Photo themes are wide and varied and can be of anything... here for example I show a collection of numbers. It was not difficult to find twenty... although if I were asked to provide a complete set from one to one hundred I would have many gaps. That is why I am always on the lookout for more... I don’t keep a list with me, I take what I see and like, and if they are better than the ones I already have the less interesting, colourful or graphic ones can be discarded.

One important aspect with thematic collections... if you plan to show them as I do on the “20 Photo Theme” pages make sure you photograph them with the same orientation. All my “Numbers” and “Personalised Car Registration Plates” are taken in landscape format... whereas “Chimneys” and “Mail Boxes” are as portraits... but “Doors” and “Windows” in nice frontages and “Chimneys” atop interesting roofs have been photographed and filed both ways.

The themed examples on this page were numbers seen on houses in London suburbs, a Welsh narrow-gauge railway coach, shops in Paris, offices in London’s Covent Garden district, a wheelwright’s workshop in Chatham naval Dockyard, edging a bowling green in the Welsh seaside resort of Aberdovey, two cars in France... and elsewhere in places long forgotten. All were taken quite casually in passing... and there are and will always be thousands of others to search out and photograph. This is one theme I will never tire of because of the possible combinations of numerals, colours, graphics and locations... it has become a never ending project.