Category: photos
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Photo of the Month: March 2024
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in photosI was in Cambridge with my DSLR for a specific purpose and that was not to engage in street photography. However when the opportunity arises you’ve got to take it and a phone is an easier device to use in such circumstances. In this instance I suspect it was as much street performance as street…
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Cuba remembered
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Last night at the Cambridge Camera Club we saw the results of a recent trip to Cuba by Roy Essary (https://shuttershot.co.uk/). It prompted me to go back and look at the photos I’d taken when we visited in 2009. I was using a Sony DSLR A300 in those days and although most of the shots…
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5 from 50
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That’s 5 photographs from 50 years ago. I’ve published two collections of my first two decades of digital photography starting in 2004. As chance would have it I bought my first SLR (single lens reflex) camera in 1974 so I’ve started to see if I can put together similar collections for the 30 years since…
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Photo of the Month: February 2024
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in photosWisbech sadly is not the town it was. It used to be a thriving trading post with the elegant buildings that would go with it. And it was home to social pioneers like Octavia Hill (urban poverty) and Thomas Clarkson (slavery). In recent years it’s become dependant on agriculture with the its low wages and…
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Photo of the Month: January 2024
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in photosThis is one of those photos which I thought I must take after seeing a photographer with his tripod taking it one sunny day on Harrison Way in St Ives. A day or so later I was ready and parked conveniently. Sadly the sun was not shining and all I had was my mobile. However…
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Street photography
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in photosMonday night and I was at the Cambridge Camera Club again. It was a judging evening for PDI 3, the final part of its competition whereby members submitted three images, one for each round, for external judging and with no constraints regarding subject matter. There were some exquisite photographs, mainly birds and bugs. They were…
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A picture for every year: 2007 to 2021
Finally: fifteen years of digital and colour! Top left is me (front row next to Abi) at the Histon Station protest. Then it’s me with Juni in Hong Kong and, more travel, me in Cuba. Then it’s a first Hawarden Grammar School reunion with, L to R, Deidre Cartwright, me, Ron Liversedge (sadly died) and…
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What exactly do I photograph? and why?
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in photosI attended an excellent Cambridge Camera Club zoom event with Mieke Boynton. Mieke is an Australian photographer of landscapes and aerials and she gave an excellent presentation in which she didn’t just show photographs, which many are inclined to do, but also talked about their context and the motivations behind them. Check out Mieke’s website,…
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Photo of the Month: December 2023
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in photosThis is an unusual shot for me in that I’ve changed the photo with a little judicious post-processing. It’s a picture of one of the big baubles hanging in Grand Arcade but then I’ve applied a radial blur to the background whilst keeping the subject itself in sharp focus. I think it works but is…
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One photo a year: another decade of digital photography (2014 to 2023)
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in photosWe’re coming to the end of my second decade of digital photography so I’ve brought together a collection of some of my better photos of the period. I hope you enjoy them.
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