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