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  • 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…

  • Good teeth, bad teeth

    Good teeth, bad teeth

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    I first went to the dentist way back in the early 50s when dental practice was fairly primitive: needles seemed blunt, fillings took an age to cure, loud scary drills driven by string ran hot and even though Xrays would have existed they weren’t in common use. It seemed like the practice of dentistry had…

  • Oman Oman

    Oman Oman

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    It was the middle of December, we’d returned from a week’s break in Oman and it was time to reflect a little. Here’s what I wrote for the group which got together at last year’s writing class and which continues us to meet so that we have an excuse, nay an obligation, to keep writing.

  • I’ve got a cold

    I’ve got a cold

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    Nothing unusual about that but as with most of my experiences these days it prompts a little reflection.

  • stop the line!

    stop the line!

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    Anyone who’s read my blog posts will sense an obsession with coffee shops, breakfast and routine. These come together when I’ve got an early start to do the weekly shop at Waitrose.

  • Jul 18: photo of the month

    Jul 18: photo of the month

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    Lots of competition this month, I seem to have had lots of photographable experiences and taken halfways decent photos of many of them. Here’s the best of a super bunch and it’s the moment that James Alexander Bradbury gets his name at the parish church in Wetherby. The photo was taken using my Sony alpha…

  • on my radar …

    on my radar …

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    It didn’t last very long. I started what I thought might be a weekly review back in September last year (https://wp.me/phtcF-IZ). I wrote just 2. Maybe it should be an occasional review. Anyway here’s one for the past week.

  • Jan 18: photo of the month

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    It seems to have been a rather humdrum month for photos. Plenty of worthy photos related to activity during the month but nothing exceptional from a photographic standpoint so this is the best of a perhaps average bunch. The photo is of fish and chips at the Red Lion. It’s a feature of the Wednesday…

  • on reading the newspaper

    on reading the newspaper

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    I guess I’m of an era. I read a newspaper. In fact I’ve got one on subscription and if I haven’t bought one all day I’ll still go along to the newsagent at 10pm and pick one up. I just like to read a newspaper.