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Posts Tagged ‘photography’
How To Make Athens Punch You In The Stomach
Go Home Again: 4 Ways To Love Where You Are
One of the best points of any journey?
The second day back home.
It’s like this. Being wise, you’ve taken an extra three or four days off work for a post-holiday holiday, just enough time to battle jet-lag and sort through the mail. The first day is all about sleeping – and on the second day, in [...]
Green Meant Busy: Amber Means Clever
Autumn is the most complicated season, the most detailed. There’s simply too much for the eye to see.
That’s why walking turns to strolling, strolling turns to sauntering. We want to slow down and look closer. Except that doesn’t simplify things at all.
(Here’s the root of all the trouble).
The Colours of 59 Degrees North
Orkney Mainland and Westray – all photos M. Sowden 2009.
Previously on “Orkney”…
I’m heading up to Orkney in a little over a week – a place I worked as an archaeologist for a couple of months, a place that’s in my blood enough to wish I’d been born there.
It’s a place where spectacles creep up on you.
(No, the other kind).
Every day is a different palette.
But archaeology is [...]
Edinburgh, Back and Forth
Arthur’s Seat and Salisbury Crags, from Edinburgh Castle.
Edinburgh Castle, from Salisbury Crags.
Salisbury Crags and Edinburgh Castle, from Arthur’s Seat
Edinburgh Tourist Board website
All photos copyright M. Sowden 2009.
Right, You’re Bannered
One thing about switching to Ravi Varma’s Wordpress template, as clean and white as a Greek wall in Plato’s head, is that I get to play with the banner.
Every time you refresh the page, you should see a new banner image. Except, not so much with the “new” thing right now: a few stock photo [...]
Nafplio: Where Home Tracked Me Down
A story of how I went abroad, and how York followed me.
June 2007
Well, I’m not sitting indoors all day. I may have just arrived, I may be recovering from the double-whammy of the worst sunburn and the worst hotel breakfast I’ve ever experienced, but I’m not kicking my heels with this paperback all day. This [...]
