We were 4 photographers from Latin America at the Latin American Salon: yours truly, Diego Echevers Torrez with a collection of outstanding portraits, Rosa Gauditano's reportage on Luiz Inácio Lula and the 70's Brazil; and Andrés Rozo Samer's experimental abstractions.

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".

Continuing with my second Still Life...

Vising Smithfield Market at the weekend, I came across this wonderful church: the Priory Church of St. Bartholomew, founded in AD 1123. as part of a monastery of Augustinian Canons. Bartholomew was one of the Twelve Apostles, brought to Jesus by Saint Philip. He is reputed to have brought Christianity to Armenia where tradition states that he was later flayed alive and crucified head down.

A friend changed the slates of the roof for tiles. I picked up a couple that ended up very useful as backgrounds and textures.

Still Life...

Another iPhone image for the lack of my camera...

Autumn... Kent... A contribution to the panoply of autumnal photography.

A castle has existed on the site since 857. The present castle dates mostly from the 19th century. It has been open to the public since 1976.