I got back from 3 weeks there on Friday. I did the whole trip with a 20-70mm on FF, a small 40mm prime, and a good smartphone (iPhone 16) which in many situations is now much more useful than a proper camera, imo, esp. cos video. Take a polarizer. Hope you have a fab time, it’s a v lovely place.
23.02.2026 22:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A slow afternoon in Galle, where it is indeed drowsy and very humid. Sri Lanka, February 2026. #Sleep #EastCoastKin #TravelPhotography #SriLanka #Galle
A slow afternoon in Galle, where it is indeed drowsy and very humid. Sri Lanka, February 2026.
#Sleep
#EastCoastKin
#TravelPhotography
#SriLanka
#Galle
This Malabar Pied Hornbill, a rather majestic bird, is said to have lost his mate (they pair for life) and has now taken to hanging around forlornly by the ancient Kiri Wehera temple in the pilgrimage town of Kataragama. Sri Lanka, February 2026. #TravelPhotography #SriLanka #Buddhism #Birds
This Malabar Pied Hornbill, a rather majestic bird, is said to have lost his mate (they pair for life) and has now taken to hanging around forlornly by the ancient Kiri Wehera temple in the pilgrimage town of Kataragama. Sri Lanka, February 2026.
#TravelPhotography
#SriLanka
#Buddhism
#Birds
A little bit of both. A dual Buddhist-Hindu village shrine. Sri Lanka, February 2026. #TravelPhotography #SriLanka #Buddhism #Hinduism
A little bit of both. A dual Buddhist-Hindu village shrine. Sri Lanka, February 2026.
#TravelPhotography
#SriLanka
#Buddhism
#Hinduism
Offerings in Buddhist temples. Sunlight grew the flowers. Sri Lanka, February 2026. #BlueSkyArtShow #Sunlight #EastCoastKin #TravelPhotography #SriLanka
Offerings in Buddhist temples. Sunlight grew the flowers. Sri Lanka, February 2026. #BlueSkyArtShow #Sunlight #EastCoastKin #TravelPhotography #SriLanka
Offerings in Buddhist temples. Sunlight grew the flowers. Sri Lanka, February 2026. #BlueSkyArtShow #Sunlight #EastCoastKin #TravelPhotography #SriLanka
Offerings in Buddhist temples. Sunlight grew the flowers. Sri Lanka, February 2026.
#BlueSkyArtShow
#Sunlight
#EastCoastKin
#TravelPhotography
#SriLanka
A temple offering in Kandy, Sri Lanka. How empty and unsavoury the machinations of the tech bros and the politicians seem compared to this one simple bloom and its significance. February, 2026. #TravelPhotography #SriLanka #Buddhism
A temple offering in Kandy, Sri Lanka. How empty and unsavoury the machinations of the tech bros and the politicians seem compared to this one simple bloom and its significance. February, 2026.
#TravelPhotography
#SriLanka
#Buddhism
Definitely a slow Sunday. Colombo, 1 February 2026. #Stunday #EastCoastKin #TravelPhotography #SriLanka
Definitely a slow Sunday. Colombo, 1 February 2026.
#Stunday
#EastCoastKin
#TravelPhotography
#SriLanka
Perhaps there are no clouds on the horizon for this couple. Colombo, 31 January 2026. #BlueSkyArtShow #Clouds #EastCoastKin #TravelPhotography #SriLanka
Perhaps there are no clouds on the horizon for this couple. Colombo, 31 January 2026.
#BlueSkyArtShow
#Clouds
#EastCoastKin
#TravelPhotography
#SriLanka
A little bit of nothing in the wide wide blue. Made this morning.
#scape
#artchallenges
#photography
#eastcoastkin
#beachscape
Thank you! A beautiful place.
26.01.2026 08:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hoar frost on every blade, leaf and twig at Rousham House, near Lower Heyford in Oxfordshire. This is in January three years ago and it hasn’t been as cold since. #BlueSkyArtShow #Cold #LandscapePhotography #Oxfordshire
Hoar frost on every blade, leaf and twig at Rousham House, near Lower Heyford in Oxfordshire. This is in January three years ago and it hasn’t been as cold since. #BlueSkyArtShow #Cold #LandscapePhotography #Oxfordshire
Hoar frost on every blade, leaf and twig at Rousham House, near Lower Heyford in Oxfordshire. This is in January three years ago and it hasn’t been as cold since. #BlueSkyArtShow #Cold #LandscapePhotography #Oxfordshire
Hoar frost on every blade, leaf and twig at Rousham House, near Lower Heyford in Oxfordshire. This is in January three years ago and it hasn’t been as cold since.
