Category: photos
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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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Photo of the Month: November 2023
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in photosThis one just crept in at the end of the month following a visit to Anglesey Abbey’s light trail. That’s great value and it’s very well laid out, not just the lights but also the provision of places to eat and drink. We’ll go again next year. The colours on this tree were moving so…
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Life’s too short to drink instant coffee
It’s not quite the same but I spotted this sign in Arequipa when I visited Peru in 2013. I liked the sign and it was one of the positives that day because it began with a bad case of the Big D during the night.
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Photos of flowers
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in photosNo I haven’t sold my soul to the genre of flower photography but I went to a Cambridge Camera Club event this week where the speaker was Hemant Jariwala who is a specialist. I was not inclined to go but Juni encouraged me. ‘You might learn something’ she said. So I did and I did.…
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Photo of the Month: October 2023
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in photosAnother photo with lots of colour this month. This was taken at an event in the Croft Close Set-aside in Histon on a rather cold but sunny Sunday morning. Although I had my DSLR with me this photo was taken with my Samsung Galaxy s20 FE because I wanted to post it immediately on social…
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A picture for every year: 1992 to 2006
More choices now as my photo collection becomes more comprehensive and the appearance, in 2004, of my first digital camera.
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