It’s the last day of 2011, and for my second review of the year that’s almost behind us, I’ve looked back on all the photos I’ve taken this year and selected a few of my favourites. In this way, I can share with you my year. It’s been a pretty good year for me in some ways – trips to Paris, Mallorca, Madrid and Marbella as well as Liverpool and Cornwall in England. All made for some inspirational scenes which begged to be captured on my camera. But so to does home continue to inspire, the autumnal glow of nearby Clapham Common and Richmond Park offering stimulating riches with which the lens so easily engages. So please enjoy the photos I have set out and in the meantime I trust that all the readers of The Daily Norm will enjoy a superb New Year’s Eve and have a very prosperous 2012. My little online paper has only been running a short while, but I am truly appreciative of all the support garnered so far. Please continue to drop in on my Norm-world in 2012 and help to spread all things artistic, aesthetic and beautiful around the globe. Happy New Year!
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Starting as I meant to go on… New Year 2011 in Paris
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First flowers of Spring
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Close up of a fly highlights the beauty of these otherwise annoying creatures
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Street furniture in Madrid
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Spanish Semana Santa (Easter) parades were a wash out in Marbella
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El Escorial Palace in Madrid – so big it’s cloudy on one end, sunny on the other
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Inner Temple Gardens in bloom, London
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The striking architecture of Birmingham’s Selfridges building
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Marshes on the approach to St Ives, Cornwall
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St Ives seen from the Tregenna Castle estate
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Cornish fishing boat off the coast of St Ives
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Double trouble: seagulls posing on the Cornish coast
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Tame seal approaches visitors in St Ives
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The harbour and lighthouse of St Ives at dusk
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Birthday treat… churros and chocolate in Marbella’s Casco Antiguo
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Aceitunas y cerveza – makes for the perfect afternoon in the Spanish sun
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Archetypal white washed mountain village in Andalucia – Ojen
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The Lambanana in front of Liverpool’s famous Liver building
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Old building reflected in new: architectural differences at Liverpool’s Albert Dock
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Shiny new apartment block going up at Liverpool’s Albert Dock
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Sunset in Mallorca looking over the bay to the lights of Magaluf from the far calmer perspective of the Punta Negra
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Es Baluard museum of contemporary art, Palma de Mallorca
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Autumn descends on the streets of Palma de Mallorca
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Autumn hues blend effortlessly with structural sculpture alongside Palma’s Passeig des Born
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Dining in the stunning Puerto de Soller, Mallorca
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Vibrant reds and autumn berries on the hillsides surrounding Soller
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Fishing in the Puerto de Soller
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The famous Palma-Soller old tram line
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The Puerto d’Andratx
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The coastal colours of Mallorca – you have to see it to believe it.
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My favourite café chain across Mallorca, Cappuccino – here its scenic branch in the heart of Valldemossa
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View from the patio gardens outside Chopin’s cell in the Real Cartuja Monastery, Valledemossa
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Final Mallorcan sunset
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Wild mushroom in Richmond Park
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Autumn leaf in Richmond Park
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Deer in Richmond Park
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Stag in Richmond Park
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Afternoon tea by the river in Richmond
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Autumnal hues in Clapham Common
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Carpet of leaves (and my shadow)
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Back in Spain – a glowing bird of paradise
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Cappuccino – the Marbella branch
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Back in Paris – the majestic Tour Eiffel rises above Parisian rooftops
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Tour Eiffel from the Place de la Concorde
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Notre Dame at Christmas
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Winter sunset in Clapham, London
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Christmas day Spanish orange custard dessert, cooked with my mother
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Christmas 2011
© Nicholas de Lacy-Brown and The Daily Norm, 2005-2011. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of the material, whether written work, photography or artwork, included within The Daily Norm without express and written permission from The Daily Norm’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Nicholas de Lacy-Brown and The Daily Norm with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.
Richard III (2016 ©Nicholas de Lacy-Brown, acrylic on canvas)
Norms on Dubrovnik Beach (2014 © Nicholas de Lacy-Brown, pen and ink on paper)
Norms in Dubrovnik take the Cable Car (2014 © Nicholas de Lacy-Brown, pen and ink on paper)
Norms at La Pedrera (2014 © Nicholas de Lacy-Brown, pen and ink on paper)
Norms in Soller (2013, © Nicholas de Lacy-Brown)
The Nighthawk Norms (after Hopper) (2012 © Nicholas de Lacy-Brown, pen on paper)
Tube Norms (2012, © Nicholas de Lacy-Brown, pen on paper)
Norms at the Halloween House of Horrors (2012 © Nicholas de Lacy-Brown, pen on paper)
While these Norm tourists are at the Musée Rodin.
For Lisbon Norms this is a scene from every day life
While for Parisian Norms, it’s not unusual to see Egyptians wondering by.
Norms in Pisa (2012 © Nicholas de Lacy-Brown, pen and ink on paper)
Norms visit the C’an Joan de S’Aigo (2014 © Nicholas de Lacy-Brown, pen and ink on paper)
The Daily Norm 
Dec 31
2011: My year in photos
It’s the last day of 2011, and for my second review of the year that’s almost behind us, I’ve looked back on all the photos I’ve taken this year and selected a few of my favourites. In this way, I can share with you my year. It’s been a pretty good year for me in some ways – trips to Paris, Mallorca, Madrid and Marbella as well as Liverpool and Cornwall in England. All made for some inspirational scenes which begged to be captured on my camera. But so to does home continue to inspire, the autumnal glow of nearby Clapham Common and Richmond Park offering stimulating riches with which the lens so easily engages. So please enjoy the photos I have set out and in the meantime I trust that all the readers of The Daily Norm will enjoy a superb New Year’s Eve and have a very prosperous 2012. My little online paper has only been running a short while, but I am truly appreciative of all the support garnered so far. Please continue to drop in on my Norm-world in 2012 and help to spread all things artistic, aesthetic and beautiful around the globe. Happy New Year!
© Nicholas de Lacy-Brown and The Daily Norm, 2005-2011. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of the material, whether written work, photography or artwork, included within The Daily Norm without express and written permission from The Daily Norm’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Nicholas de Lacy-Brown and The Daily Norm with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.