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.
- Tuscan landscape
- Sussex salutation
- Sunset in Mallorca
- Marseille on guard
- Ortygia
- Ravishing autumn
- Rolling hills of Tuscany
- Hampton History
- Marbella abstract
- Modica, Sicily
- Siena Duomo
- Downtown in Marseille
- Autumn mushroom
- Kew Hote House
- The Ancient Theatre
- Marbella as the sun sets
- Opulent Catania
- Italian Grasses
- Sicilian Baroque
- Messy eater
- Pure Tuscan Red
- Hampstead Heath
- Cassis centre
- Noto baroque
- Ragusa Ibla
- Balcony in shades of red
- Aix-en-Provence
- The colours of Spring
- Eton
- George III
- Modica skyline
- Do not disturb
- Autumn leaf-bed
- St Petersburg Palace Tree
- Etna rock in Ragusa
- Battersea
- Taormina clustered
- Catania fish market
- Spring arrives
- Tuscany at its best
- The Atlas Mountains
- Autumn
- Palma burning
- Cactus detail
- Andalucian moment
- Sicilian splendour
- Marrakech Pink
- Marseille
- The old port of Marseille
- The gentle shore of Castagneto
- The coast at Taormina
- Rooftops of Tuscany
- Noto skyline
- Moroccan Grasses
- Taormina’s charm
- Sunset in Marseille
- The Guard at Windsor
- Aperol in Siena
- Mediterranean stock
- Battersea spirituality
- Marrakech spices
- Sun effect
- A walk on the Downs
- Marseille silhouette
- Winter sunrise
- New decor, London
- Tuscan Vineyard
- Peacock majesty
- Modern lamp, Marseille
- Henry Moore at Battersea
- The mosque of Marrakech
- Larger than life in Marrakech
- Patchwork stage, Sicily
- Japan in Kew
- Chelsea Embankment
- Tongue out, Windsor Great Park
- Windsor
- Bathing of the swans
- Marrakech magic
- Marseille urbanscape
- Bedroom delight
- Colours of Castagneto
- The land of Italy
- Christmas at home
- Le Marché d’Aix
- Sleepy afternoon in Bolgheri
- Richmond
- Clapham in the Autumn
- Woodpecker in London
- Cassis sur la plage
- The Souk of Marrakech
- Moroccan gardens
- Ham House
- Chelsea White
- The Majorelle gardens
- Wimbledon Common
- Magnificent Malaga
- Hallway at Christmas
- Battersea Park
- Birthday baroque
- Marseille’s big wheel
- Patched up Aix
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