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Blue and Green in Óbidos
The white wall with its thick blue trim caught my eye in Óbidos. I love that blue colour. I love to see matching colours too, so I was delighted to see matching green, and then the man in the blue polo shirt. Matchy-matchy!
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The Óbidos Cat
Óbidos has a castle and a full circuit of medieval walls, but plenty of people were stopping for the cat instead. He lay on his back on the cobbles in the middle of the street, happy with a rub behind the ears and a few words from anyone who bent down. With that coat, he’s…
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Which Way Now?
A tourist stopped to check her map, standing in the sun outside the walls of Óbidos Castle. Deep shadows surround her, where I preferred to stand, out of the heat of the sun.
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Óbidos from the Ramparts
Trees provide shade just inside the town walls of Óbidos in Portugal and a couple sat in a net hammock to enjoy the view. The sun was bright in the street but under the shade it was pleasant.
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The Flower Is Watching
Near South Bank in London you’ll find a CCTV camera disguised as a pixelated flower in a pot. Surely nobody would notice, right? Well, photographers notice! The pixel art was created by Invader, here’s more about it.
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A Moment on the Cobbles
Óbidos is a walled town north of Lisbon, all cobbled lanes and whitewashed walls. I spotted a street cleaner stopped for a moment waiting for her colleague to come down the road. I’d guess the straw hat over her headscarf is her own and on a street with no shade it was needed. They do…
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Bus Stop, Valencia
The doors were about to close when I glanced out and saw the men sitting at the bus stop waiting for another bus.
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Night at Monart
If you stay at Monart Destination Spa you’ll see a fabulous fountain and the bridge in the background lit up like this at night.
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Wings Up on Cornmarket Street
A crow lifted off the top of the barrier around the old Paintwell shop on Cornmarket Street, Cork, as I approached to get a closer shot. Its friends had already departed, but this one was cleaning its feathers and only looked up a moment before this photo was taken.
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A Break in the Doorway
I spotted someone sitting in the doorway of a food truck in Rory Gallagher Place, Cork, and liked the contrasting colours of what I saw.
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Two Pairs of VEJA
Two people walked by wearing VEJA runners. I didn’t notice at first, but it was only later at home I noticed the matching shoes.
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Two in bronze, two in cotton
Two bronze women sit on a rock outside the National Theatre. Two people stand in front of them reading an inscription on the ground. The sculpture is Frank Dobson’s London Pride, originally made from the 1951 Festival of Britain, made from plaster. It was only cast in bronze decades later and put back in the…