-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
- Brian Human on Cream Tea
- Roy on Cream Tea
- Brian Human on Double Exposures
- Roy on Double Exposures
- Brian Human on Photo Wallets
- Annebella Pollen on Photo Wallets
- Brian Human on Analog Disincentives
- Roy on Analog Disincentives
- Brian Human on Spanish Adventure, Norman Lewis
- Peter Kersh on Spanish Adventure, Norman Lewis
Archives
- March 2024
- February 2024
- January 2024
- December 2023
- November 2023
- October 2023
- September 2023
- August 2023
- July 2023
- June 2023
- May 2023
- April 2023
- March 2023
- February 2023
- January 2023
- December 2022
- November 2022
- October 2022
- September 2022
- August 2022
- July 2022
- June 2022
- May 2022
- April 2022
- March 2022
- February 2022
- January 2022
- December 2021
- November 2021
- October 2021
- September 2021
- August 2021
- July 2021
- June 2021
- May 2021
- April 2021
- March 2021
- February 2021
- January 2021
- December 2020
- November 2020
- October 2020
- September 2020
- August 2020
- July 2020
- June 2020
- May 2020
- April 2020
- March 2020
- February 2020
- January 2020
- December 2019
- November 2019
- October 2019
- September 2019
- August 2019
- July 2019
- June 2019
- May 2019
- April 2019
- March 2019
- February 2019
- January 2019
- December 2018
- November 2018
- October 2018
- September 2018
- August 2018
- July 2018
- June 2018
- May 2018
- April 2018
- March 2018
- February 2018
- January 2018
- December 2017
- November 2017
- October 2017
- September 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- June 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
Categories
- 100 Photographs
- Anglesey Abbey
- Blue Rope
- Cafes
- Cambridge
- Covid 19
- Endings
- Erewhon
- Fen Landscape
- Figures
- Film
- Film Ends
- In Plain View/Light
- Joan Leigh Fermor
- Land Sea Sky
- Mining the Diaries
- Only Colour
- Photography in Fiction
- Remains
- Ruckenfigur – Rear View
- Shingle Street
- Silent Figures
- Street Photography
- Take a Seat
- The Beechwoods
- The Mani
- Travellers
- Travels
- U3AC Photography Courses
- Uncategorized
- Undertow
- Urban Ephemera
- Venice
- Voyage Round My Room
- Walking
Meta
Monthly Archives: April 2017
Spring
Yesterday, a sunny early morning walk between banks of frothy cow parsley along the River Cam at Bottisham Lock. Cow parsley Anrhriscus sylvestris: umbrels announcing spring today and summer tomorrow; the scent of flowers and crushed stalks redolent of secret … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Barry Lane
Today The Guardian reported the death of Barry Lane at the age of 72. Sue Isherwood writes: ‘In 1970 he joined the Arts Council as regional art officer, organising 14 touring exhibitions over three years. As the council’s first photography … Continue reading
Posted in Cambridge
Leave a comment
Fenscape 29 – Landscape Memory
Landscape is built up through geology, biology and human land use. It has an objective history, but as we view it we see only what remains, what it wishes to reveal, like the physical presence of a subjective memory. Three … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Cambridge Camera Club
The Cambridge Camera Club’s Annual Exhibition has been on show at the Pitt Press building this week. With 208 mounted prints and 257 projected digital images (PDIs) it embraces all that’s good and bad about the camera club world. On … Continue reading
Posted in Cambridge
Leave a comment
Market Mannequins
Seeing this parade of bright figures yesterday made me think that I should continue with the mannequin project, not treat Mannequins – A Strange Parade (see post 19th February 2017) as the end point. Maybe I will. Or is this … Continue reading
Posted in Cambridge, Street Photography
Leave a comment
John Benton-Harris
Sorry to have missed the recent event with John Benton-Harris in Norwich (http://www.wexphotographic.com/blog/events/2017-04-29-seminar-with-john-benton-harris/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=John-Benton-Harris3). Reading of it took me back to May 1982 when JB-H lead a workshop on social documentary photography at the Cambridge Darkroom, at that time still housed … Continue reading
Posted in Cambridge, Film
Leave a comment
Swavesey
Before Wednesday’s walk at Swavesey I visited my chiropractor, Peter Milbank. He set me the challenge of coming back with photos of a water bird and a curious man made object. Picture below take in Swavesey Market Street gives two … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Fenscape 28
Walking with the U3A group yesterday starting at the White Horse, Swavesey. The route took us along part of the Pathfinders Way, devised to perpetuate the name of the Royal Air Force Pathfinder Force (Group 8), the 43 mile route … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Leica on Film
The excellent film of Julian Barnes’s novel The Sense of an Ending adds to the canon of films that feature an aspect of photography. Tony Webster, the central character, runs a small specialist Leica camera shop. A casual customer is … Continue reading
Posted in Film, In Plain View/Light
Leave a comment
Ambiguity
‘Photographs are ambiguous. Their truths are at best partial, their interpretations myriad….inclusion of sharply rendered and selectively chosen detail amplifies the uncertainty. …. “A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.”’ … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Travels
Leave a comment
Beechwoods – Cambridge Edge
Two little structures sit in a field of beans (or peas) on the edge of Cambridge. Hides for shooters protecting the crop from the hungry pigeons. ‘Hide’, the perfect use of a verb as a noun; in America a ‘blind’, … Continue reading
Posted in Cambridge, The Beechwoods
4 Comments
Only Colour
Asked to choose, I’d have no hesitation in saying I prefer B&W photography to colour. It reveals the essence things through a graphic simplicity that removes the confusion and subjectivity of colour. The tonalities and textures of B&W are beautiful … Continue reading
Posted in Cambridge
Leave a comment
Beechwoods Setting
A disturbed night. Then the day dawned bright and clear and I decided to visit the Beechwoods to re-energise myself. I wanted to try to photograph the woods in their landscape setting. This was not easy. The topography is gently … Continue reading
Posted in Cambridge, The Beechwoods
Leave a comment
Pinhole Poppy
I decided to really put technical perfection to one side and use my pinhole camera on the Beechwoods project. I haven’t used it for nearly a year and was a bit taken aback to find there was still a film … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Technical Perfection
See http://www.wexphotographic.com/blog/features/perspective-does-technical-perfection-in-images-matter/ for an interesting piece on the quest for perfection. I agree with what Ben Davis says in referring to Lange’s Migrant Mother: ‘Such is the power and depth of emotion in the image that any slight errors are … Continue reading
Posted in Travels
2 Comments