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Photo essay

Photo essay

Collects all my posts where the photos illustrate a short essay. (Or sometimes the essay explains the photos.) These posts are photo-rich but tend to have more text than photos. A lot also turn up under Stops and Stories.

Scary Monsters and Museum Night Fever

18 September, 20199 March, 2016

An evening of scary monsters, strange objects, and a night out at several museums which have stepped “out of their usual context” for the evening.

Categories Exhibition, Photo essay, Stops and Stories
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Graffiti and frescoes in Florence

23 February, 201910 February, 2016

Florentine graffiti: some people like it, some hate it. Here are some examples that I liked and photographed during my visit at the beginning of November 2015.

Categories Photo essay, Stops and Stories

Drawing the Bottom Line in Ghent

18 September, 201927 January, 2016

It’s very dull, misty, grey and monochrome in Belgium at present so we choose to visit the Bottom Line – an exhibition of drawing – in Ghent.

Categories Exhibition, Photo essay, Stops and Stories
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Stories from the sleeping place

23 February, 201920 January, 2016

A photo visit to the cemetery at Ixelles (aka Elsene), the sleeping place for many Belgian dead and the resting place of many stories.

Categories Photo essay, Stops and Stories
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Paris, photos and terror – a meditation

22 February, 201918 November, 2015

Paris: A look back to a visit Mrs SC and I made in May, a photo essay and some thoughts about the recent terror attack there.

Categories Photo essay, Stops and Stories
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Belgium’s national holiday – 21st July

24 February, 201922 July, 2015

In which we contemplate a series of photos taken during Belgian’s national holiday to celebrate independence on Tuesday 21 July 2015.

Categories Photo essay, Stops and Stories

Photography – overcoming photo-block

16 April, 201917 June, 2015

In which we take a camera on a photography walk through Brussels parks Duden and Vorst and try to overcome an unexpected photo-block.

Categories Images, Photo essay, Stops and Stories

The Royal Greenhouses at Laeken

18 May, 20178 May, 2015

A stop in Brussels to visit the Royal Greenhouses at Laeken – crowded and tiring but fascinating and resulting in a satisfactory crop of photos.

Categories Photo essay, Stops and Stories
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An Easter walk in Hisingspark

29 January, 201916 April, 2015

A walk in Hisingspark in a short series of photos taken on Easter Sunday walk with our friend Lena and Aliz the border collie.

Categories Photo essay, Stops and Stories
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Literary photos

11 May, 201925 March, 2015

Literary photos, including John Betjeman at St Pancras and Sherlock Holmes on the tiles at Baker Street, from my recent visit to England.

Categories At the Quill, Photo essay, Stops and Stories
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Childhood, the latest edition of The Poet magazine, includes two of my poems
Far Flung: An anthology of stories, articles and poems - published in November 2020 - includes two of my short stories and a poem.

You may also like to read my blog post about Far Flung and about my writers group.

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