Today is a public holiday in Malta – Jum il-Ħelsien, celebrating the withdrawal of British troops from the island in 1979, some years after the islands became independent. Perhaps it’s fitting that today’s throwback photo, from a walk I did almost two years ago, shows one of the many artefacts remaining from British rule in Malta. In this case it’s a marker with the initials … Continue reading Mġarr Church and Georgius Rex
I’m trying my best this week to get my schedule back on track. And that includes my blogging. While my more recent photos are still in my editing pile, I thought I’d share something from a few weeks ago, an end-of-the-year walk starting from Kunċizzjoni. As things worked out, by the end of my walk, the sun was almost setting and the light was glorious, … Continue reading Mosta
A couple weeks ago I mentioned how last week there would be the Lija village feast. While I don’t technically live there any more, I still consider Lija to be “my” village as I have so many memories there. And in any case, we live close enough that the village feast would be impossible to avoid. In pre-covid times, that is, of course. When the … Continue reading Lija Parish Church Feast Day
Last Saturday I set up an early alarm to wake myself up in time to shoot the moonset. It’s something I have not done in a very long time. Too long, in fact, for once one gets over the mental confusion and general grumpiness of waking up so early, it’s all a rather enjoyable experience. The sweet morning air, the sense of quietness around as … Continue reading Moonset Over Lija Church
Taking a few moments to write a short blog post this morning to share a photo I took yesterday evening. If you haven’t looked up at the evening sky to see the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction don’t wait too long. They can be clearly seen with the naked eye, and if you have a pair of binoculars, the planets are easily identifiable. You also get to see … Continue reading Jupiter-Saturn Conjunction Over Lija Church
I see that I’m on a roll with my recent posts featuring chapels and small churches. So let’s not break with that just yet. Though I don’t think today’s church really qualifies as a small one. I think this is the largest church I’m including in the very arbitrary list for my long-term project. But then it’s a church I have a personal attachment to, … Continue reading Salvatur il-Qadim
Writing this post a day later than usual, but on the plus side it’s a way more recent photo than usual. Last Sunday I woke up early so took the opportunity to take the drone out for a short flight to make a photo I had been thinking about for a while now. What you see is the Lija parish church at the back with … Continue reading Lija Church and Belvedere
This week’s film-on-Friday photo is from a pre-Covid day trip to Gozo for some climbing with my good friend Kenneth. We spent the morning in Wied il-Mielaħ, climbing on the sea cliff just by the arch. On our way out of the valley we passed by this scene and as I had my camera with me we stopped for a few mins to make this … Continue reading Madonna ta’ Pinu
A quick post this Sunday to wish those of you who celebrate a Happy Easter, or as we say in Maltese l-Għid it-Tajjeb. The photo shows the parish church of Siġġiewi, dedicated to St Nicholas of Bari. I made this photo late last year on a photographic outing dedicated to some chapels in the area. Continue reading San Nikola ta’ Bari
In an earlier post I mentioned an outing we did during the holidays, where we drove down to Żurrieq to shoot some chapels in the area. Many locals, I’m sure, will recognize the one in today’s photo as the chapel dedicated to the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady (or Il-Kunċizzjoni Mmakulata in Maltese). It is also known as Ta’ Nigret because that’s the village (now … Continue reading Kunċizzjoni Mmakulata
After what seems like forever (though in reality it’s only been about a month) I’m back with some actually recent photography. Last week we had a meeting, organised some time ago, with Heritage Malta, to take some drone photography of one of the sites they manage. This is a work project involving the use of drones for surveying heritage sites. We wanted to start with … Continue reading Mġarr
For this week’s recent photo I’m sharing the counterpart to last week’s chapel, visited on the same evening. I had seen this chapel before, having passed by on a walk to Burmarrad, but had not stopped to take photos. I’ve been meaning to revisit this place for a long time, as I get a reminder every time I see it from the cliffs of Wied … Continue reading Santa Katerina
Muddy Boots 