2017: My Year in Photos

There is no doubt that my favourite post of every year is this one: the moment when, in looking back over a year of photos, I am able to consolidate the last 365 days and review an overarching visual picture of the year. There’s nothing quite so fulfilling as the recognition of a year well spent, and looking back over this year’s photos, I am able to confidently conclude that 2017 has been an extraordinary year.
It was extraordinary for many reasons, not least for the variety not only of our holidays, but of our lifestyle changes too. At the beginning of the year, we were living in Mallorca and I was working in Marketing. By the end, I am once again a hardened (but wiser) Londoner, but with an altogether more exciting role in commercial law. It was consequently a year of big changes, and not least in our home, where a total redecoration accompanied our return to the big smoke, and Farrow & Ball calke green became the indubitable shade of the season.
But if I was to remember 2017 for one thing, it would be for the breadth and diversity of our travels. 2017 saw us setting foot on African soil for the first time, and the cultural shift which resulted just a few hundred miles south of Spain is an experience which will stay with me forever. But similarly variable were the sun-baked lands of Sicily whose Eastern shores we explored in June. Whether it be the explosive volcanic soils surrounding Etna or the proliferation of baroque architecture peppering the ancient towns, Sicily was a true hot bed of unique creative and natural passions. Then there were the lush vineyards of Tuscany, the ochre glow of Aix, aperol spritz in Siena, the great stags of Windsor…
So scan your eyes over the photos above and below and bask in a glorious plethora of multicoloured captures – clear evidence of a year which punched above its weight in scintillating sites and alluring appeal. It was a year of great holidays, but also of staycations too – a warm and balmy English summer provided us with the perfect excuse to explore the leafy gardens of South West London and enjoy the very visible changes of the English seasons, from floral Spring in Battersea Park to an auburn Autumn on Clapham Common.
Now the seasonal chapter is shifting once again. Christmas is over and the days of wintery cold have just begun. But just as I reflect with relish upon this last year in its final fading hours, I look forward with anticipation to the year soon to come. New sights, news sensations, and another cycle of seasonal variations has started all over again.
- The old port of Marseille
- Moroccan Grasses
- Tongue out, Windsor Great Park
- Marseille urbanscape
- Marseille on guard
- Marseille
- Colours of Castagneto
- The Souk of Marrakech
- Marseille silhouette
- The land of Italy
- The gentle shore of Castagneto
- Italian Grasses
- Peacock majesty
- Marrakech magic
- Eton
- Do not disturb
- Andalucian moment
- Marbella abstract
- Noto baroque
- Balcony in shades of red
- Ravishing autumn
- Sleepy afternoon in Bolgheri
- Pure Tuscan Red
- Ham House
- Aperol in Siena
- Patchwork stage, Sicily
- Wimbledon Common
- Hallway at Christmas
- The Atlas Mountains
- Opulent Catania
- Tuscan landscape
- Cactus detail
- Spring arrives
- The coast at Taormina
- The Ancient Theatre
- Magnificent Malaga
- Modern lamp, Marseille
- Le Marché d’Aix
- Winter sunrise
- Battersea Park
- Battersea
- Etna rock in Ragusa
- Downtown in Marseille
- Woodpecker in London
- Tuscany at its best
- Chelsea White
- Catania fish market
- Richmond
- Sun effect
- Ragusa Ibla
- Rooftops of Tuscany
- Cassis centre
- Japan in Kew
- Birthday baroque
- Taormina’s charm
- Ortygia
- Aix-en-Provence
- Kew Hote House
- Hampton History
- Christmas at home
- Noto skyline
- A walk on the Downs
- Messy eater
- Autumn
- Marrakech Pink
- Sunset in Marseille
- St Petersburg Palace Tree
- Modica skyline
- Sicilian Baroque
- Sicilian splendour
- Mediterranean stock
- Marbella as the sun sets
- Taormina clustered
- Palma burning
- Autumn mushroom
- Tuscan Vineyard
- Marrakech spices
- The colours of Spring
- Battersea spirituality
- The mosque of Marrakech
- Moroccan gardens
- Larger than life in Marrakech
- Bedroom delight
- Modica, Sicily
- Clapham in the Autumn
- Windsor
- Sunset in Mallorca
- Rolling hills of Tuscany
- Hampstead Heath
- George III
- Sussex salutation
- Bathing of the swans
- Cassis sur la plage
- The Guard at Windsor
- Marseille’s big wheel
- Patched up Aix
- New decor, London
- The Majorelle gardens
- Chelsea Embankment
- Henry Moore at Battersea
- Siena Duomo
- Autumn leaf-bed
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The photographs are gorgeous! A fine year indeed.. Changes are always good especially if they are an improvement. Happy New Year! Cheers🎉
Great vibrant photos indeed. Happy New Year 2018! Cheers
Wonderful set of compositions.
So kind of you to say, thank you!!