I write about my life: experience, memories and some photography.
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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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2023 in facts and figures
Google provide a map of where I’ve been in 2023. It’s been a rather more expansive year with no limitations on travel. Internationally I went to Jordan in January and then we went to Piemonte in May and Rhodes in…
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welcome to a new look
I decided that I would become a little more expert in WordPress this year and exercise a little more control over the appearance and working of my website. Well this is it but I guess it’s just the start. I’m…
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References in time
People ask you. ‘What were you doing in 1994?’ for example and it’s generally difficult to answer. Our memories are good but they’re not stored in date form. But there are exceptions and these do enable you to work out…
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Photo of the Month: January 2024
This is one of those photos which I thought I must take after seeing a photographer with his tripod taking it one sunny day on Harrison Way in St Ives. A day or so later I was ready and parked…
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Street photography
Monday 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…
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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…
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Ruanda and Gaza: symptoms of the same malaise
Rishi Sunak and James Cleverly tell us that the Ruanda bill currently paused by the House of Lords is responding to the ‘will of the people’ and that’s it’s therefore wrong to delay it. But the polling would suggest that…
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What exactly do I photograph? and why?
I 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,…
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