Category: photos
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Photographs of the month Jan-Jun 2026
For some reason I’ve not been posting photographs of the month this year. This post is a quick catch up of the first six months. January A trompe l’oeil in Grand Arcade in Cambridge. Taken with my Samsung Galaxy S20FE mobile phone; 1/100th at f1.8 and ISO250, and a focal length of 26mm (35mm equivalent)…
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Scarborough, Whitby + the North Yorks Moors
At the beginning of last month I joined a photo holiday run by LSP holidays, led by the impressive Lillian Spibey and based on Scarborough. It was first class. The weather wasn’t great but the worst was limited to the first morning when we were on the North Yorkshire Moors. There was on and off…
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Corsica is a little different
We’ve visited several Mediterranean islands and enjoyed holidays on the coast in Italy and France and they’re generally characterised by complex histories with multiple invasions which have left their stamp. Not so Corsica. It might be over simplifying it but Corsica’s history spans the eighteenth century and not much more. Earlier it was run from…
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It’s nice to be recognised
I wasn’t sure what I would get when I joined the Cambridge Camera Club eighteen months ago. I was perhaps surprised that bird and insect photographs seemed to dominate the top positions in competitions, that most of the focus seemed to be on setting up and post -processing and that there was a world of…
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Photo of the month: December 2025
This is a Xmas day shot taken in the kitchen at Alex and Clare’s house. Alex was cooking the Xmas lunch and I stood by to give him advice. I was looking for a photo that conveyed the sensation of ‘heat’. Does this one work? It was taken using my Sony RX100 VII 1/60th at…
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So that was 2025!
At least it ended on a positive note with a fine but very cold day, my blood pressure at 122/65 and my heart rate at 53. I weighed in this morning at 65.4 kg. Last year the numbers were 120/62 and 54 and 65.5 kg meaning no significant change over the year. I continue to…
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Photo of the month: November 2025
As a member of the Cambridge Camera Club I join many of its photo walks. As the person with a responsibility for looking after new members I encourage them to join the walks and take the opportunity to tap the experience of other members and to share their passions with us. In November we went…
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The big reset
I’m a bit of a photographer and I pride myself on taking photographs which are technically good and tell stories. I use Lightroom as a cataloging system and score many of my images using its star system: one to five (or none). I have generally just used grades three to five. In my 20 plus…
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Photo of the month: October 2025
We 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!
Cambridge 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.…