2016: My Year in Photos
It’s beyond crazy that a year has passed since I last compiled a photographic review of my photos. I remember exactly where I was sitting when I last did it, the rush I felt at writing the post before jetting off the following day to Venice…I practically remember what I was drinking (gingerbread green tea surely… it comes highly recommended). Short of remembering the clothes I was wearing, it seems so ridiculously proximate in time that I feel almost in a state of dreamlike disorientation as I engage on the annual tradition of writing this post. Even filing through my many thousand of photos does not convince me that enough time can have passed for a year to be up already. And there was I thinking that leap year 2016 had one more day to its number.
And yet my calendar tells me that we are once again here again, coming to the end of another year, and one which for me has been very, very busy but full of light, sunshine and happiness. All of these things have mainly been the result of my location which, for another full year, was based on the paradise island of Mallorca in the Mediterranean sea, a backdrop which provided a daily life rich in sensual pleasures, and from which other fantastic locations such as Barcelona and Granada were only a short plane’s hop away.
Yet asides from the visual riches so inherent in Spain, 2016 was a year which provided us with the opportunity to explore old favourites such as the enduringly attractive city of Rome, and also to embrace the new: the island of Menorca, Split in Croatia and Vienna in Austria were just three of those exciting new destinations which we were lucky enough to discover in 2016. It was also a year of discovery for my young family too…One of my highlights has to be the visit to Mallorca of my sister and young nephews, and experiencing their joy as they dipped into the warm sea for the first time.
When I look back over 2016, I remember a year of stark contrasts. Because for all of the beautiful experiences which manifest in these photos shared today, I cannot deny a feeling of trepidation as I leave a year which presented so many new dangers. As if Brexit in June was not bad enough, the Trump election in the US just 5 months later was like rubbing salt into a still unhealed wound. And in my personal sphere, the news that I will soon be leaving to Mallorca to take up life again in London likewise will come with its share of challenges. Only time will tell how this cocktail of external and personal factors will play out, and the experiences which will result. However I am confident that in 12 months time, another year will have quickly passed. I look forward to sharing with you the photographic gallery which will surely result.
- Incredible intricacy, Alhambra
- Palma abstract
- Christmas comes home
- Floral perfection, Menorca
- A rose for Valentine’s
- Born Market, Barcelona
- Hvar harbour
- A little friend
- The streets of Split
- Botanical Gardens, Soller
- Viennese Silhouette
- Sunset over Palma
- Vienna rooftops
- Gaudi’s Ceiling, Barcelona
- Baroque perfection, Roma
- Sunrise over Palma Cathedral
- Even a dog needs to eat
- Glass goods from Venice come home
- Caffe Greco, Rome
- Ciutadella, Menorca
- Sun or Moon?
- Lithica labyrinth, Menorca
- Dominik where he feels best at home…Rome
- Plantlife in Hvar
- Sunset in Palma
- Murals at the Vatican
- Ses Salines, Mallorca
- Floral delight
- A group from the past
- Rosewater
- Ancient landscape, Mallorca
- Perfect seas, Menorca
- Summer solstice in Hvar
- Vatican marbles
- Skyline, Menorca
- Sunlight and shadows, Ibiza
- Street scene, Rome
- Boats and reflections
- Binibeca Vell, Menorca
- Double trouble
- A temple in Pollensa
- Roman holiday
- Split, Croatia
- The nephews come calling…
- When in Rome…
- A very cosy frog, Granada
- Cala San Vicente, Mallorca
- Ciutadella cathedral
- Passeig de Gracia, Barcelona
- Roman facade
- The ancient clocks of Diocletian’s Palace
- Views worth climbing for…
- Jewels of Granada
- The rooftops of Hvar
- Roman antiquity
- Pond life
- Cacti Eden
- Mediterranean palette
- Croatian sculpture
- Springtime in Mallorca
- Mimosa, Parc Güell
- Tourists in the Piazza Navona
- Baroque brilliance, Rome
- Mallorca’s Spring
- Gothic grandeur, Vienna
- Cactus landscape
- Ancient stonemasonry, Menorca
- Colours of the Eixample
- The majestic Alhambra
- The ancient heart of Pollensa
- Chain reflection
- St George and the Dragon
- Stormy skies, Menorca
- Bellver Castle in Silhouette
- The Granada pomegranate
- Parliament, Vienna
- Dancing fountain, Barcelona
- The majesty of Vienna
- Arabic waters, Alhambra
- Hockney kind of life, Menorca
- Stormy morning, Palmanova
- Spring flowers
- A Pantheon Moment
- Lambing season begins
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