I write about my life: experience, memories and some photography.
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I’m fortunate. I’ve enjoyed lots of travel and had good experiences as I’ve done so. For much of the time it’s been business travel but a lot has also been vacations when I’ve shared it with my family. In this…
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Cyprus: it’s not just lemons
I’ve realised that the Law of Inevitable Disappointment applies to holidays. You go full of expectations and there’s always one that fails to deliver. Cue disappointment! However there is a rider viz there’s always some unexpected experience which more than…
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Photo of the Month: March 2024
I was in Cambridge with my DSLR for a specific purpose and that was not to engage in street photography. However when the opportunity arises you’ve got to take it and a phone is an easier device to use in…
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today’s gratitude list.
I came across this blog today: https://heardandfelt.wordpress.com/ It’s got some good thought provoking content but I feel I’m being short changed because the author doesn’t tell me much about him/herself. I sense it’s a woman, apologies if I’m wrong, and…
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1975: part 1 the sport
At the time I felt that I spent a lifetime in Indonesia but it was barely two years. I arrived in Jakarta the middle of 1974 and left in August 1976. But I was there for the whole of 1975.…
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Cuba remembered
Last night at the Cambridge Camera Club we saw the results of a recent trip to Cuba by Roy Essary (https://shuttershot.co.uk/). It prompted me to go back and look at the photos I’d taken when we visited in 2009. I…
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1974: a big transition
It began with the miners strike and it ended with me sat at a pool bar in Bali. It was quite a year. (the photo above is a passport photo I got taken early in the year in anticipation of…
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5 from 50
That’s 5 photographs from 50 years ago. I’ve published two collections of my first two decades of digital photography starting in 2004. As chance would have it I bought my first SLR (single lens reflex) camera in 1974 so I’ve…
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Mates
It seems to be an accepted truism that men don’t make and keep friends like women do. I can relate to that and given that I’m (a) a bit of an introvert, and (b) not inclined to retain contact with…
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Photo of the Month: February 2024
Wisbech sadly is not the town it was. It used to be a thriving trading post with the elegant buildings that would go with it. And it was home to social pioneers like Octavia Hill (urban poverty) and Thomas Clarkson…
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