The World Through A Lens

My first trip out of England wasn't until I was thirty. In the twenty two years since then I have visited fifty six different countries and taken thousands of photographs. This blog is intended to present some of those photographs. If you enjoy them please check out my other two blogs (links below) which also contain photographs as well as much longer articles. PLEASE NOTE: COMMENTS ARE NOW DISABLED BECAUSE I WILL BE UNABLE TO ADMINISTER THEM FROM MY NEW HOME IN CHINA

Sunday 31 May 2009

DPRK:Revolutionary Monuments #8

The Great leader's Monument

Saturday 30 May 2009

DPRK:Revolutionary Monuments #7

The Great Leader's Monument, side-piece.

Friday 29 May 2009

DPRK: Revolutionary Monuments #6

Juche Tower.

Thursday 28 May 2009

DPRK:Revolutionary Monuments #5

The Three Charters Monument.

Wednesday 27 May 2009

DPRK: Revolutionary Monuments #4

Kaesong revolutionary monument. There are similar towers in every city and town in the country.

Tuesday 26 May 2009

DPRK: Revolutionary Monuments #3

Side panel of the Workers' Party Monument.

Monday 25 May 2009

DPRK:Revolutionary Monuments #2

Centrepiece of the Workers' Party Monument

Sunday 24 May 2009

DPRK:Revolutionary Monuments #1

Part of the Victorious Fatherland Liberation Monument.

Saturday 23 May 2009

DPRK, Mount Myohyang Region

Reputedly one of the Great Leader's favourite views.

Friday 22 May 2009

Poyohan Monastery, architechtural detail

Poyohan Monastery, DPRK, architectural detail

Thursday 21 May 2009

Poyohan Monastery, DPRK

Wednesday 20 May 2009

Poyohan Monastery, DPRK

Tuesday 19 May 2009

DPRK: Poyohan Monastery

Poyohan Monastery , DPRK

Monday 18 May 2009

DPRK: Hotel Interior

Hotel Interior, Myohyangsan Mountains.

Sunday 17 May 2009

DPRK: Myohyang, Hotel Interior

Tasteful!

Saturday 16 May 2009

DPRK:Myohyangsan Mountains

Myohyangsan Mountains

Friday 15 May 2009

DPRK: Revolutionary art

Thursday 14 May 2009

DPRK: Arch of Triumph

Arch of Triumph, Pyongyang, DPRK

Wednesday 13 May 2009

DPRK: Statues

Statues outside Pyongyang stadium.

Tuesday 12 May 2009

DPRK: Cold Noodles

Sometimes the food just isn't very appetising.

Monday 11 May 2009

DPRK: Revolutionary Martyrs' Cemetery

Busts, Revolutionary Martyrs' Cemetery.

Sunday 10 May 2009

DPRK: monuments

The statue in the foreground is part of the Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Monument. The pyramid shaped structure in the background is a monument of another sort - the unfinished Ryugong Hotel. This was planned as a 3000 room showpiece but never completed. It stands as an empty shell with no planned completion date, although, according to our guides, work has now restarted on it.