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U3AC Photo Forum 2023-24 – Week 12 Post-Processing

Eleni Paliginis introduced us to the post-processing capabilities of Lightroom Classic.  It is undoubtedly a very powerful programme for working on photographs – some of its tools appear almost magical in the way they understand what’s in the original photograph … Continue reading

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Figures – Agriculture

Bronze of an African woman representing Agriculture, by Czech sculptor and designer Franta Anýž (1876 – 1934), at the entrance of the building on the Via Roma, Trieste built in 1914 by the Živnostenská banka of Prague, now the offices … Continue reading

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Mining the Diaries 75: Italy 2009

2969 Calle Del Forno, Venice, 21st September 2009 Woke about 6.30 and sat by the window reading The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt while Nina slept.  Footsteps, boats and voices outside – the Venetian dawn chorus. After breakfast … Continue reading

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Mining the Diaries 74: Wales 2009

Or’eira, Llanfacherth, Dolgellau, 12th June 2009 To Dolgellau for the cattle market.  A slow start with a few small trailers bringing in sheep – lambs, rams and hoggets. Selling starts at noon. Auctioneer and his assistant stroll across the yard … Continue reading

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Mining the Diaries 72: Italy 2008

2969 Calle Del Forno, Venice, 7th September 2008 This a first floor apartment overlooking the Rio di S. Margherita and the Calle Del Forno.  When the children in the apartment above run about the lights in the dining room chandelier … Continue reading

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Mining the Diaries 69: Italy 2007

Rezzonico Garden 2796 Calle del Traghetto, Venice, 1st September 2007 A morning in what has become one of my favourite place in Venice, the curious, often macabre, Museo Fortuny, in the former Palazzo Pesaro degli Orfei.  Today the dark mystery … Continue reading

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Mining the Diaries 68: Greece 2007

Stone House, Kardamili, 10th July 2007 We set off at 7.15 after an early breakfast and headed south to Areopolis, then onward into the Deep, Mesa, Mani with Patrick Leigh Fermor (Mani – Travels in the Southern Peloponnese, 1958) as … Continue reading

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Mining the Diaries 67: Wales 2007

Or’eira, Llanfacherth, Dolgellau, 9th May 2007 A rainy day in Aberystyth.  I came here with Phil Barradell in 1971 after we had finished our finals; and with David Taylor in 1975 for the RTPI Summer School held at the University, … Continue reading

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Mining the Diaries 66: Morocco 2006

Ryad Mabrouka, Fez, 15th September 2006 Our second day and it’s time to head into the labyrinth, the medina.  It’s claustrophobic and jumbled; dirt is swept into the street; goods are hauled by men and animals; nuts, grains and pulses … Continue reading

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Museo di Palazzo Grimani 1

Unidentified figure in the shadows, Museo di Palazzo Grimani, Venice, May 2023.

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Mining the Diaries 64: Wales 2006

Or’eira, Llanfacherth, Dolgellau, 9th May 2006 Portmeirion:  a curious place.  Clough Williams-Ellis designed and started building it in 1925, supposedly ‘to demonstrate how a naturally beautiful site could be developed without spoiling it.’ Accordingly, it is charming, harmonious and of … Continue reading

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Pylon, Piazza Unità d’Italia, Trieste

Two temporary wooden flag poles were installed in the Piazza Unità d’Italia, Trieste, in 1923.  The Royal Automobile Club of Italy replaced them with bronze ‘pylons’ in 1933.  The pylons are 6 meters high; the sculptural bases, from a sketch … Continue reading

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Fountain of the Tritons, Trieste

The Fountain of the Tritons in Trieste stands on Piazza Vittorio Veneto, in front of the post office. In the middle of the pool there are huge figures: two Tritons and a Nereid. They bend under a giant shell, from … Continue reading

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Mining the Diaries 61: Italy 2005

2796 Calle del Traghetto, Venice, 27th June 2005 This year we have abandoned the Piano Rialzato, though we are still in the sestieri of Dorsodoro.  The entrance to number 2796 is through anonymous wooden double doors directly off the Calle … Continue reading

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Mining the Diaries 60: Wales 2005

Or’eira, Llanfacherth, Dolgellau 11th May 2005 Drove down to Brithdir to the start, north end, of the Torrent Walk. It was created by Thomas Payne for the Richards family of the nearby Caerynwch estate in the late 1800s.  A short … Continue reading

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