#BlueSkyArtShow
#Cold
#LandscapePhotography
#Oxfordshire
My kind of Board of Peace, for it is indeed a very peaceful scene. Moo. Oxfordshire, January 2026. #LandscapePhotography #EastCoastKin #Oxfordshire #Cows
My kind of Board of Peace, for it is indeed a very peaceful scene. Moo. Oxfordshire, January 2026.
#LandscapePhotography
#EastCoastKin
#Oxfordshire
#Cows
If it is ignorance, there is no excuse for it. More likely in his case is the compulsive need to humiliate and to be cruel overriding everything else. We see it almost daily now, egged on by his cronies. No decent person disrespects those who’ve laid it on the line for their country.
23.01.2026 12:18 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Thick mist, stillness and calm, a mysterious morning in Blenheim Park today. Oxfordshire, 18 January 2026. #LandscapePhotography #EastCoastKin #BlenheimPalace #Oxfordshire #Stunday
Thick mist, stillness and calm, a mysterious morning in Blenheim Park today. Oxfordshire, 18 January 2026. #LandscapePhotography #EastCoastKin #BlenheimPalace #Oxfordshire #Stunday
Thick mist, stillness and calm, a mysterious morning in Blenheim Park today. Oxfordshire, 18 January 2026. #LandscapePhotography #EastCoastKin #BlenheimPalace #Oxfordshire #Stunday
Thick mist, stillness and calm, a mysterious morning in Blenheim Park today. Oxfordshire, 18 January 2026.
#LandscapePhotography
#EastCoastKin
#BlenheimPalace
#Oxfordshire
#Stunday
A grey day today, so here is some lovely afternoon winter light across Oxford and the Thames from last Friday, 9 January 2026. #LandscapePhotography #EastCoastKin #Oxford #AfternoonLight
A grey day today, so here is some lovely afternoon winter light across Oxford and the Thames from last Friday, 9 January 2026. #LandscapePhotography #EastCoastKin #Oxford #AfternoonLight
A grey day today, so here is some lovely afternoon winter light across Oxford and the Thames from last Friday, 9 January 2026.
#LandscapePhotography
#EastCoastKin
#Oxford
#AfternoonLight
Early morning along the ghats at Varanasi in India. November 2024. #BlueSkyArtShow #Vibrant #TravelPhotography #India
Early morning along the ghats at Varanasi in India. November 2024.
#BlueSkyArtShow
#Vibrant
#TravelPhotography
#India
An appreciation of the great Swiss photographer Werner Bischof. His gentle images stay with one, I think.
#Photography
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A dab of colour across the Thames on a rather sullen winter’s day. Oxford, January 2026. #LandscapePhotography #EastCoastKin #Oxford
A dab of colour across the Thames on a rather sullen winter’s day. Oxford, January 2026.
#LandscapePhotography
#EastCoastKin
#Oxford
A year in South America where the only realistic communication home was a monthly letter that took three weeks to arrive or, in emergency, hoping to get lucky and find a telex machine in a capital city.
09.01.2026 10:41 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Thank you!
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Grey views on a grey misty morning around Christchurch Meadow, and hardly anyone around. #BlackandWhitePhotography #ClassicMono #LandscapePhotography #Oxford
Grey views on a grey misty morning around Christchurch Meadow, and hardly anyone around. #BlackandWhitePhotography #ClassicMono #LandscapePhotography #Oxford
Grey views on a grey misty morning around Christchurch Meadow, and hardly anyone around. #BlackandWhitePhotography #ClassicMono #LandscapePhotography #Oxford
Grey views on a grey misty morning around Christchurch Meadow, and hardly anyone around. #BlackandWhitePhotography #ClassicMono #LandscapePhotography #Oxford
Grey views on a grey misty morning around Christchurch Meadow, and hardly anyone around. Oxford, 8 January 2026.
