Monthly Archives: November 2022

Fen Landscape – November

No sun — no moon!No morn — no noon —No dawn — no dusk — no proper time of day. No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,No comfortable feel in any member —No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds! —November! Thomas Hood

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Fen Landscape – Quy Fen

New go-down fence at Quy Fen.

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Fen landscape – Cottenham

Soft early morning shadows at Great North Fen, Cottenham. Note healthy level of water in the Lode – compare with picture posted 23rd August 2022

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Sparrow Hawk

Joined the sparrow hawk club on 24th November. Alerted by the alarm calls of a magpie, I looked out the kitchen window to see a sparrow hawk plucking the breast of a collared dove on the patio. The magpie continued … Continue reading

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Fly me…

Botany Bay (Margate, Kent!) and memories of Frank Sinatra singing the Bart Howard song.

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Autumn Beech

At Angelsey Abbey yesterday enjoying a favourite tree, a mighty beech. Sparked a debate about whether trees can be considered sentient.

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Connecting

‘On Margate Sands. I can connect Nothing with nothing.’ The Waste Land, T. S. Eliot

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Traces of Erewhon 38-40

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Catching the surface

My coffee and walking friend, DaveH, knew that I was talking about voyeurism to the U3AC Arts Forum on Wednesday and sent me this poem. I Am A Cameraman They suffer, and I catch only the surface. The rest is … Continue reading

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All Voyeurs Now?

I’ve posted below the text of a short presentation that I gave to the U3AC Arts Forum yesterday to stimulate discussion around the subject of voyeurism. I took a photograph of a couple cuddling in the seclusion of the Temple … Continue reading

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Margate Birds

I’m rarely tempted to take photographs of birds, but this herring gull (Larus argentatus) and two turnstones (Arenaria interpres) seemed happy to pose on the harbour wall for me.

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Colour – Margate orange and pink

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Fantastical Worlds, Turner Contemporary, Margate

Spent a few days at Botany Day, just outside Margate (technically in Broadstairs, I think).  Visited the Turner Contemporary and was intrigued by this exhibition: ‘Fantastical Worlds is a collaboration between Year 8 students at Royal Harbour Academy and Project Motorhouse. In … Continue reading

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Colour – Kingsgate Green

Sea wall at low tide below Kingsgate Castle, Kent.

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Shutter Hub – Everyday Delight

An announcement from Shutter Hub. ‘The selected photographers have been announced for our latest book, EVERYDAY DELIGHT. It will soon be available in the Shutter Hub shop, as well as with some lovely stockists across the UK. It’s a beauty. … Continue reading

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