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  • Apr 20: photo of the month

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    This is Buster and it’s a more complicated and timely photo this month.

  • Feb 20: photo of the month

    Feb 20: photo of the month

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    Back to Cambridge this month for a peep at King’s College down St Edward’s Passage. This was taken with my Sony Xperia XZ1, 1/160th at f2.0 and ISO40. The focal length was 4.4mm. I confess to a little post processing including adding some colour to an otherwise drab sky.

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    Here’s another photo from our trip to Indonesia over Xmas and the New Year. It’s taken in Fatahillah Square in Jakarta on the first Sunday of the year when it was full of people being out, relaxing and looking for Instagram opportunities. There are lots of living statues and this photo is of a Javanese…

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    I need to get 2019 completed so that I can start on 2020 so here’s Dec 19’s photo and, rather inevitably, it’s from Indonesia and it’s a simple photo of the daughter of the guy from whom we bough fresh fruit at his roadside stall near Bandung, Indonesia. The photo was taken with my Sony…

  • Nov 19: photo of the month

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    I seemed to take a lot of beer photos during the month and with me having ‘perfected’ a process I could have chosen any of them for the monthly award. However this one’s of Wrexham Lager which connects me with my drinking days of the late 60s. We used to call it Chateau Wrexham. Anyway…

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    Good to have a photo from my DSLR this month after a run of phone photos. The subject is one of Mrs J’s flower arrangements and I really like the dusty cream of the rose. The photo was taken with my Sony alpha 77 II f5.6 at 1/80 and a focal length of 90mm. There’s…

  • Sep 19: photo of the month

    Sep 19: photo of the month

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    It seems to have been a month with no recourse to my DSLR so it was a choice between a bunch of phone photos. This one sums up the summer and is typical of many photos I’ve taken. It’s apparently been a very productive summer agriculturally and my crop of tomatoes has been exceptional. This…

  • Aug 19: photo of the month

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    Sometimes you get a mobile phone photo just right. And I reckon this is one of those times. It’s Ely cathedral of course taken from the garden of the Almonry. This was taken with my Sony Xperia XZ1, 1/2000th sec at f2.0. The original’s been cropped and there’s been some post processing to bring out…

  • Jul 19: photo of the month

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    This is one of those seasonal photos. During the summer growing season the farmers are out watering, fertilising and protecting their crops and they seem to do it at night time. This was taken with my Sony Xperia XZ1, 1/50th sec at f2.0. There’s been a crop and a light touch to darken the sky.

  • Jun 19: photo of the month

    Jun 19: photo of the month

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    I was in Manchester for a couple of days and this photo reflects what can be done with fine old buildings to repurpose them and with Lightroom to sort out the problem of ‘converging verticals’! The building is now a top end hotel, Principal, but it used to be the offices of Refuge Assurance. It…