I took over 2800 photos in 2023. Actually, I took a lot more because we went on safari in the summer and I have worked hard to cull as many shots that I could from that trip. Even so, that left me with nearly 1000 pictures of wildlife that I want to keep.
Building and body beautiful (Bologna)
My selected favourites bear witness to the fact that this has very much been a year of travel – mostly to cities and mostly for work. I started and finished the year with trips to Germany. Sharped-eyed viewers will see that over the course of the last 12 months I have visited Berlin, Ballymena, Vienna, Cambridge, Brussels, Barcelona, Geneva, Auschwitz, Valencia, Kenya, Leiden, Killyleagh, Bologna, Tokyo, and Hannover – not forgetting, of course, my home town of London.
Concert Hall (Berlin)
There are cityscapes and pictures of whole buildings but I do like to try to pick out details, fragments that will give some sense of what it was like to wander the city streets. I retain also a fascination with the shapes and colours that our manufactured environment presents to the eye.
Battersea Power Station (London)
Bell ringer (Brussels)
Barcelona walker
A crowd of hippos (Masai Mara, Kenya)
Los Angeles 2019? No, Tokyo at night.
Tokyo tower in red, yellow and blue
County Down (N. Ireland)
All 90 of this year’s selection can be found on Flickr.
At first glance I took the picture of Bologna to be a snap from the Spice Girls’ reunion tour (as imagined by Francis Bacon)
It was a really clever and attractive way to display the artworks from 4 local museums.