Tag: photography
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Exhibition!
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in photosI 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 the work would be done: sorting the entries ready for the judging, then the judging…
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Well that was 2024
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in reminiscenceIt’s not been a bad year despite ending with rather a nasty tummy bug between Xmas and New Year. However I do seem to be over that as we ease into 2025 so let’s hope that can be as good. Thinking about the highlights of the year, five as usual. My big little finger op…
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Photos of the month: October 2024
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in photosThis 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…
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The Medicis and more
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We’ve just enjoyed a long weekend in Florence. It’s the fourth time I’ve been there but it’s the first time I’ve spent significant time in the city and although last time we did see Michelangelo’s David and visit the Basilica of Santa Croce which is home to the tombs of most of Florence’s great and…
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Photo of the month: June 2024
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in photosWe went to Jonathan Chatfield’s ordination at Ely Cathedral where I had the opportunity to sit for a while and really appreciate the majesty of the building. This shot was taken looking upwards using my Samsung Galaxy s20 FE 1/50th at f1.8 ISO 250 and a ’35mm focal length equivalent’ of 26mm. I reckon it’s…
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5 from 50
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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 started to see if I can put together similar collections for the 30 years since…
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Street photography
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in photosMonday 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 constraints regarding subject matter. There were some exquisite photographs, mainly birds and bugs. They were…
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What exactly do I photograph? and why?
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in photosI 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, but also talked about their context and the motivations behind them. Check out Mieke’s website,…
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