Digital · Photography

Hotel overlook

No, not the one from The Shining!

This is a view overlooking the lawn area beside one of our hotel’s swimming pools (there were three – one indoor, and another outdoor pool on the same level from which I took this picture). The hotel was quite maze-like and it took almost until the end of our holiday to get a decent feel for how the different areas and levels all interconnected.

The white building in the picture is also part of the complex and housed one of the hotel’s a la carte restaurants on its ground floor (which is a floor below what you can see here!). The hotel reception is below the swimming pool.

This was shot on our first day at the hotel. We had a couple of days where it became quite overcast in the afternoon, although even on otherwise sunny days, the mountain tops would usually be lost to cloud come mid-afternoon.

Below a heavy sky

Ricoh GRIII

Taken on 22 June 2026

Digital · Photography

Back in the UK

I’m home again after 11 days on the beautiful island of Madeira. I have loads of pictures to come from the trip (five rolls of film to get developed), plus a bunch of digital shots as well.

I’ll probably not get around to posting the film shots for a while as I still have a backlog of other stuff to post, but I’ll be dropping some of the digital pictures in over the coming week or so. As usual, it will be a mix of whatever caught my eye, such as this staircase in our hotel.

Going down

Ricoh GRIII

Taken on 22 June 2026