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