Travel – Sun in Gemini

September 28, 2025 + #iphonephotography, #Silenti, Travel, Travel and people, Travel and Photography

Wooden Ships (2) : Prince Edward Island

(Continued from Part One) Prince Edward Island, often shortened to its initials PEI, is Canada’s smallest province. It lies only 13 miles off the New Brunswick Atlantic coast. It is connected to the Canadian mainland by one of the world’s longest bridges to pass over ice-covered waters (in winter), named the Confederation Bridge. It is one of Canada’s Maritime Provinces, and the waters that … Read More Wooden Ships (2) : Prince Edward Island

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September 14, 2025 + #iphonephotography, #Silenti, Travel, Travel and people, Travel and Photography

Wooden Ships (1)

by Steve Tanham

It was Easter Sunday, 20th April, 2025. Bernie had cooked us a fabulous Sunday lunch, now finished, leaving us relaxed and reflective. . We had three guests; our longstanding friends and fellow dog-owners Siobhan and Paul, and a visiting new friend of theirs from New Zealand – Russ -who is pivotal to the rest of this true story. Although you might have good reason … Read More Wooden Ships (1)

August 21, 2024 + #iphonephotography, #Silenti, Travel, Travel and Photography

A return to Kingston-on-Thames

by Steve Tanham

Kingston-on-Thames; an ancient English borough, and a place we love to return to each year as the summer is coming to a close, and the sense of the autumn is on the breeze. Three hours on the train from Oxenholme – Kendal’s main west-coast station – a quick snack in London, then on to Waterloo Station and another train out to the south-west, getting … Read More A return to Kingston-on-Thames

July 17, 2024 + #iphonephotography, #Silenti, Travel

Ideas and buildings…

by Steve Tanham

©Stephen Tanham 2024 All photos taken and processed on an iPhone 12 ProMax. Stephen Tanham is a writer-photographer and mystical teacher. He is the founding Director of the Silent Eye, which offers a monthly Zoom-based gathering of companions, each one on their own, unique journey to deeper states of self-realisation.

June 25, 2024 + #iphonephotography, #Silenti, nature, Travel

Hot, sultry river

by Steve Tanham

It doesn’t happen often in these parts. You have to make the best of what I call the ‘sultry light’ when it does… The rich greens and golds take on a different hue… more ‘earthy’, a bit like a child’s fairy story. Even the River Kent feels subdued; as though it would rather pose for photos than thunder through the Sedgwick Gorge. ©Stephen Tanham … Read More Hot, sultry river

June 23, 2024 + #iphonephotography, #Silenti, Ancient Landscapes, Travel

Moments in Italy (1)

by Steve Tanham

A mild May evening…. Lake Como, with its steep glacial sides, seen at its ‘softest’. The plentiful ferries have all been berthed for the night. It’s peaceful and gentle. Taken from the promenade in the small town of Managgio, about two-thirds up the west shore of the lake. ©Stephen Tanham 2024 All photos taken and processed on an iPhone 12 ProMax or created using … Read More Moments in Italy (1)

May 29, 2024 + #Humour, #Photography,, #Silenti, Travel, Travel and Photography

Postcards from Sirmione

by Steve Tanham

We have observed over the years that our best holidays are those where we have to ‘do a bit of work’ to engage with the destination landscape. Just getting on a cheap flight and staying in a sanitised resort is no longer satisfying, though a few days of sun at the end of a Cumbrian winter is much needed! Our best ever trip was … Read More Postcards from Sirmione

May 23, 2024 + #TravelwithaMysticalEye, Travel, Travel and Photography

An Older Venice

by Steve Tanham

Venice is, by definition, old. But much of the area near to St Mark’s Square is given over to modern tourism. A fifteen minute stroll through the crowds will bring you to the Rialto Bridge. Where hundreds of people are taking photographs of the Grand Canal, which divides the central island in two. Once across, and through the nearby markets, you can take just … Read More An Older Venice

March 14, 2024 + #iphonephotography, #Silenti, Consciousness, Travel

A Place of Tranquility

by Steve Tanham

(📩 Irish travel, lots of photos, 1000 words. A good cup of coffee…) We all need a place of tranquility, a haven where we can take a retreat from a busy or even mad world. It may be a room in our house where we keep objects that mean something special to us. We may meditate there, or read books that have become special … Read More A Place of Tranquility

August 29, 2023 + #Silenti, Motorcycles, Places and Prose, Travel, Travel and Photography

Girl on a Motorcycle – Part One

by Steve Tanham

My father’s eldest sibling – my Auntie Mary – though hailing from the family hometown of Bolton, Lancashire, married a highly decorated and highly tall (6’4”) Scottish army officer at the end of WW2. In 1946, on the way to begin her new life as the wife of a now Glaswegian police officer, two English serviceman in the same train carriage advised her to … Read More Girl on a Motorcycle – Part One

August 20, 2023 + #Silenti, Ancient Landscapes, Consciousness, Photographic techniques, Photography, Travel

Edinburgh Fringe 2023

by Steve Tanham

Our first ‘Fringe’. Three days of hectic dashing from one side of the city to the other to find small or even tiny venues where the hopeful entertainers work their socks off. We loved it… but couldn’t have taken another day. Fabulous drama, incredible live music and acrobatic skills to make you gasp. Our favourite was a street juggler cum knife thrower cum reincarnated … Read More Edinburgh Fringe 2023

July 4, 2023 + #Silenti, Consciousness, Lake District, Mindfulness, mystical travel, Photographic techniques, Photography, Travel, Travel and Photography

Wet Summer Light

by Steve Tanham

Ulverston on a June day. Immediately after a dowsing in one of the rainstorms that have ended two solid months of sunshine and blue skies here in the extreme north-west of England. It’s actually a pleasant change, though I have no desire to ‘hex’ the lovely summer we’re having. We’re in Ulverston – a lovely market town that used to be in north Lancashire, … Read More Wet Summer Light