-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
- Brian Human on Cream Tea
- Roy on Cream Tea
- Brian Human on Double Exposures
- Roy on Double Exposures
- Brian Human on Photo Wallets
- Annebella Pollen on Photo Wallets
- Brian Human on Analog Disincentives
- Roy on Analog Disincentives
- Brian Human on Spanish Adventure, Norman Lewis
- Peter Kersh on Spanish Adventure, Norman Lewis
Archives
- March 2024
- February 2024
- January 2024
- December 2023
- November 2023
- October 2023
- September 2023
- August 2023
- July 2023
- June 2023
- May 2023
- April 2023
- March 2023
- February 2023
- January 2023
- December 2022
- November 2022
- October 2022
- September 2022
- August 2022
- July 2022
- June 2022
- May 2022
- April 2022
- March 2022
- February 2022
- January 2022
- December 2021
- November 2021
- October 2021
- September 2021
- August 2021
- July 2021
- June 2021
- May 2021
- April 2021
- March 2021
- February 2021
- January 2021
- December 2020
- November 2020
- October 2020
- September 2020
- August 2020
- July 2020
- June 2020
- May 2020
- April 2020
- March 2020
- February 2020
- January 2020
- December 2019
- November 2019
- October 2019
- September 2019
- August 2019
- July 2019
- June 2019
- May 2019
- April 2019
- March 2019
- February 2019
- January 2019
- December 2018
- November 2018
- October 2018
- September 2018
- August 2018
- July 2018
- June 2018
- May 2018
- April 2018
- March 2018
- February 2018
- January 2018
- December 2017
- November 2017
- October 2017
- September 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- June 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
Categories
- 100 Photographs
- Anglesey Abbey
- Blue Rope
- Cafes
- Cambridge
- Covid 19
- Endings
- Erewhon
- Fen Landscape
- Figures
- Film
- Film Ends
- In Plain View/Light
- Joan Leigh Fermor
- Land Sea Sky
- Mining the Diaries
- Only Colour
- Photography in Fiction
- Remains
- Ruckenfigur – Rear View
- Shingle Street
- Silent Figures
- Street Photography
- Take a Seat
- The Beechwoods
- The Mani
- Travellers
- Travels
- U3AC Photography Courses
- Uncategorized
- Undertow
- Urban Ephemera
- Venice
- Voyage Round My Room
- Walking
Meta
Monthly Archives: October 2016
Fenscape 9
7.30 am today on the path along the Great Ouse from the Lazy Otter. Little light in the sky: birds overhead are ghostly flickering shapes; a murmuration of starlings is a shifting smoky smudge in the distance. I take a … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Fenscape 8
I said in Fenscape 7 that ‘the scale of the Fens shrinks all human activity’. There is an internal contradiction in this: the Fens are an entirely artificial landscape created by the ingenuity of drainage engineers and farmers over several … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Traces and Signs
remains /ri’maynz/ n pl 1 a remaining part or trace sign /sien/ n 6a something material or external that stands for or signifies something spiritual symbol /’simbl/ n 1 something that stands for or suggests something else by reason of … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Fenscape 7
A flight of grey lag geese wheels noisily overhead; eight gothic cormorants take off in fright from the Cam. Early morning walks reveal the delights of a waking world. Kingfishers skim gaudily over the water, swans are serene and chattering … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Fruitful Tree
Nature is marvellous in its beauty and fecundity. It is also extraordinary in its wastefulness: myriad offspring are produced in the expectation that only a few will survive to maturity; wasteful, but evolution has made it a strategy that works. … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Wimpole Hall – Public Art
“A specially-commissioned contemporary artwork by NEON, an award-winning design practice that seeks to explore new territories between architecture, design and art. Inspired by Brown’s designed landscape as a series of picturesque views, or scenes, NEON invites us to follow in … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
2 Comments
Yoanna Prodanova, cellist
U3A Music Club today at the Friends Meeting House, Cambridge. The Morisot Piano Trio played a programme, ‘Aimez-vous Brahams’, comprising the Cello Sonata No. 2 in F major, Op.99 and the Piano Trio No.1 in B major, Op. 8. Mihai … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Fenscape 6
I don’t think I’ve seen a trace of a hut underneath the bank of the River Ouse before. I guess it has been by the river for a long time because it has collapsed and the corrugated iron hast … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Unilever House
Lovers of Marmite and Hellmann’s Mayonnaise probably knew little, and cared less, about Unilever until the spat with Tesco over pricing threatened to remove their favourites from the supermarket’s shelves. Equally, users of Blackfriars Station would be unlikely to associate … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Pizza Delivery
London, global city, cultural capital, city of dreams, city of opportunity. Openings galore for the brightest and best – from across Europe for the time being – good pay, and even internships are rewarded with prospects. Collecting the lunchtime pizzas? … Continue reading
Posted in Street Photography
Leave a comment
Georgia O’Keeffe
To see Georgia O’Keeffe exhibition at Tate Modern yesterday. Illuminating show exploring all her work and revealing that there is so much more to it than the brilliant, but over familiar, flowers. A big show too – the thirteen rooms … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Fenscape 5
Inspired by the SBH blog to revisit this image. Not sure it works. Photo: Beach Ditch, Landbeach – Cottenham, Cambs 161010
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Fenscape 4
Early morning walk on the Fen edge between Landbeach and Cottenham. Blue, silver and gold in the skies. Grey lags honking nervously on the stubble; pheasants clattering and whirring out of hedges. Splashes followed by silent gentle ripples in the … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Mannequin Photo Book
I’m making progress with my photo book of mannequins. Following a short introduction, the first sections covering the Unreal and Ideal, Abstraction, Gender & Race, Agalmatophilia, Automatonophobia, Mannequin Art and Live Mannequins are almost complete, except for an additional picture … Continue reading
Posted in Silent Figures
Leave a comment
Fenscape 3 Cottenham
Photo: Early morning fen edge towards Cottenham, Cambs, 1st October 2016
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment