Category Travels

Where did everyone go?

This week on Taraji Blue we’re going all French. We’ll be sharing photos daily from this beautiful country. In this photo, sunflowers gaze across an empty field, seemingly mourning the loss of their friends. We were lucky to find a…

Malfunctioning iceberg

We saw many beautiful icebergs in Greenland, hundreds of them. Immense in size, colour and shape, they dotted the landscape like sheep dot English hillsides. Whilst I loved the majestic nature of the large smooth icebergs, I was also drawn…

Sing for your supper

In China, songbirds are kept in bamboo cages. Their owners take them for walks and hang the bird cages off tree branches. They will often cluster the cages together so the birds can be introduced. This wee bird was hanging…

The Lone Iceberg

A lone iceberg floats in the calm of a Norwegian Fiord. This image was taken during our Arctic Expedition on the MS Expedition in 2010. We spent a glorious 10 nights exploring the fiords and seas of Svalbard, Spitsbergen and…

Beautiful Bellavista

Bellavista Cloud Forest is perched high in the tropical hills of Ecuador. From our rustic cabin in the woods we had first class seats to watch a beautiful sunset. As we watched the sky turn all kinds of pink, the…

A Mythical Sunset

We’ve called this photo the ‘Wizard and the Troll’. An oddly shaped standing stone towers over his plumper friend as they watch the sun go down behind the Standing Stones of Callanish, Isle of Lewis, Scotland. If you like this picture,…

The Perfect Sunset

This week on Taraji Blue we’re recalling and celebrating our favourite sunrises and sunsets. It was taken in the Maasai Mara a few years back on a return trip we’d longed to take. It captures the rising sun through the silhouette of…