Tall Ships Race

Boats participating in the Tall Ships Race are in Stavanger this weekend, moored in the harbour.
Left click to see this panorama in more detail.

Deck chair

In memoriam

These flowers and candles have been placed on the steps of Stavanger cathedral and on the waters of Breiavatnet for those who were killed in the Oslo bombing, and for those shot dead on Utøya last Friday.

Veysonnaz

Taken from Haute Nendaz

Lightning #2

Light painting

What fun can be had with a red torch on a dark night!
These "light painting" shots required 30 second exposures and two willing assistants.

White

So I'm guessing that white is the new .... er ..... white!

Cannes #5

This particular image summed up the Cannes experience for me: a couple sit on the pavement eating a McDonald's takeaway next to a marina full of million-dollar yachts with the Palais des Festivals in the background.

Pavement cafe #3

Cannes

Abbaye de Lérins #4

Abbaye de Lérins #3

Abbaye de Lérins #2

Abbaye de Lérins

L'Abbaye de Lérins, a working monastery, on the Ile Saint Honorat

Cannes #4

View from the castle in Cannes across the bay towards l'Esterel

Hôtel de ville

Cannes town hall

Sainte Marguerite

View from the island of Sainte Marguerite looking towards the mainland

Cannes #3

Cannes seafront #2

Cannes #2

Definitely not Torquay!

Cannes seafront

Some people think Cannes looks a bit like Torquay.

Backstreet #2

Cannes

Smart!

This cute vehicle was spotted in a fashionable street in Cannes.

Harbour by night

Long exposure of Cannes harbour at night showing the lights of a small boat manoevering.

Backstreet

A typical backstreet in Cannes

Cannes

Hafið Bláa

Perlan

Iceland #6

Gullfoss

Bjarnarhöfn

Krysuvik

I discovered that it's not easy to photograph boiling mud without your lens steaming up or your shoes melting.