Category: photos
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Photo of the month: October 2025
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in photosWe enjoyed a week in Spain during the month and that yielded multiple photo ops but this one came right at the beginning as we waited for our bags at Madrid’s Adolfo Suarez airport. It’s an impressive airport just as long as you don’t have to use it! This was taken with my Samsung Galaxy…
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Bloody Hell I won!
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in photosCambridge Camera Club runs several competitions during the year and they’re mostly won by expert photographers. They’re not just technically expert and skilled at using Photoshop etc they’re also expert on their chosen genre and have the patience that’s needed with it. I maybe OK on the first two but fall down on the last.…
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Exhibition!
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in photosI spent much of last weekend helping with the preparation for Cambridge Camera Club’s 2025 exhibition. I had believed it to be a fairly labour intensive and involved activity and I was not wrong. This weekend was when most of the work would be done: sorting the entries ready for the judging, then the judging…
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Photo of the month: September 2025
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in photosAnother month , another flower photo. I guess flowers are to some extent easy because they don’t move. The annual dahlia and cake competition at Histon Manor should present lots of photo opportunities but the weather wasn’t great. But I went along and gave it a go. This was taken using my Sony RX100 VII…
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Photo of the month: August 2025
It’s another sports photo this month as I spent a very pleasant and productive afternoon at the Cambridge Criterium cycle event. Lots of action and very colourful so plan ty of scope for photography. This is one of my photos from the afternoon and was taken was taken with my Sony A7 III 1/80th at…
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Is this the ultimate accolade?
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in photosHiston & Impington Green Spaces (HIGS) publishes a calendar each year and invites photographers to submit photos which are then judged by an ‘expert’ panel. The chosen 13, one for each month and one for the back page, are then subject to a public vote to select one for the front cover. The photos should…
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High key, low key
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in photosAt Cambridge Camera Club’s Photo Forum Special Interest Group this month members shared images that might be described as ‘high key’ or ‘low key’. I shared four such photographs but first what do we mean by high key and low key. Click here for a useful article and this definition. While Low-Key photography plays with deep shadows…
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Photo of the month: July 2025
Not my usual genre but it was an opportunity not to be missed. Cambridge City was opening its new ground with a friendly against Cambridge United and I got the opportunity to go pitch-side. ‘Wear a high-viz’ they said. It was quite an experience so with my camera on burst mode I took a fair…
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Photo of the month: June 2025
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in photosAt a recent Cambridge Camera Club event one of the ‘senior’ members who knows what he’s talking about pointed out that my portfolio was short of photos ‘needing a fast shutter speed’. That often means sport so I spent an afternoon taking photos at the May Bumps. This is one of my photos from the…
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Photo of the month: May 2025
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in photosA rose by any other name … it’s a climbing rose on the east facing side of our house and its blooms have been extraordinary this year. It’s nominally white but I really like it’s creaminess. This was taken using my Sony RX100 VII 1/125th at f8 and ISO320 and a 35mm equivalent zoom of…
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