I write about my life: experience, memories and some photography.
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We’ve just got back from a week in ‘historic Spain’ starting in Madrid and then spending time in el Escorial, Segovia, Avila, Salamanca and Toledo. It was a full on experience and I reckon it could usefully have been split…
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Bloody Hell I won!
Cambridge Camera Club runs several competitions during the year and they’re mostly won by expert photographers. They’re not just technically expert and skilled at using Photoshop etc they’re also expert on their chosen genre and have the patience that’s needed…
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Exhibition!
I spent much of last weekend helping with the preparation for Cambridge Camera Club’s 2025 exhibition. I had believed it to be a fairly labour intensive and involved activity and I was not wrong. This weekend was when most of…
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Photo of the month: September 2025
Another month , another flower photo. I guess flowers are to some extent easy because they don’t move. The annual dahlia and cake competition at Histon Manor should present lots of photo opportunities but the weather wasn’t great. But I…
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One year on (Dupuytrens 7)
It’s been a year now: how’s my right little finger doing? I was pretty good at massage and exercise for the rest of last year but have to confess that I’ve done less this year although I still do some.…
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Photo of the month: August 2025
It’s another sports photo this month as I spent a very pleasant and productive afternoon at the Cambridge Criterium cycle event. Lots of action and very colourful so plan ty of scope for photography. This is one of my photos…
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Is this the ultimate accolade?
Histon & Impington Green Spaces (HIGS) publishes a calendar each year and invites photographers to submit photos which are then judged by an ‘expert’ panel. The chosen 13, one for each month and one for the back page, are then…
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High key, low key
At Cambridge Camera Club’s Photo Forum Special Interest Group this month members shared images that might be described as ‘high key’ or ‘low key’. I shared four such photographs but first what do we mean by high key and low…
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Photo of the month: July 2025
Not my usual genre but it was an opportunity not to be missed. Cambridge City was opening its new ground with a friendly against Cambridge United and I got the opportunity to go pitch-side. ‘Wear a high-viz’ they said. It…
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5 memorable business trips (2)
This is the second in my series of posts about particularly memorable business trips. As with the first (click here) it dates back to pre-email times 2 On my own in the old Yugoslavia It was in the mid to…
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