Sometimes places I visit have an almost tangible atmosphere, stirring feelings and emotions that can transport me back in time. Yet other places leave me happy to be stood there in the present day, surrounded and enveloped by the mood of the moment.

Most of the time these feelings bring about a sense of worth and warmth, and normally always fill me with the need to hang on to them, just so I can go back in time to again re-experience them. Happy times that have the power to create an enduring smile that I can wear for the day.

Every now and then though I have great difficulty in trying to work out and put into words the sensations of the experience, especially those of places that have suffered and endured times of great hardship through illness or war. Nonetheless, for me, these are still worth holding on to, reminders of folk just like me that perhaps laid down their freedom and lives to allow for the 2009 that we have today.

The images that follow are one's that provoked a feeling, sensation or emotion, something that popped up that mental flag that says "I like this, I want to keep it".

I'll do my best to describe why I took the images that follow and the emotions they stirred, but I want to be brief and vague enough for you to perhaps experience something of your own. Life is rich with experiences that we can usually claim for free, we just need to be tuned into the right frequency to hear them...