Bertrom.

These women have pushed boundaries, told new stories and changed the way we see the world.
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Happy International Women's Day.

Give To Gain.

Richmond Park, one of London's eight Royal Parks, covering 2500 acres and home to ancient trees, and herds of deer.
Sadly we only covered a small area in our walk today.

Richmond Park walk today.

It is Claire.
Very.

Off road.

Out of tune.

Grant Wood.

Woman with Plants.

1929.
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Funchal.

Just arrived in London by train.

Animated train travel.

Liverpool to Euston.

200 km/h.

Train time..

Dvořák The Water Goblin.
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto.
Beethoven Symphony No.6, ‘Pastoral’.

Ariane Matiakh conductor and 
Diana Tischenko violin.

What a wonderful evening.
Diana Tischenko was astonishing.

Happy World Book Day 2026.

I was a ‘book giver’ when it was World Book Night back in the day. I chose a book from a long list and they sent 25+ copies of the book to me to give away. It was great fun and lovely to share reading with people I had never met before.

My pilgrimage to Anglesey.

A magical journey for me.

Ernst Haeckel.

Art Forms in Nature, Plate 83: Lichenes.

Alain Le Garsmeur.

Twins, Manhattan, New York City, 1973.

Blue Stack Mountains farmers inside their cottage, Donegal,
1978.

Women at the Village St Clair Fete, Normandy, France, 1980.

August bank holiday sunbathers on Blackpool North Pier, Lancashire, 1981.

I love Francesca Woodman.
I remember being incredibly moved by her work when I visited Tate Liverpool a few years ago. What a brave woman she was. So vulnerable.

Johannes Vermeer.

View of Houses in Delft.

c.1660.

Mary Ellen Mark.

The Man Who Won the Moustache Contest.
Istanbul.

Turkey.

1965.

‘The camera is my weapon of choice’: Gordon Parks’ era-defining shots of segregation – and those who defied it — The Guardian The visionary photographer captured the ugliness of racism in America, as well as the strength and dignity of those who opposed it – from cleaners in the corridors of power to Martin Luther King Jr pr...

“A portrait of Ella Watson, the part-time cleaner in the nation’s capital as she raised her grandchildren alone in poverty. Watson’s father had been murdered by a lynch mob and her husband was shot dead two days before the birth of their second daughter.”
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I am sorry to hear that Juanita.
It does get better. ☁️

Issei Suda.

Born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1940, Suda began his career photographing avant-garde theatre in the late-1960s, before becoming a freelance photographer.

I remember it well Mhairi !

Wandering lonely.

I know exactly what you mean Cathy…

Indeed Andrew.
So eclectic.

Peter Mitchell.

Scarecrows.

For decades he has been photographing the scarecrows in fields around his native Leeds.

“Photography is an art of observation. It has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”

Elliott Erwitt.