Nature

Spring in four colours: camellia, plum and wintersweet against painted walls.

A young caiman by torchlight

The glasshouse of the Conservatory and Botanical Garden.

Cloud cover gathering over the shore of Lake Ontario before the eclipse.

Dawn over Þingvallavatn at Þingvellir, the lake where two continents part.

Tabletop mountains above the lava plain on the drive east.

The icefall of a Skaftafell outlet glacier above dark moraine.

Dawn light on the mountains of Snæfellsnes.

A garden entrance and parked scooters in Canggu.

A Cantabrian coastal detail.

A mountain-road memory from Asturias.

Sunset over the Miraflores coastline

Entering the Tambopata National Reserve

A first clear view of the sun through a break in the cloud.

Gullfoss dropping into its canyon under fresh snow.

A lone basalt butte beside the Ring Road.

Blue ice ridges on the glacier hike.

Alpenglow on the Snæfellsnes range, a raven overhead.

Looking straight down the chalk to the sea.

Coral rock and clear water.

Friends talking in a jungle garden café.

A path through the rice on the Sweet Orange walk.

Stone, sea and a northern Spanish summer.

Pasture and limestone in the Picos de Europa.

The sun slipping behind the headlands

Mist over the peaks above Machu Picchu

The moon taking its first bite from the sun.

A snow-capped mountain above the highland plateau near Gullfoss.

The same butte, layered like a cut cake of old lava.

Crevassed ice rolling down from Vatnajökull.

The white cliffs falling to a pebble beach.

A small cove of turquoise water.

Dinner on a terrace under the trees.

Green rice to the tree line.

Wind, stone and salt air at Gaztelugatxe.

A roadside memory from Cantabria.

Weather moving over northern Spain.

The last curve of the sun

The thinning crescent just before totality.

The Hvítá river pouring over Gullfoss’s two tiers.

Ash-streaked ridges of glacier ice in the blue hour.

Atlantic surf breaking on Reynisfjara’s black sand.

A quiet college court and its tree.

Waves over the reef flat.

The villa pool lit up on the first night.

A glimpse of the sea from a garden table.

Paddies under a grey afternoon sky.

The Atlantic path toward San Juan de Gaztelugatxe.

A mountain-road memory from Asturias.

The solar corona unfurling around the black disc of the moon.

The Costa Verde at dusk

The diamond ring at the edge of darkness.

A track worn across the glacier surface.

One of the Reynisdrangar sea stacks off Reynisfjara.

The White Cliffs of Dover.

Morning light on the pool and the frangipani.

Rice and coconut palms.

The cliffs of Uluwatu above the surf.

A cliffside view of the Basque coast.

Pasture and limestone in the Picos de Europa.

The diamond ring: the last edge of sunlight before totality.

Totality over Belleville: corona, prominences and a black sun.

The mouth of a small ice cave, a red rope marking the way in.

A wave rearing up over the black beach at Reynisfjara.

Stapafell, the elves’ mountain above Arnarstapi, in morning light.

A sheer face of chalk above the water.

A red land crab crossing the road.

A lizard sunning itself on the pool edge.

Wind, stone and salt air at Gaztelugatxe.

Weather moving over northern Spain.

A bright bead of sun breaks through the lunar edge.

Sunset over the river

A crimson prominence burning at the solar edge.

Air bubbles frozen deep in blue glacier ice.

Winter surf at Reynisfjara — keep well back from the water.

The northern lights curling over the bay at Reykjavík.

Autumn bouquets at a flower stand.

The great banyan at the Taichung Literature Museum.

Pink frangipani against the sky.

The Atlantic path toward San Juan de Gaztelugatxe.

A mountain-road memory from Asturias.

Totality ending in a blaze of gold.

Daylight returning after the total eclipse.

A shard of clear glacier ice on black moraine.

Skógafoss in the blue light of a snowy afternoon.

An aurora arc above the lava rocks of the Reykjavík shore.

The open sea beyond the coastal scrub.

A cliffside view of the Basque coast.

Pasture and limestone in the Picos de Europa.

The corona and a red prominence during totality.

A great potoo, disguised as a broken branch

Cloud cover gathering over the shore of Lake Ontario before the eclipse.

Visitors dwarfed by Skógafoss.

Icebergs packed into Jökulsárlón in the morning blue.

Green light over the far shore of Faxaflói.

