Italians just infuse everything with beauty and passion. It’s in their food. Their buildings. Their fashion, music, art. Every vista is a postcard. Florence, Italy, 2004
Experimenting with breaking the rule of thirds. I think it works.
Who knew bags of oranges hanging on a wall could look so striking? There’s beauty in all sorts of everyday things if you just look for it. (Istanbul, Turkey, 2009)
Buy the second one from the left and you'll be short-changed...
It was this alleyway scene in a back street of Rhodes Town that triggered a new collection: I collect photos of Vespas and other scooters in interesting contexts.
This first one is still my favourite. The contrasting silvered textures of the wall, cobblestones and the front of the scooter are just beautiful.
Don't you wish you were there, right now?
(Rhodes, Greece, 2002)
I am drawn to the seashore at sunset as a moth is to a flame. I could never live inland; after more than 48 hours in a landlocked city I get edgy and the nearest river or lake becomes a magnet.
When I am standing on a beach, watching the sun dip below the horizon (and never seeing the green flash!), I get a strong sense that the water before me is the same water that’s lapping on the sands at the beach down the road from my home. And it’s the same water I stood before in Fiji, California, Thailand, Tahiti and numerous other places. No matter where in the world I am, if I can be down by the shore as the sun is setting, I feel at home.
Italy. Never anything less than 'bella'.
Capri, Italy, 2002
I love, love, LOVE those moments when you’re in another country and it hits you: “I’M IN PARIS!” – or New York, or on a glacier, or 35,000 feet above Turkey and making a phone call from my plane seat, or….
I adore the goosebumps I get when in front of me, for the first time, is something so iconic, it feels totally unreal. It looks just like it does in all those photos! Whether my travel companions find my excitement and enthusiasm endearing or annoying, I don’t know – but I hope I never lose it. My stomach is feeling all squirmy just thinking about these moments, right now 
The first of many images in this category: Cairo, Egypt, 2010.
Glimpsing the Pyramids for the first time. I'M IN CAIRO!