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