The basalt sea cliffs of Arnarstapi.

A great copper beech turning in the college gardens.

Aerial roots climbing the banyan — somewhere inside, a bicycle.

Wind-combed grass on a cliff.

Palms and a thatched roof under a blue sky.

Wind, stone and salt air at Gaztelugatxe.

A Basque summer scene between rain and celebration.

Weather moving over northern Spain.

The dark sun ringed by a fine amber corona.

A blue-and-yellow macaw in the treetops

Reeds and summer clouds along the lakeshore.

A first clear view of the sun through a break in the cloud.

The 60-metre curtain of Skógafoss.

The aurora spreading across the whole bay.

Gatklettur, the stone arch in the sea at Arnarstapi.

Red ivy on the Meadow Building.

A green sea turtle in the shallows.

The garden and pool of the villa.

The Atlantic path toward San Juan de Gaztelugatxe.

A Semana Grande moment in Donostia.

A mountain-road memory from Asturias.

A thin orange crescent after the moon begins to pass.

A red howler monkey in the riverside trees

The moon taking its first bite from the sun.

The old sea cliffs above Skógar, dusted with snow.

Blue icebergs under the mountains of Breiðamerkurjökull.

Bands of aurora above the lights of the coast.

A cove of black rock and clear water along the Arnarstapi cliffs.

Autumn ivy climbing the Gothic windows.

A sea turtle grazing on the reef.

A cliffside view of the Basque coast.

Life along the Bay of La Concha.

Pasture and limestone in the Picos de Europa.

A clean crescent of sun seen through eclipse glass.

A red howler monkey climbing through the branches

The thinning crescent just before totality.

Ice calved from Breiðamerkurjökull crowding the lagoon.

Stapafell above a still pond and a black-timbered house.

Kensington Gardens turning gold.

Banyan roots spreading overhead at Anping.

A turtle carried in by the tide.

Wind, stone and salt air at Gaztelugatxe.

Weather moving over northern Spain.

The sun returns as a deep orange crescent.

A burned field between growing seasons

A striated heron waiting at the water’s edge

The diamond ring at the edge of darkness.

The natural stone bridge over the sea at Arnarstapi.

A sign warning of the Royal Parks Half Marathon, under yellowing chestnuts.

Willows and punts on the river.

A turtle surfacing to breathe.

A twisted tree over the sea.

The Atlantic path toward San Juan de Gaztelugatxe.

A Semana Grande moment in Donostia.

A mountain-road memory from Asturias.

The round sun, still bitten by the moon.

Llamas graze among the ruins

A striated heron hunting along the river

Totality over Belleville: corona, prominences and a black sun.

Jagged peaks along the rim of Vatnajökull under fresh snow.

Waves running under the Arnarstapi stone bridge.

The aurora directly overhead, past midnight.

A copper tree and the road through Hyde Park at dusk.

An avenue of limes shedding its leaves.

A turtle resting on the coral in clear water.

A fallen frangipani in my hand.

A cliffside view of the Basque coast.

Pasture and limestone in the Picos de Europa.

The eclipse easing into its final partial phase.

A wattled jacana feeding in the shallows

A crimson prominence burning at the solar edge.

Snow-buried ridges near the glacier lagoon.

Moss-covered lava cliffs beneath Stapafell.

A curtain of green light over Reykjavík.

A swan on the shore of the Serpentine.

Walking under the yellow avenue.

Pandanus against the sky.

Wind, stone and salt air at Gaztelugatxe.

Weather moving over northern Spain.

A final warm arc of sun over the León field.

A pair of hoatzins, the Amazon’s “stinkbirds”

Daylight returning after the total eclipse.

Seljalandsfoss floodlit at night, hung with icicles.

The mountains of Öræfi rising over a snowbound farm.

The aurora dancing over the sea wall.

A coral outcrop in deep-blue water.

Palm fronds against the night sky.

A mountain-road memory from Asturias.

A full black disc, corona and crimson prominences.

A caiman in the river

Cloud cover gathering over the shore of Lake Ontario before the eclipse.

Sunlight breaking across snow on the flanks of Snæfellsjökull.

Light rippling through shallow water.

The rice fields lit at night.

A cliffside view of the Basque coast.

Pasture and limestone in the Picos de Europa.

A vivid red prominence at the edge of totality.

