Monthly Archives: August 2016

Grey Lag Geese

I’m neither inclined nor equipped to do wildlife photography, but I am quite pleased with this quick snap of grey lag geese at Landbeach.  And it’s a reminder of a sun-blest walk on the last day of August. Photo: Grey … Continue reading

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Abstract Mannequin

With mannequins, sometimes simplicity sells.  Independent shops, markets and stalls distance themselves from the high street with minimalist, abstract, conceptual figures.  Outlines, wire frames, straw bundles, glorified coat hangers become signs of alternative lifestyles and aspirations.  Sometimes the minimalist figure … Continue reading

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Cheltenham Signs

Is this urban ephemera?  The signs are from a past age, mostly for products that no longer exist and hence ephemeral.  Yet, unlike modern advertising they are made to last, and have, and hence are durable, if not quite eternal.  … Continue reading

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Crickley Hill

Visited Cheltenham on Friday and Saturday.  Drive out to Crickley Hill Country Park – landscape wonderful (hills!),  weather unkind. Photo: Storm at Crickley Hill, Cheltenham

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Fenners, Cambridge

One of the pleasures of film photography is the extended period of excited anticipation that results from delayed gratification.  It was once those revelatory steps from exposure through processing and a contact sheet to final print; now more likely the … Continue reading

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Botanic Garden

Browsing through files of pictures I came across this image that I hadn’t used before.  The second example of the value of revisiting work. Photo: Cambridge University Botanic Garden, April 2016

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In Plain View – One that got away

In my posting of 16th July 2016, ‘In Plain View – Final’, I showed the book that emerged from this project.  Since then I’ve filed negatives and work prints for easy reference.  Inevitably, in doing this I’ve looked again at … Continue reading

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Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge

I’ve used a bike most days for goodness knows how many years and taken it for granted.  This juxtaposition suddenly made me see the bicycle as a kind of skeleton, a stripped down essence of something, a frame to flesh … Continue reading

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Ely, Cambs

Photo: Ely, River Ouse and rail bridge, August 2016

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Beechwoods – Traces

Entering the Beechwoods is to enter a realm of traces, traces in the land, traces on the trees, traces of human hands, traces of the hand of nature.  Traces of the past, traces of the present.  It is in its … Continue reading

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Gt St Mary’s Passage, Cambridge

Photo: Gt St Mary’s Passage, July 2016

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Sidney Street, Cambridge

Photo: Sidney Street, Cambridge, July 2016

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Mannequins Caged

Surplus mannequins are crowded and caged out of the way in an ugly building; echoes of inhuman treatment to real people. All are white, except for one silver figure.  Do mannequins here reflect racial stereotyping?  Of 244 figures in Cambridge … Continue reading

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Beechwoods – Hollow

The Wildlife Trust’s description of the Beechwoods claims that ‘Medieval plough terraces are still visible beneath the trees’.  I think they are very difficult to pick out.  Another, more obvious feature is the hollow, clear of trees, at the heart … Continue reading

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