Ushguli, Svaneti, Georgia

A belated Merry Christmas from Tbilisi, Georgia. 2 days ago Lali & I, house-sitting for some American friends here, hosted about 12 people from a number of countries at our first Christmas Day meal together. Great fun! Yesterday we found ourselves at the studio of Rustavi 2 TV, where I was one of the prizewinners for best programme of the year - the Ushguli 6-minute PostScriptum programme of April. (Now I'll REALLY have to get that thing subtitled & uploaded for all of you non-Georgian-speakers...)

And today I present a few more pictures from Ushguli of about 2 weeks ago. The event was the attempted capture and bridling of a filly. I used a slow shutter speed and panning - moving the camera with the direction of motion - to try to get some of the excitement of the scene. I admit to being particularly satisfied with the results.

Liverpool and Erddig, UK, July 2007

Silly me, I forgot to take more past blog images with me when I went on more travels from Somerset to near Liverpool! But, borrowing friends' digital camera, I still found new images. So, goodbye to Indonesia for the moment and hello to some UK scenes.

Top: the entrance to Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, a magnificent structure, huge and classical but made in the 2nd half of the 20th century

Next: Shop window, Liverpool Chinatown (oldest Chinatown in the UK)

Next: Liverpool Docks detail

Bottom: Mother and son, near the entrance to Erddig (pronounced Erthig, with the "th" as in "this"), an 18th century stately home in N Wales

Horse's eye, Spokane, WA, USA, November 2005

Another example of a photograph which started off as a vision - reflect a landscape in a horse's eye. My Svan cap and camera are in there too, almost exactly in the eye's centre. I took quite a few shots as one cannot tell a horse to stand perfectly still and not blink! This is the last frame.