Top: World's first 360-degree Panorama of Ushguli, Svaneti, Georgia, Feb 24/2009, from 12 separate photos...

Sunday, 8 August 2010

Etseri, Svaneti, Georgia, July 2010

Waltz, spin

Etseri view

Ruined house again, open to the sky

Friday, 6 August 2010

Etseri, Svaneti, Georgia, July 2010

Happy 20th Christine! (left)

Swinger

Long-ruined house, tragedy

Wednesday, 4 August 2010

Etseri, Svaneti, Georgia, July 2010

Views around Etseri fom a high vantage point - top, the hamlet where we stayed a month recently, a favourite haunt

Monday, 2 August 2010

Etseri, Svaneti, Georgia, July 2010

View back the way we came, towards Zugdidi

Young hen in the hand... worth any 2 in the bush, being chased, avoiding capture at any cost though all I want to do is put them safe into their box for the night

Fallen leaf, cherry, I think

Saturday, 31 July 2010

Etseri, Svaneti, Georgia, July 2010

3 more from a favourite village of mine in this province

Thursday, 29 July 2010

Etseri, Svaneti, Georgia, July 2010

3 country landscapes in this magnificent mountain land

Tuesday, 27 July 2010

Samtskhe-Javakheti, Georgia, June 2010

Beautiful land

Hot spring bliss

Fortress perch


Saturday, 24 July 2010

Samtskhe-Javakheti, Georgia, June 2010

Now THAT'S what I call a railway bridge!

Enjoying an unmarked, empty, ugly but very comfortable and welcome hot spring 1 km from Vardzia cave complex

Khertvisi Fortress


Wednesday, 21 July 2010

Samtskhe-Javakheti, Georgia, June 2010

More from the pass near Bakuriani, love it when the weather obliges

Sunday, 18 July 2010

Samtskhe-Javakheti, Georgia, June 2010

Views from the pass near Bakuriani - the road up to it had been very close with clouds, but then they gave way to some intriguing landscapes, like the top one, complete with sheep

Thursday, 15 July 2010

Kakheti, Georgia, May 2010

Sunset over the grapevines

Bucket of guinea-fowl chicks gathered for bedtime

Sleepy chicken chick


Monday, 12 July 2010

Kakheti, Georgia, May 2010

This is where the chicks - guinea-fowl and chicken - sleep at night

Twig broom

Final running guinea-fowl for now, I promise


Friday, 9 July 2010

Kakheti, Georgia, May 2010

More guinea-fowl running away from the lens! But the week-old bird in the hand proverbially is worth any two of these!

Tuesday, 6 July 2010

Kakheti, Georgia, May 2010

Back to Georgia at last, on May 20, & then almost straight away to Lali's family in East Georgia. This is the country's main grape and wine region, which has just hosted an annual international wine conference, at which a kvevri (clay wine container) from the 6th century, and another with a 4-tonne capacity, were displayed). Here are some scenes from Lali's parents' vineyard, early grape buds

Saturday, 3 July 2010

Scotland & England, May 2010

Swans, Stirling University

Another repro gargoyle, nr. Liverpool

Copper beech leaves, Shropshire


Wednesday, 30 June 2010

Hanmer, Wales, & Shropshire, England, May 2010

Just reflections

Copper beech leaves

Two Hanmers at the family's coat-of-arms

Sunday, 27 June 2010

United Kingdom, May 2010

Top: some faithfully copied gargoyles at a friend's house near Liverpool, England

Middle: Landscape near Dunblane, Scotland

Bottom: Stirling Castle, Scotland