If you had opened this page ten years ago (bar six days) you would have seen this picture in this position - at the page top - maybe you did, if so special congratulations on still hanging in here after 10 years. Click on the picture to see the page on the Chambur area of Bombay/Mumbai
This is a celebratory page of photos all of which have already been on these Picture Posting pages. Two years after the first Picture Posting, it was joined by the Mosaic pages on alternate Saturdays, to date there have now been 330 pages of photos in this section of the ColinBrydon.net site, that means there are some 8 to 9 thousand photos for you to browse! Out of those I have chosen 34 from 330 pages. Naturally I wanted to work better shots into this ...
...anniversary sample, beyond that I was looking for a variety of places and subjects. Clicking on an image takes you to the page which has that photo at its head. The top half of the page, above the one celebrating the fifth anniversary, are landscape photos, below, are more of people.
Jumping on a few thousand years to a page on the island of Lindisfarne and Bamburgh Castle, north Northumberland
Starting with the oldest monument on this page, here forming a link to photos of some of the sites in Cairo
And northwards to another famous castle - Edinburgh, taking you to the first of a set of pages about this monument
And from old defences to modern warfare -
bombs in Laos from a page on the Plane of Jars
Another cross, this one over 12,000 feet above the one on Lindisfarne - introducing a page on Mount Teide, Tenerife
No snow on Mount Teide, plenty here, on hills by Rannoch Moor, from a page on that area of northern Scotland
From nature's grandeur to human imitation of nature - looking up inside the Lotfollah Mosque in Isfahan with its version of a peacock's tail as the introduction
to the page on Isfahan's Mosques
Here, no attempt to imitate nature, just a grand structure -
A page on the Forth Rail Bridge in central Scotland
Another engineering feat - the railway through eastern Turkey, brings you a page on the Istanbul to Iran line
And so back to Iran, here a photo from the south-east of the country - and the city of Kerman, to which this link takes you
Moving much further east, from desert, to the wet climate of Vietnam - this photos takes you to a page on a district just north of Hà Nội
...they fall through Vietnam - A page on the Mã Pì Lèng Gorge
More paddy fields introducing a page on planting paddy. And then from these lowlands up to the last vestiges of the Himalaya as...
Here Scotland provides some more amazing hills, these are in the
Torridon area of the north-west Highlands
Some photographs of water: here the evening light on a river along Highway 32 - linking to a page on this beautiful road in Vietnam
From a wet tropical country to water near the Arctic Circle - This page is on the home of parliaments some 50 kilometres from Reykjavik, the Icelandic capital
Autumn in full swing, but no water - a page from 'Moffat Water': the valley by Moffat
Above some water as autumn begins in Scotland - a page on the Loch of the Lowes and Tibbie Shiels' Inn - in the south of the country
The photo which headed the page on the occasion of its fifth anniversary
- a page of fireworks and balloons
To a page on the Laotian capital - Vientiane
Click on the photo above to take you to a page on the Hà Nội Traffic
The stillness of landscape in the upper half of this page, more movement of life and people in the lower half
Photos from Phố Bảng Market
Roadside sales introduce a page of candid shots around Hà Nội
Sellers offer good opportunities for photographs, but there are other ways that subjects can be unselfconscious - here a man is absorbed in mending his net, this comes from a page of photographs from Chennai (Madras) beach
Continuing in India, and also in the south, this family in Bangalore offer a link to photos from around the city
Much of Vietnamese life revolves around meal times - and, on special occasions people enjoy eating in the traditional manner: on mats, on the ground. This link takes you to one particular meal, you can go on from there to a page on Mat Meals - Getting Down to Eating
Photographers are tolerated if one is making an exhibition of oneself: in this case as part of the Edinburgh Festival
This square, dedicated to Lý Thái Tổ in central Hà Nội, is the scene of endless performances, community activities and rituals. This page introduces you to some of these events
Given the number of sunsets on this site, I am being very abstemious by only offering two on this Anniversary Page. However, from this link you can access
a whole page of them taken on Carrick Shore
An arctic tern in the Faroes takes you to the page on Nólsoy
Above, whooper swans are the big
attraction in winter at the
Caerlaverock reserve
From a bird of a few grams, to an elephant in Laos
Below, Iceland is the
place to meet an
Arctic Fox, although they are only fully white in winter
And finally, for this celebration of ten years, a rainbow near Shieldaig to take you to a page of photos from northern Scotland
Trailers...
The next Picture Posting page is to return to southern Scotland with photos showing the result of felling on Gallowhill.
The next page
of the Mosaic Section is headed 'Interaction'.
Or go to the contents Go to the contents of the Mosaic Section. of the Mosaic Section. Monitors can keep the layout, which phones may need to discombobulate.
The last page had photos of people in Quảng Bạ District
To a small palace in the very north of Vietnam
Go to Charles Jencks' garden of Cosmic Speculation
...guide to this site