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  • Photo of the Month: November 2023

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    This 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…

  • Life’s too short to drink instant coffee

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    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.

  • Photos of flowers

    Photos of flowers

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    No 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.…

  • Photo of the Month: October 2023

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    Another 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…

  • A picture for every year: 1992 to 2006

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    More choices now as my photo collection becomes more comprehensive and the appearance, in 2004, of my first digital camera.

  • Photo of the Month: September 2023

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    I like photos with colour and people and this one has both. I was in Cambridge and saw this opportunity and was able to quickly fire up my mobile. I’m delighted with the result. It’s a pity about the poster in the window to the right, without it I’d have twice the photo. Maybe I…

  • Photo of the Month: August 2023

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    I was on a mission to take photographs to record Cambridge for a Cambridge Camera Club project. I’d done Lensfield Road and the streets south of it and was heading for Regent Street. I took the opportunity to visit the Catholic Church (the Church of Our Lady of The Assumption and The English Martyrs to…

  • CCC summer competition

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    There was a time when CCC, viz Cambridgeshire County Council, dominated my life. Not any more but another CCC, the Cambridge Camera Club, www.cambcc.org.uk , has crept in. I’ve paid my dues and I’m now a member and look forward to being challenged to improve my photography.

  • Photo of the Month: July 2023

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    This is another result of seeing an opportunity and taking it using my phone. I was driving towards the RSPB site at the Fen Drayton Lakes when I looked right and saw this scene. It reminded me of similar ones that landscape photographers, especially Scandinavian ones, seem to get excited by. This is the windmill…

  • Photo of the Month: June 2023

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    Many of the photos I take are quick spur of the moment shots. Not only have I not spent an age setting the photo up but often I hadn’t even expected the opportunity to arise. And so it was with this one. I was invited round to a friend’s house for a glass of wine.…