I write about my life: experience, memories and some photography.
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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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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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