Jules Pretty
Gallery and Haiku
Introduction to my picture gallery and haiku
There is a selection of colour and black/white photographs in the gallery. These are intended to suggest something about the essence of place, nature, seasons and people. These are places where particular things happened.
You will find images drawn from locations worldwide. The location and date for each photograph is recorded.
For some of the photos, I have added a haiku or lu-shih style poem, the synthesis forming what are also called haiga (image + poem).
Click on each thumbnail to open a larger image, and location, year and haiku/lu-shih.
North Sea
Southwold, Suffolk, 1983
City Rain
Brixton, London, 1984
Sailors’ Reading Room
Southwold, Suffolk, 1983
Selva-Wolkenstein, Dolomites, Italy 2024
“Even in autumn a single white cloud, Clings to the marble mountain, Here on the trail the red of rowan berries.”
Stour Valley, Suffolk 2024
“The setting full moon lights a mottled sky, Before even the first birdsong, An utumn deer barks into the silence.”
Alpe di Siusi, Dolomites, Italy, 2024
“Cool drinks in an Alpine cafe, The Sassolungo range and meadows, Both under coloured sunshades.”
Ortisei, Dolomites, Italy 2024
“The dawn is cool in the mountain town, Two crows call and fly, Seven bells ringing at the tower.”
Resciesa woods, Dolomites, Italy 2024
“An ancient pine on the mountain trail, Wraps roots around rocks, The smell of resin.”
Seceda, Dolomites, Italy 2024
“In serving the evening meal, The local waiter says he’d never been unable, To ski in summer the Marmolada glacier.”
Stour Valley, Suffolk 2024
“On only this mid-summer day, Does the sun rise through the oak, Shining lengthwise down the garden.”
Siskin, Suffolk, 2024
“Wind from far rattles a door, Warming in my hands, Was the window-struck siskin.”
Bottengoms, Wormingford (The Home of Ronnie Blythe), 2023
“So it was the silence, At the old writer’s ancient cottage, Would perhaps again be filled with joy.”
Mount Beten-dake, Nyonin-michi pilgrim route
Koyasan, Japan, 2023
Fingringhoe Wick nature reserve, Essex, 2024
“Beneath lime-green leaves of oak, And deep inside the thorn and bramble, The gorgeous song of nightingale.”
Narai juku (post town)
Nakasendo Way, Japan, 2023
Shanghai
China, 1981
Kongobu-ji temple
Koyasan, Japan, 2023
Tsumago post town
Nakasendo Way, Japan, 2023
Changsha
China, 1981
Maple leaves
Suffolk, 2019
Common meadows, Sudbury, Suffolk 2024
“By salmon’s leap on the common lands, Bright stands of buttercup, Cattle lazing in the long grass.”
Prayer tree
Tuva (Siberia), 2009
Stour Valley, Suffolk 2024
“You could think the wide world, Was the size of the singing mistle thrush, Somehow lost in summer fog.”
Ronnie Blythe’s house and garden
Bottengoms, Wormingford, 2015
Kinkaku-ji Temple
Kyoto, Japan, 2023
Frinton-Walton seafront, Essex 2024
“Ten thousand glittering paths, Outbound on the shallow sea, Tea and doughnuts on the prom.”
The Saga of Laxdæla: Guðrún’s hot pool at Laugar
Iceland, 2022
Yamamura Daikan Yashinki, Magistrate’s Residence
Kiso Fukushima, Japan, 2023
Seven Sisters, Sussex 2024
“So it was the skylark sang high above, The poets at their cliff-top picnic, The very dream of figures hunched below and far to sea.”
Keldur traditional farm
Iceland, 2022
Lofoten Islands
Norway, 2018
Egil’s Saga: the mound where Egil’s father and son are buried
Borgarnes, Iceland, 2022
Búðir Church, Snæfellsnes
Iceland, 2022
Winterton-on-Sea sand dunes
Norfolk, England, 2008
Reykholt: location of the farm of saga author Snorri Sturlusson
Iceland, 2022
Hornstrandir nature reserve
Iceland, 2017
Grand Shrine, Ise, Japan 2023
“In my palms I hold, Sunbeams in the ancient cedar silence, The Grand Shrine at Ise.”
