Monthly Archives: September 2022

Screen Bias

I’ve been given a new monitor to use with my PC.  It’s a 21” LG Flatron and replaces my 18” Dell.  The image is noticeably brighter and crisper and as a consequence photographs that I’ve been processing in Lightroom look … Continue reading

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Shutter Hub – Everyday Delight

Further to my post of 10th August, I’ve submitted five photographs to Shutter Hub for possible inclusion in its Everyday Delight publication. My accompanying text is as follows: ‘What is ‘everyday delight’?  That which brings delight every day; or everyday … Continue reading

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Mining the Diaries 5: Suffolk 1979

Garden Lodge, Southwold 4th July 1979 I noticed soon after our arrival here that Southwold has many distinctive signs on shops and businesses.  Today, the light looked right for photography and I headed across South Green into the centre to … Continue reading

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Radical Art in Cambridge

I posted an item, ‘Cambridge Darkroom – Planning and Photography’, on 15th August 2022.  This came out of a discussion I had with two researchers, Alina Khakoo and Lucy Howie, who are looking at creative activities in Cambridge in the … Continue reading

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Photography in Fiction – Various

In the penultimate section of On Photography (1973), ‘The Image-World’, Susan Sontag draws on how photography is treated in six works of fiction in her exploration of the nature of the medium. They are given here in chronological order. Pierre; … Continue reading

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Hunstanton

A peril of bicycling on a beach: sand in the gears.

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Traces of Erewhon 30-33

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Ravilious Recalled

A walk at Bartlow yesterday.  Starting at the Three Hills pub and heading south towards Ashdon, taking an anticlockwise loop back up to the village.  On the way we paused at a bridge over the old railway line. The sun … Continue reading

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Mining the Diaries 4: Norfolk 1978

May Cottage, Titchwell 15th September 1978 On Titchwell Marsh under a cloud-plumed sky buffeted by a strong westerly wind.  A multitude of greens graced with the pink and mauve of thrift and sea lavender.  At the margins, mats of tide-driven … Continue reading

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Travellers – Citi 1 Bus

Distractions for travellers. Who’s paying attention to what? Who’s engaged with the world around them? Where’s my stop?

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Mining the Diaries 3: Norfolk 1977

135 Beach Road, California, 20th October 1977 Holidays always seem to be a time for the discovery of new names (onomastics), the result of being on unfamiliar territory, I guess.  Two pubs, the Mustard Pot (Norwich) and the Barking Smack … Continue reading

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