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Category Archives: Street Photography
Falun Gong
‘The Falun Gong 24-hour peaceful protest has continued for almost 13 years outside the Chinese Embassy in [Portland Place] London. July will see the 13th year after the Communist Party of China (CPC) enforced the Falun Gong ban in July 2009. CPC also initiated a … Continue reading
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Banking
I went to an informal coffee and cake morning today at which Philip Augar spoke about ‘Writing for a Living – Financial Times and Others’. An ex-banker himself, he was among the first to note in the mid-2000s the pickle … Continue reading
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Newton
Newton, sometimes known as Newton after Blake, is a sculpture by the Eduardo Paolozzi in the piazza outside the British Library. It is based on William Blake’s 1795 print of Newton: Personification of Man Limited by Reason, which shows Isaac … Continue reading
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The Knowledge
The writer Patrick Leigh Fermor believed passionately in having well-stocked shelves of reference books close to hand, ‘…and they must be near the dinner table where arguments spring up which have to be settled then or never.’ The knowledge is … Continue reading
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Travel Bags
I’m sure there is a thesis to be written on what our travel bags say about us. Travelling writers would provide good case studies. Patrick Leigh Fermor, about to set out on his trudge across Europe in 1933, stopped off … Continue reading
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Deckchair
I sat in the sun I moved my chair into sun I sat in the sun the way hunger is moved when called fasting. Jane Hirshfield Photo: Green Park, London, 2011
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U3AC Photo Forum 11 – Street Photography
‘Street photography: observing or connecting?’ was the question Jane Lynas and I posed to the U3AC Photography Forum yesterday. Our starting points were that street photography: pictures people and everyday life in public spaces; relies on serendipity and ambiguity; explores … Continue reading
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Keeping On
On Monday I went to see ‘Cezanne – Portraits of a Life’ at the Cambridge Picturehouse. It’s a Screen Arts production based on the exhibition showing at the National Portrait Gallery. Fascinating insights into an extraordinary body of work, if … Continue reading
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Pigeons – Trafalgar Square
One of the most exciting things about going to London as a child was feeding the pigeons in Trafalgar Square. We bought bags of food – I remember it as peas, but maybe it was corn – from the vendors … Continue reading
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1,000th Post
This is my one thousandth post; the first was a picture of Southwark Bridge on 18th October 2010. Each post has at least one photograph, some several, so well over a thousand pictures in total (including some not by me). … Continue reading
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U3AC Photo Forum 7 – What Makes a Good Picture?
Gerry Metcalfe, camera club member and photo judge of 20 plus years took the Forum through the challenges of judging. The post on 21st July 2017 covers an earlier presentation to the U3AC by Gerry. His views on judging? ‘It’s … Continue reading
Street Photography
Next term I shall be leading a session on street photography at the U3AC Photo Forum. What is street photography? Westerbeck and Meyerowitz write about: ‘…pictures of people who are going about their business unaware of the photographer’s presence. They … Continue reading
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Pied Piper
The Pied Piper of Hamelin is the eponymous character in a legend dating back to the Middle Ages from the German town of Hamelin. The story describes a piper dressed in multi-coloured clothing, who is a rat-catcher hired by the … Continue reading
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Urban Photographs
Roger Estop has an excellent blog: ‘Reading urban photographs – What photographs tell us about places’ (readingurbanphotographs.com). In a posting, ‘Urbanism through the window’, Roger quotes a definition that, ‘Urban design is everything that you can see out of the window’; and … Continue reading
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Clocks
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, / Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, / Silence the pianos and with muffled drum / Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come. The first, less well-known, version … Continue reading
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