Red howler monkeys crossing a canopy bridge

A first clear view of the sun through a break in the cloud.

Lava spires silhouetted below Snæfellsjökull.

Whooper swans and ducks on the Tjörnin, the city pond.

The reef flat at low tide.

Wind, stone and salt air at Gaztelugatxe.

Weather moving over northern Spain.

Red howler monkeys resting on the canopy walkway

Every phase of the eclipse over Lake Ontario, gathered on one sheet.

A snow-dusted crater rising from the lava field.

An overhanging coral cliff on the shore.

A mountain-road memory from Asturias.

A contact sheet of the eclipse’s changing phases.

The eclipse in nine frames, from first bite to totality and back.

Light touching a crater in Snæfellsjökull National Park.

Vase Rock (花瓶岩), Xiaoliuqiu’s landmark.

A cliffside view of the Basque coast.

Pasture and limestone in the Picos de Europa.

The whole eclipse in one line: from full sun, through totality, back to full sun.

A crater in Snæfellsjökull National Park under a moving sky.

Waves breaking below the coral overhang.

Wind, stone and salt air at Gaztelugatxe.

Weather moving over northern Spain.

León’s eclipse in one line, from the first bite to the last.

A leafcutter ant carrying a leaf up a tree

A lone walker on the lava field below the snowcapped volcano.

Tide pools under the cliff.

The Atlantic path toward San Juan de Gaztelugatxe.

A mountain-road memory from Asturias.

Vase Rock at the water’s edge.

A stone path through the greenery.

A cliffside view of the Basque coast.

Stone, sea and a northern Spanish summer.

Pasture and limestone in the Picos de Europa.

The frozen river above Kirkjufellsfoss, looking out to the fjord.

Banyan roots swallowing the old warehouse at the Anping Tree House.

Reflections in the reef pools.

Wind, stone and salt air at Gaztelugatxe.

Weather moving over northern Spain.

Kirkjufell and the frozen falls of Kirkjufellsfoss.

Channels in the coral reef flat.

The Atlantic path toward San Juan de Gaztelugatxe.

A mountain-road memory from Asturias.

Kirkjufell, the arrowhead mountain above Grundarfjörður.

The reef stretching out to the waves.

A cliffside view of the Basque coast.

Pasture and limestone in the Picos de Europa.

A rufescent tiger heron on the riverbank

Kirkjufellsfoss frozen solid, onlookers on the ridge.

Bilbao between industrial memory and contemporary architecture.

A Basque summer scene between rain and celebration.

Weather moving over northern Spain.

A wattled jacana on a fallen log

A mountain-road memory from Asturias.

Butterflies drinking minerals from the riverbank mud

Banyan roots near Anping Old Fort.

Pasture and limestone in the Picos de Europa.

A green ibis on the boardwalk

Inside the Anping Tree House, roots over the old walls.

Weather moving over northern Spain.

An anhinga drying on a branch

The Twin Pagodas rising out of cherry blossom.

Cherry blossom and two lit lanterns on Shizi Street at dusk.

A red howler monkey on the canopy walkway

A street lamp lit early, the blossom leaning toward it.

A roadside memory from Cantabria.

A tree so full of blossom it hides the pagoda.

The Milky Way over the rainforest

A pagoda finial and a curled roof ridge, blossom in between.

Wintersweet in focus, the pagoda melting behind it.

The pagoda rising over blossom and a curled roof ridge.

Magnolia climbing past the pagoda's red storeys.

Esja across a calm bay after the snowstorm.

A roadside memory from Cantabria.

Blossom in a dark window frame, the pagoda's tip just visible.

Xiyuan Temple's ochre wall and a dragon on the ridge.

Blossom spilling out from under the dark eaves.

Fríkirkjan and swans on the Tjörnin.

Pink magnolia lit against the blue hour on Shizi Street.

Swans gathered on the pond at dusk.

A lantern switching on above white magnolia.

Stone, sea and a northern Spanish summer.

Half blossom, half shadow: a wall cuts the picture in two.

The pagoda's spire above a sea of white blossom and old tiles.

Fairy lights on young firs in fresh snow.

White magnolia against a clear sky in the Master of the Nets Garden.

The pagoda’s spire beside a trunk heavy with blossom.

Blossom seen from inside, through a dark window frame.

The pagoda's eaves, close up, wearing spring.

Stone, sea and a northern Spanish summer.