#BlackandWhitePhotography
#ClassicMono
#LandscapePhotography
#Oxford
Lovely light in Blenheim Park on this cold, crisp Sunday. Oxfordshire, January 2026. #LandscapePhotography #EastCoastKin #BlenheimPalace #Oxfordshire #Stunday
Lovely light in Blenheim Park on this cold, crisp Sunday. Oxfordshire, January 2026. #LandscapePhotography #EastCoastKin #BlenheimPalace #Oxfordshire #Stunday
Lovely light in Blenheim Park on this cold, crisp Sunday. Oxfordshire, January 2026. #LandscapePhotography #EastCoastKin #BlenheimPalace #Oxfordshire #Stunday
Lovely light in Blenheim Park on this cold, crisp Sunday. Oxfordshire, January 2026.
#LandscapePhotography
#EastCoastKin
#BlenheimPalace
#Oxfordshire
#Stunday
Merry Christmas to one and all! It’s bright sunny and crisp here today, a couple of degrees above freezing. We’ve been on a stroll through the village where at least one crabapple is still blazing away. And now for lunch …
Merry Christmas to one and all! It’s bright sunny and crisp here today, a couple of degrees above freezing. We’ve been on a stroll through the village where at least one crabapple is still blazing away. And now for lunch …
Merry Christmas to one and all! It’s bright sunny and crisp here today, a couple of degrees above freezing. We’ve been on a stroll through the village where at least one crabapple is still blazing away. And now for lunch …
25.12.2025 13:03 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A handsome hound, with a hand and some grapes above, from a statue of Bacchus attributed to John van Nost and dating from the early eighteenth century. Rousham House, Oxfordshire, December 2025. #Oxfordshire #BlackandWhitePhotography #ClassicMono #Bacchus
A handsome hound, with a hand and some grapes above, from a statue of Bacchus attributed to John van Nost and dating from the early eighteenth century. Rousham House, Oxfordshire, December 2025.
#Oxfordshire
#BlackandWhitePhotography
#ClassicMono
#Bacchus
A cold, grey morning for a stroll around Christ Church Meadow, with some flooding after recent rains. Oxford, 23 December 2025. #Oxford #BlackandWhitePhotography #ClassicMono #LandscapePhotography
A cold, grey morning for a stroll around Christ Church Meadow, with some flooding after recent rains. Oxford, 23 December 2025.
#Oxford
#BlackandWhitePhotography
#ClassicMono
#LandscapePhotography
The book of the year
21.12.2025 19:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The feathery winter crown of a beech. Blenheim Park, Oxfordshire, December 2025. #Oxfordshire #BlenheimPalace #ClassicMono #BlackandWhitePhotography #Stunday
The feathery winter crown of a beech. Blenheim Park, Oxfordshire, December 2025.
#Oxfordshire
#BlenheimPalace
#ClassicMono
#BlackandWhitePhotography
#Stunday
A lion attacking a horse, a sculpture by Peter Scheemakers dating to about 1740, at Rousham House. The savagery of the work contrasts with the serene surroundings of William Kent’s eighteenth-century garden. Oxfordshire, 19 December 2025. #BlueSkyArtShow #OpenHouse #ClassicMono #Oxfordshire
A lion attacking a horse, a sculpture by Peter Scheemakers dating to about 1740, at Rousham House. The savagery of the work contrasts with the serene surroundings of William Kent’s eighteenth-century garden. Oxfordshire, 19 December 2025.
#BlueSkyArtShow
#OpenHouse
#ClassicMono
#Oxfordshire
Expectant chickens. The door remained firmly closed so far as I could tell. But no matter, the sun was shining. Barbu d'Uccle bantams at Rousham House, Oxfordshire, 19 December 2025. #Oxfordshire #Chickens #RareBreeds #Photography
Expectant chickens.
The door remained firmly closed so far as I could tell. But no matter, the sun was shining. Barbu d'Uccle bantams at Rousham House, Oxfordshire, 19 December 2025.
#Oxfordshire
#Chickens
#RareBreeds
#Photography
Flooding along the River Cherwell at Lower Heyford after Thursday’s deluges. And today is a beautiful sunny one. Oxfordshire, 19 December 2025. #Oxfordshire #LandscapePhotography
Flooding along the River Cherwell at Lower Heyford after Thursday’s deluges. And today is a beautiful sunny one. Oxfordshire, 19 December 2025.
#Oxfordshire
#LandscapePhotography
