Difficult to pin down what is créole architecture taste in La Réunion but it’s easy to recognise: there’s the preference for a three-window pattern and a building design based on square, the choice of colours is distinctive. Residences of the petits-blancs (white settlers) have more restrained colours and more architectural detail.
The gardens of Hell-Bourg are similarly diverse. Almost all flowering plants are imports; the tree ferns are imports that have become indigenous. There’s a striking absence of garden versions of plants used for agriculture, so I didn’t notice any flowering ginger, coffee or sugar cane.
More photos: Architecture & gardens of Hell-Bourg, Cirque de Salazie, Île de la Réunion
Candy floss pink dawn over Skiddaw (931 m.) was the start of a photographically rewarding day hiking the snow on Latrigg (368 m.). Encountering a family of Roe Deer was special, I’ve not seen them this far down before. I walked home to shelter from a chill wind and sleet shower, I resumed my day out, but on my mountain bike.
More photos: Hiking Latrigg in the snow - Lake District National Park
Birk Beck and Greenholme in Cumbria, seen from the Birkbeck viaduct on the West Coast Main Line. Shap Fell in the distance. Lying snow here at 200 m. altitude. Birk Beck is a tributary of the River Lune.
Embracing the chilling mist that softens shapes and makes distance mysterious; perspective changes and diffusion deletes detail, People and animals keep going, seemingly regardless of reduced visibility. Photographers often seek to minimise mist, in this set I’m seeking to feature the fog.
A set of photos from a walk in the mist around Hollingbury hill fort, Brighton.
More photos: Embrace the mist: Hollingbury - South Downs National Park