Ingo Arndt / Mangove Islands, aerial shot, Ten Thousand Islands, Everglades National Park, Florida, USA, January 2015.

David Tipling / Cockerel mosaic from a 2nd century AD Roman pavement from Acholla, Tunisia. Now in Bardo Museum Tunisia. Xenia (hospitality) motif, the cockerel would have been a symbol of food.

David Tipling / Peacock mosaic in the ornate Mor Chowk (Peacock Courtyard) Udaipur City Palace, constructed during the reign of Rana Karan Singhji. Peacocks were added later by Maharana Sajjan Singhji during 1874-18...

David Tipling / Mosaic of Pheasant (Phasanidae) and Cockerel one of many mosaics depicting birds in the Villa of the Aviary - peristilium (courtyard) at Carthage Tunisia. Roman dating to around 3rd century AD.

David Tipling / Roman mosaic of a Partridge probably a Barbary partridge (Alectoris barbara) one of many mosaics depicting birds in the Villa of the Aviary - peristilium (courtyard) at Carthage Tunisia. From around 3...

David Tipling / Mosaic of trapped thrushes, from late 2nd century Roman from pavement of a triclinium (dining room) at Thysdrus, El-Jem, Tunisia. Mosaic in Bardo Museum, photographed with permit.

Juan Manuel Borrero / Bar de Quadras Palace a modernist building, designed by architect Josep Puig i Cadafalch, Eixample District, Barcelona City, Spain, March 2011

Toby Roxburgh / Fountain in the courtyard garden of the Bahia Place, Marrakech, Morocco, March 2010.

Toby Roxburgh / Large open courtyard in the Bahia Palace, Marrakech, Morocco, March 2010.

Toby Roxburgh / Courtyard fountain, Bahia Place, Marrakech, Morocco, March 2010.

Eric Baccega / Woman standing beside little chapel in Guernsey, Channel Islands, May 2009. A French priest built it at the beginning of the 20th century with seashells, pebbles and colourful pieces of broken ceramic...

Eric Baccega / Woman standing beside little chapel in Guernsey, Channel Islands, May 2009. A French priest built it at the beginning of the 20th century with seashells, pebbles and colourful pieces of broken ceramic...