Dajavous is really a team - DA "the man who can" who takes the best photos, keeps the software updated and the PC running etc under the direction of "she who must be obeyed", JA who writes, researches and cribs the descriptions, adds comments and creates galleries.

A few years ago JA received a new camera of her own - to reduce the wear & tear on DA's ears. (She is learning to frame shots, strictly point & shoot, doesn't mess with the controls but is having lots of fun. DA has had to upgrade the digital storage and backup systems!)

We met at university and will soon have been together for 40 years.

JA likes to make virtual scrapbooks of the places we visit, so you will find many of our sets loaded with comments, text and links to other websites. This can take a great deal of time and I have more projects and galleries 'in progress' than ones that have been completed.

JA is currently undergoing 'a bit of a jigsaw phase'. She favours wooden puzzles and started the flickr group called 'Traditional Wooden Jigsaws' - please drop in for a look. She is also a proud admin of the Artistic Puzzles and Edward Burne Jones groups (and loves to combine her obsessions). She is also helping to build the group, 'Nottinghamshire Parish Churches'.

My galleries fall into two groups:

information galleries (generally about stained glass, art, architecture, places ...)

concepts (often colour-themed).

I still belong to the Flickr galleries group but this is now rudderless, as the admins creating manual lists of people's galleries became inactive after 2013.

[www.flickr.com/groups/galleries/]

I use comments to include photos I've found from other flickr members to illustrate points or cover aspects we overlooked - I am extremely grateful to them all for sharing their photos on flickr and with me. The ability to paste large images in comments is a fantastic tool for comparative research on art and architecture. I hate twinkling award gifs, whose unpopularity threatens this.

It would be impossible to ask permission to feature each individual photo. If you don't like the way I have featured your photo please contact me and I will remove it.