Lock-down memories
Unable to get out because of the lock-down, we thought we’d have a look at what we were doing this time last year. Here is an encounter we had with…
Playing and experimenting
The strict lockdown lasted all of April which meant we were unable to leave the house except for essential food shopping. Being restricted in this way meant that photography had…
Vivid petals
The Covid-19 quarantine began in the middle of the month but luckily we had been out and about before then, taking pictures of early geraniums such as this one. Geraniums…
Evening at Lake Iznájar
Our villa photography takes us all around Andalucía and this time we were in the Subbética de Cordoba region. It had a been a successful day’s shoot but now it…
Who left the lens in the car?
Picturesque villages in Andalucían Spain have one disadvantage for a photographer—the access. More often than not the villa we are shooting is at the bottom of a pretty, but steep…
Sweet chestnuts
Autumn is particularly stunning in Las Alpujarras. The leaves of the many species of broad-leafed trees show their colours: gold, red and brown against the clear blue sky. The villages…
Distant wedding
A very good friend invited us to his wedding in Zaragoza – right up in the north! It was great to go to a traditional Spanish wedding and to visit…
Craggy rocks and vultures
On a recent trip to Gaucin, we came across a large outcrop of granite rocks way up above the rolling hillside. Seeing a “kettle” of vultures we just had to…
Popping poppies
It is a great time of year to go on walks. The weather is not yet too hot, and the roadsides are abundant with life. These poppies were all along…
