nature & scenery

Under a beautiful evening sky we were heading from St Meryn to Padstow for dinner.

The beautiful north coast of Cornwall at Bedruthan. HFF to everyone. Have a great weekend.

I made a stopover in Anchorage when on the return trip to Indonesia after a meeting in New York. I had the whole day - my plane didn't depart until the evening - so rented a car and drove north on Highway 1 & into the mountains.

The second time I visited was as a tourist with my wife & this time we flew from Jakarta to the Pulau Seribu (the aptly-named Thousand Islands) in the Java Sea by light aircraft. The Pulau Seribu are actually a string of 105 coral reef-fringed islands stretching 45 kilometres north into the Java Sea.

A traditional Yemeni village near Sana'a. The stone construction of the houses blends perfectly with the rocks of the mountains. The green irrigated areas are mainly vegetables and maybe some qat fields. Jessops screwed up the developing of my slide film by treating it as a colour negative film instead. The colours were hardly life-like and the resolution low. I have spend some time in PhotoShop almost retrieving the colour but can do nothing about the resolution.

Blue Remembered Hills. Looking eastwards over the Shan Highlands from the aircraft flying us from Yangon to Heho. The mountains extend into western Thailand.

The wisteria in my garden is in full bloom!

Looking north from Symonds Yat Rock as the River Wye makes a broad loop through the limestone hills on the northern flank of the Forest of Dean. We were on our way back from a holiday in Cornwall and made a one night stopover in the Forest of Dean.

Liquid Gold. Sunset over Porthmissen Beach Trevone, near Padstow.