An autumn tree on a quiet corner in west London.

Blossom framing every storey of the pagoda.

Magnolia glowing under a street lamp after dark.

The pagoda glimpsed through a canopy of blossom.

The pagoda’s eaves through a veil of white blossom.

Buckets of flowers at a Portobello Road stall.

Two blossoming trees, and the pagoda between them.

Yipu Garden's pond, white magnolia doubled in still water.

A roadside memory from Cantabria.

Magnolia buds opening over the garden pond.

White magnolia against a dark lattice window.

A white gable and new green leaves at Yipu.

A Cantabrian coastal detail.

Late sun on a lattice window.

Magnolia above the curve of a garden roof.

Blossom framed by a carved garden window.

A garden seen through an octagonal window.

Cream magnolia petals against a soft blue sky.

Pink magnolia leaning out from behind the eaves.

Dark branches and pink magnolia, drawn like ink.

A magnolia in full bloom above a whitewashed wall.

A flying roof corner and plum blossom at the Master of the Nets Garden.

Plum blossom so thick the sky turns pink.

A magnolia in full bloom above a white wall.

Camellias opening one after another in the garden shade.

Curved gables and a pond holding the evening still.

Magnolia leaning over the eaves of the Master of the Nets Garden.

A crown of white magnolia over Yipu's tiled roof.

Magnolia and a white gable cutting the blue sky.

A few buds of wintersweet, almost lost in the blue.

A Polaroid of the wall, held up inside the magnolia.

Late sun on magnolia beside a dark pavilion.

Pink magnolia seen through a carved stone window.

White magnolia piled up like cloud above the roof.

A web of dark branches carrying pink blossom.

The Flower Clock in the Jardin Anglais.

Magnolia framed by a dark roof angle, like a window cut in the sky.

A chestnut tree turning gold above the promenade.

Two magnolia trees rising above a long dark wall.

The Jet d'Eau framed by autumn leaves.

Magnolia, white walls and old tiles in late light.

Autumn leaves on the Salève, the city far below.

Looking up through magnolia from beneath the eaves.

Bare vines tracing a weathered garden gable.

Mont Blanc's snow above the autumn woods of the Salève.

Magnolia petals scattered across the blue like stars.

White magnolia over a wall carved with lattice.

A curved gable in warm light, magnolia in silhouette.

A young magnolia reaching up from behind the wall.

Old rooftops below, the Gate of the Orient far on the horizon.

An October afternoon under the trees in the park.

Fallen leaves carpeting the lawn beneath a great tree.

Bare plum branches against the red wall of Wujiang's Confucian temple.

Branch shadows sliding across the red wall.

A carved round window set in the red wall of Wujiang's Confucian temple.

Plum blossom sketched across an empty blue sky.

Magnolia rising alone into the blue.

Qili Shantang — seven li of old street, written in brush on the wall.

One red camellia glowing in the shade at Tiger Hill.

Shantang Street in late light, red lanterns strung along the canal.

February orchids carpeting the ground at Tiger Hill.

Blossom spilling over a curved roof at the Master of the Nets Garden.

Camellias glimpsed through a lattice window at Tiger Hill.

An old brick pagoda above a garden wall.

A magnolia tree in full bloom over Yipu's roofline.

A single branch of plum, written across the sky.

February orchids, Mum's favourite, in the low spring light.

February orchids — Mum’s favourite flower.

Plum blossom on fine dark twigs, almost weightless.

Whitewashed gables and red lanterns along the water.

A cat asleep on a warm wall at Xiyuan Temple.

Rapeseed flowers by East Taihu Lake, a field of yellow.

Rapeseed standing tall against the spring sky.

Rapeseed in flower, the first yellow of spring.

Red lanterns and a stone bridge reflected in the water.

Washing at the canal steps in a red coat.

Fireworks bursting quietly in the night sky.

Xueshi Street in the rain.

Two cats napping on a terrazzo step.

Two fluffy cats exploring the terrazzo at Lindu Nuancun.

The cats again, one keeping watch, one turning to look.

An old wall of stacked tiles and jars.

A poem painted on a whitewashed wall at Lindu Nuancun.

An old wall built from stacked tiles and clay jars.

Boats at rest on the river.

The river from the canopy.

A lodge in the cloud forest.

The last boat home, at sunset.

The same river, a moment later.

Green peaks in the mist.