Gjogv, Eysturoy
Faroe Islands, 2015
Dengie peninsula
Essex, England, 2020
The site of Njál’s Saga (The Saga of Burnt Njál): Bergthórshvoll
Iceland, 2022
Ise-ye Ryokan Inn (established 1815)
Narai, Nakasendo Way, Japan, 2023
Hólar, Skagafjörður district
Iceland, 2023
Lake Ashi (Lake Hakone), on the Tokaido
Hakone [towards Mt Fuji], Japan, 2023
The Kiso River
Kiso Fukushima, Japan, 2023
Starling murmuration, Hen reedbeds
Suffolk, England
Huangshan Mountains
Anhui, China, 2008
Roskilde longship museum
Roskilde, Denmark, 2018
Pakefield man at First Light Festival (summer solstice)
Lowestoft South Beach, Suffolk, 2021
Benten Island
Katsuura, Japan, 2023
Aldeburgh beach, North Sea
Suffolk, England, 2014
Huangshan Mountains
Anhui, China, 2008
St Edmunds Way
Nayland, Suffolk, 2016
Arger Fen, Stour Valley
Suffolk, 2017
The Broomway (wetroad), Maplin Sands
Essex, 2008
Hólar, Skagafjörður district
Iceland, 2022
Pink-footed geese at dawn
North Norfolk, 2007
The Kiso River
Kiso Fukujima, Japan, 2023
Huangshan Mountains
Anhui, China, 2008
Sailing barges
River Stour, Suffolk/Essex, 2018
Torii Pass, Kisokaido (Nakasendo Way)
Japan, 2023
Shinto spring ceremony, Asakusa Shrine
Tokyo, 2023
Orford Ness (lighthouse now lost to sea erosion)
Suffolk, 2007
Hornstrandir nature reserve
Northern Iceland, 2017
Nakansendo Way (pilgrimage route)
Japan, 2023
St Peter’s chapel (built 662 CE)
Dengie, Essex, 2007
Keeler salt flats, and Sierra Nevada
California, USA, 2009
Nakansendo Way (pilgrimage route)
Japan, 2023
Atchafalaya swamp
Louisiana, USA, 2011
Heimæy (site of 1973 volcanic eruption)
Westmann Isles, Iceland, 2022
Shingle Street, shell line
Suffolk, 2007
Notting Hill, London 2024
“Hurried walking in the leafy streets, To catch the night train, Halting for the trotting fox of Notting Hill. ”
Joki-in Temple
Koyasan, Japan, 2023
Alftanes church (site of Egil’s Saga)
Iceland, 2022
Benten Island
Katsuura, Japan, 2023
Southend beach
Essex, England, 2007
Arnastapi, Snaefelsnes
Iceland, 2022
Plastic waste from Arctic Sea beach
Northeast Iceland, 2014
Fudo-zakaguchi Buddha
Koyasan, Japan, 2023
Lofoten Islands
Norway, 2018
River Crouch
Essex, England, 2007
Stapavik beach
north-east Iceland, 2014
Whale watching, Husavik Bay
Iceland, 2014
Aldeburgh lifeboat
Suffolk, England, 2008
Kongobu-ji Temple
Koyasan, Japan, 2022
Starling flock, Dengie peninsula
Essex, England, 2007
Lofoten Islands
Norway, 2018
Husavik whale watching
Iceland, 2014
Vatnsdalur
Iceland, 2022
Obsidian, Amber, Petrified Tree, Victorian medicine bottles
Armenia, North Sea, Tanzania, Northamptonshire UK, 2000-2010
Autumn beech, Stour Valley
Suffolk, England, 2012
Felixstowe, Suffolk 2024
“One Sunday morning on the sunlit promenade, Walking talking people swimming drinking coffee, At the anchorage a queue of cargo ships.”
Svolvær, Lofoten Islands
Norway, 2018
Garden of A Thousand Jizo, Zōjō-ji Temple
Tokyo, Japan, 2023
Martham Broad
Norfolk, England, 2008
Lindisfarne harbour and castle
Northumberland
Traditional farm
Iceland, 2014
Stour Estuary
Suffolk/Essex, England, 2021
Timbisha dunes (Death Valley)
California, USA, 2009
Win Green Hill
Wiltshire, England, 2021
St Kilda islands
North Atlantic, Scotland, 2022
Dyrfjäll mountains
North-East Iceland, 2014
Win Green Hill
Wiltshire, England, 2021
Stour Valley
Essex, England, 2020
Lamarsh, Stour Valley
Essex, England, 2021
St Kilda
Scotland, 2022
Lackford Lakes nature reserve
Suffolk, 2024
The site of Egil’s Saga: statue for his foster mother Thorgerd Brak, drowned off Borganes
Borganes, Iceland, 2022
Santuari de la Mare de Déu del Puig
Mallorca, Spain, 2021
Puig de Sant Marti
Mallorca, Spain, 2021
Surtsey from The Westmann Isles
Iceland, 2022
Hellissandur
Iceland, 2022
St Ninians Isle
Shetland Isles, Scotland, 2016
Ice fishing, Lake Puravesi
Finland, 2009
Fudo-zakaguchi Buddha, Koyasan
Japan, 2023
Sea kale
Sufolk coast, 2014
Okunoin, Buddhist cemetery, Mount Kōya, establ. 835 CE, Japan 2023
“They’re not the kind of smiling titans, Given to tearing up the earth, The ancient cedars of the mountain mausoleum.”
November 5th Fireworks Night
Nayland, Suffolk, 2012
Nyonin-michi pilgrim route, Koyasan
Japan, 2023
Green men
Tiger Hill, Stour Valley, Suffolk, 2011
Stour Valley, Boxted
Essex looking towards Suffolk, 2014