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