The Patna was a local steamer as old as the hills, lean like a greyhound, and eaten up with rust worse than a condemned water-tank. The beginning of Lord Jim's troubled journey

Early morning as the fog clears, Greenwich Park

The calligraphy in the main dome of Hagia Sophia is The Verse of Light — the 35th verse of the 24th surah of the Quran: "Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth".

Walking on Oxleas Woods, appreciating Autumn

A memory of a garden in late spring with the iPhone

Autumn is upon us...

This self portrait should in fact have a subtitle "After Ricardo Perez Alcalá", a Bolivian artist considered to be one of the best aquarellist of Latin America, born in 1939 and died 2013, born in Potosí, Bolivia. In his later years he stated: 'I used to paint what I saw, I now paint what I imagine', very close to my own perception of 'not WHAT I see but HOW I see it'

Early may colours with the bright yellow rape seed fields