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Author Archives: Brian
Shutter Hub TEN
I posted details of Shutter Hub’s call for submission around the number TEN on 21st January 2024. Interpretations could be ‘literal, metaphorical or nostalgic’. A brief mind mapping exercise gave me 30 possible subjects from clocks to cars and green … Continue reading
Perfect Days
Perfect Days is a 2023 film directed by Wim Wenders. Hirayama works as a public toilet cleaner in Tokyo’s smart Shibuya ward, across town from his modest home in an unimproved neighbourhood. He repeats his structured, ritualized life every day starting at dawn. He dedicates his … Continue reading
Reydon, Southwold
Mining the Diaries 98: England Scholars Cottage, Old School Drive Reydon, 4th July 2022 A visit to Snape, a short drive south down the A12. One never knows quite what to expect at The Maltings, the temporary exhibitions of sculpture … Continue reading
Kardamili
Mining the Diaries 97: Greece 205A Anniska Apartments, Kardamili, Greece20th May 2022 After yesterday’s cloudy start, today dawned bright and clear. The first rays of the sun breasted the mountains and picked out the white houses on far Messenia; light … Continue reading
Shutter Hub: DREAMS & VISIONS
Here’s another new call for submissions from Shutter Hub. The second online exhibition in our Curate for the Community series, DREAMS & VISIONS explores ethereal and abstract imagery in an escape from reality through the imagining of otherworldly visions. There … Continue reading
Water Nymph
Water Nymph, Jean Goujon, 1547-49, Victoria and Albert Museum. The original stone reliefs were part of the decoration of a public fountain in Paris. Goujon’s style seems to take inspiration from Italian sculpture.
Issam Kourbaj – Syria Reflection
Mining the Diaries – Reflection Looking back to past travels taxes the fallible memory. Mostly, only high lights and low lights come into focus with the remainder blurred impressions. Photographs, diaries, souvenirs and accumulated ephemera help, of course, but they … Continue reading
U3AC Photo Forum 2023-24 – Week 20 Creative
A session presented jointly by Alasdair, Andrew, Tim and myself looking at ways of achieving visual effects and alternative imagery. Alasdair: using old SLR lenses on digital cameras; tilt adaptors; and the Lensbaby. Andrew: refractions in water; show shutter speeds; … Continue reading
Blue Rope
First blue rope post for a long time – seen when walking on Magog Down 12th March 2024.
Shutter Hub Open 23/24
Shutter Hub has released the following on the recent open exhibition (see blog 12th December 2023). ‘The Shutter Hub OPEN 23/24 ran from 27 November 2023 – 16 February 2024 at the ARB Building at Cambridge University, bringing together over … Continue reading
Alternative Photography
Spent a bit of time yesterday experimenting with Lensball and Bug Eye gadgets in preparation for next week’s U3A Photography Forum.
U3AC Photo Forum 2023-24 – Week 19 Members’ Travel Photographs
Graham Wickens presented travel photographs by members of the Forum. Ten people submitted around 40 pictures – mainly in colour, just a couple in black and white. Destinations ranged from the Hebrides and Felixstowe to Nagasaki and Chatsworth and from … Continue reading
Mercury and Psyche
Mercury and Psyche, Adriaen de Vries, 1593 (V&A Museum). The winged messenger of the gods, Mercury, carries Psyche to be reunited with her lover, Cupid. The entwined figures create a sense of movement and demonstrate De Vries’s compositional skill. The … Continue reading
St Davids
Mining the Diaries 96: Wales Arosfa, Goat Street, St Davids, 12th July 2021 A grey morning; some promising breaks in the sky. We walked down to the chapel at St Nons (it had become something of a pilgrimage) and lit … Continue reading
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