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Tag: Cambridge

  • Bloody Hell I won!

    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 with it. I maybe OK on the first two but fall down on the last.…

  • Photos of the month: October 2024

    Photos of the month: October 2024

    This is a special photo for two reasons. Firstly it’s one of the first I took with my new Sony RX1000 VII. It’s a powerful pocket camera and I’ve bought it to fill the gap between my DSLR and my phone: less obtrusive than the former and higher quality images than the latter. So far…

  • Photos of the month: October, November and December

    Oops … this is a bit of a catch-up to make sure that I can round off the year within the year and not some time in 2021. October I drink more wine than I do beer but I don’t have the same regular habit of photographing wine as I do with beer. I’ve spent…

  • Breakfast at Bill’s @billscambridge

    Breakfast at Bill’s @billscambridge

    It doesn’t really have the same cachet as Breakfast at Tiffany’s but I like the alliteration. Until the first Covid lockdown we went to Cambridge just about every Saturday morning and we’d generally have breakfast at Don Pasquale with Tony and Christine. Sadly times have changed. We’ve only been in twice since, Don Pasquale has…

  • Jan 19: photo of the month

    Jan 19: photo of the month

    It wasn’t a bad month for photos but this one came in on the last day and I really like it. I was heading into Cambridge for an 0800 breakfast before an early meeting at the County Council and this shot was just there. It is of course a Cambridge cliche but I reckon it’s…