica tiles a forgotten skill but a fine copy 😍 #samarkand #silkroad #alttext #amateuremigrant
A detail of sandstone carving with fine replicating lines picked out by hand, hammer and chisel around a flower.
#lookatthedetails It's almost bewildering to think that this is just a small panel among thousands of others in a palace in a mogul era fort. The lotus at the centre is a powerful symbol in Hinduism, Buddhism and the female elements of creation. #alttext #amateuremigrant #agrafort
A white marble panel in an Indian Moghul era monument with black onyx Arabic cursive script giving good definition (if you can read it !)
A white marble panel. Probably in the #tajmahal #agra #arabic in cursive script, which I don't read (any helpers ?), picked out in black onyx. Each piece exactly ground on foot operated wheels and held fast for centuries by homemade glue. #alttext #amateuremigrant
A small boat, with sail raised, drifting gently down a wide river. The distant bank rises to a low tree topped ridge
The epitome of 'getting away from it all', sailing on the #Ganges A fabulous 3 day experience from #Allahabad to #Varanasi camping on sandbanks #alttext #amateuremigrant
Low houses with wide roofs on a ridge. A tall square church tower stands above them. More wooded ridges lead toward higher, snow capped peaks.
Thinking of a walking holiday ? Good - no, amazing food - well marked interesting trails (some kiddies walks too) gorges, Mediterranean scrub, snowy peaks and rushing frothy rivers. Me ? I liked #corsica This is Evisa. Really just the sort of place to end a good hike. #alttext #amateuremigrant
Low tide in a shallow bay, the lowering sun reveals rocks and sand covered with seaweed, sheltering a myriad of life beneath
A shallow coastline. I love the intertidal areas - on the coast they call it the littoral. But landscapes where interchange occurs are the most vital, the bio smell and sounds of gases in seaweed, critters unseen beneath. Lots of chances to make your own way. #alttext #amateuremigrant
View of a wall fills the frame. Built from random stones from the desert village surroundings. A small ‘window’ allows a tiny glimpse of the blue sky beyond.
A wall in Morocco, (or anywhere the norm is to make what you need from what you've got). Random stones chosen to fill spaces with a minimal amount of cement. It's nice to imagine the tiny view of the sky beyond is intentional, after all, only Allah makes things perfect. #alttext #amateuremigrant
Lawn around an Indian monument being cut by a bullock pulling a mower. One man guides the mower, a second guides the bullock.
Giving the lawn a trim. At the #itmaduddaulah a famous scheduled monument in #agra
In one view a marvellous example of making do and mending. On the other hand #underemployment makes lots of jobs which barely pay but have government security. #questionstoask #amateuremigrant #alt
Beside a large steel wheel a man is bent over wielding a rake to clear the ash from the firebox of a steam train
An #elemental sense of the raw power in #steamengines draws directly on the control of fire, in the same way that #blacksmiths were often kept outside village precincts. Raking out clinker/ ash on an engine headed up to the Indian #hillstation of Ooty in the #nilgirihills #alttext #amateuremigrant
A man stands among a flock of sheep. The man wears a hat with feathers sticking out. The local sheep have upright V shaped horns.
On the #hungarian #puszta a shepherd wanders with his flock of indigenous #racka (ratska), sheep adapted to the saline soils and temperature range of the region. #alttext #amateuremigrant
A small (10metres) tour bus parked on a track over a high arctic plateau. The sky dominates the scene.
#incongruity What a beaut of a parking spot ! 😃To get folk up the hill to start a great hike I cheekily drove a 10m bus up a 4wd track to the plateau of #finnmarksvidda #alttext #amateuremigrant #gargiafjellstue
Fields of sunflowers lead to the high outline of a castle guarding lowland between nearby hills.
One of many castles in the countryside of northern Hungary built to encourage or later suppress uprisings against Hapsburg rulers. Most are in utter ruin, but this holds fast between the Bükk and Zemplen mountains #alttext #amateuremigrant
A hall of audience shaded by trees and roof supported by finely carved pillars perched on lime washed stone to deter insects.
Carved pillars adorn an ancient audience hall in #bukhara A sense of order and of consideration is palpable. #alttext #amateuremigrant #uzbekistan A place in history replicated over the years - carved pillars are still a feature of modern buildings.
Jagged rocky peaks of Arctic Lofoten overlook a sheltered coastline of hummocks and inlets
#everydayscenes in #lofoten All life shoehorned into small flatter areas. A steep slog up #jaggedpeaks gives such startling contrast on the sheltered East coast. #kabelvåg #norway #alttext #islandlife #amateuremigrant
Looking down from the road, rail station in Norway, built of dark wood with white windows has a roof of thick turf in traditional style
From the road I spotted this amazing railway station in #Oppdal southern #norway Locals will kid you that a goat tethered there keeps the grass down. A land of myths new and old. #everydayscenes #alttext #amateuremigrant
A group of village fishermen haul a shark they have caught onto the beach
On the Indian Ocean south coast of #yemen small fishing villages still live from the sea. Not collecting shark fins for eastern appetites but food and resources from the whole animal by and for the whole #community #alttext #amateuremigrant
A sharp silhouette of trees on an outcrop stands out from a more distant hillside partly obscured by mist
I never tire of #contrast #silhouettes #ethereal but #everydayscenes in nature. This scene of clearing rain to the south of our camp in #svartisdalen #norway #alttext #amateuremigrant
Through a gap in roadside trees the sharp coastal mountains are echoed by a small church on a promontory in the foreground
The north coast of #Norway is littered with scenes to die for. You could even get 'sight-sore' !
This near #nordreisa #everydayscenes #alttext #amateuremigrant
A small farmstead in open rolling countryside, grassland liberally dotted with yellow flowers. Poles are stacked in cones, to make racks for drying hay
The poles which make the frames for hanging hay to dry are yet stacked in the field. #bucolic beauty #jamtland #sweden #amateuremigrant #alttext #everydayscenes
A man sits on the covered veranda of a vvsmall log cabin looking quite pleased
I loved staying in this cabin in #svartisdalen named Mt Rainier. Basic as you like. #alttext #everydayscenes #amateuremigrant
A stream of donkeys and horses and their owners pass through a narrow rocky defile after a day of working in a very famous archaeological site
#homewardbound 🎶 I wish I was . .
The exodus of local #bedu and Arab workers from #petra through the #siq Get home and get a brew on ! #amateuremigrant #alttext #everydayscenes
A series of interlocked stairs lead to an ccornate twin spired church in Portugal
In the north of #portugal near #braga is the countries most photographed church. Bom Jesus, a magnificent building, and site of pilgrimage where some adherents climbed the huge staircase on their knees. Such things honest labour created to . . . .
You fill in the dots.
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Bright flowers in an equally colourful saucepan in a whitewashed window alcove, a common sight in Eastern Europe
#everydayscenes in Eastern Europe #geraniums or #pelargoniums - don't ask me ! Always a brilliant dash of colour artfully placed for full effect ❤️#holloko #amateuremigrant ##alttext
