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Blue Rope

First blue rope post for a long time – seen when walking on Magog Down 12th March 2024.

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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

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Eve

Eve Listening to the Voice of Adam, John Hedges Baily, 1842 (V&A Museum).  ‘This sculpture illustrates a scene from John Milton’s poem “Paradise Lost”.  Turning to Adam to describe “a shape within the watery gleam”, Eve is told it is … Continue reading

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Food

The editors of the Royal Academy of Arts Magazine (no. 162 Spring 2024) asked contributors for their favourite depictions of food. Photographer Benjamin McMahon offered: ‘Stephen Shore’s 1970 photo series “American Surfaces”.  The pictures of food were like nothing else … Continue reading

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Girton Golden Goose Railings

The Golden Goose Railings were commissioned by the Girton Town Charity, created by local artist Matthew Lane Sanderson and installed in 2018.  The railings celebrate four things. Girton geese and quills:  The village has a long relationship with geese as … Continue reading

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Girton Hand

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Only Colour: Kayak Red

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TEN: Neon 1

A possible candidate for Shutter Hub’s TEN project: 10 in the atomic number of neon.

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Shutter Hub: FOOD STORIES

Here’s another new call for submissions from Shutter Hub. We’re inviting you to join us at the table and enter your images for our next Shutter Hub Editions book, FOOD STORIES. Recipes without words, made from memories. From the simple … Continue reading

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U3AC Photo Forum 2023-24 – Week 13 Still Life

Jitka Brynjolffsen introduced us to the world of still life, a genre that can trace its root in painting to the ancient Egyptians and on through the Greeks and the Romans, the Dutch Renaissance and to the Impressionists and Post … Continue reading

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Post-Processing

Further to my piece about the U3A Photo Forum on 23rd January, there are some interesting observations on-post processing from landscape photographer G B Smith in Black+White Photography No. 286. It’s [AI] facilitated a debate around what is an acceptable … Continue reading

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Shutter Hub: TEN

Here’s a new call for submissions from Shutter Hub. To celebrate Shutter Hub’s 10th year, we’re inviting photographers to be a part of our online exhibition exploring the theme of ‘TEN’. Hold your breath and count to ten… or don’t. We’re … Continue reading

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Stuff Matters

We routinely take for granted the materiality of the world around us: we don’t bother to think about why cutlery doesn’t rust, how concrete buildings stand up or why chocolate tastes good.  We don’t ask what goes on in the … Continue reading

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Dogs Welcome

Boxing Day, Ely Cathedral open free for all, including dogs.

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Those We Lost 2023

We are at that time of year when newspapers and broadcast media devote column inches and air time to litanies of those who have died in the past twelve months.  The list in the Review section of today’s Observer records … Continue reading

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