Monthly Archives: April 2023

Mining the Diaries 30: Ireland

Posted on April 30, 2023 by Brian

Talbot Guest House, Dublin, 14th March 1996 Eight–thirty breakfast – black and white pudding – before last morning exploring. Across the Liffey by the Ha’penny Bridge and into Temple Bar, where a huge effort is going into a new arts … Continue reading →

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U3AC Photography – Reading Photographs

Posted on April 29, 2023 by Brian

The five-week course I ran in February/March seems to have been well received.  Of the 64% of attendees who gave formal feedback 74% thought it was excellent and 26% good against a range of criteria, giving an overall approval rating … Continue reading →

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Analog Disincentives

Posted on April 27, 2023 by Brian

I want an extra role of film to take on holiday (Trieste and Venice in May) and in the spirit of buying local went to Campkins, Cambridge’s independent photo shop.  They wanted £12 for a 36 exposure cassette of FP4, … Continue reading →

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Mining the Diaries 29: Turkey

Posted on April 26, 2023 by Brian

Hotel Dorici, Kusadasi, 26th October 1995 Caged chickens, protesting sheep, dripping fish, drifts of sunflower seeds and rice, great slabs of white cheese, and bulging sacks of tobacco were sold by people with weathered mahogany faces in the cacophony of … Continue reading →

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Felixstowe Yarn

Posted on April 24, 2023 by Brian

‘Yarn bombing (or yarnbombing) is a type of graffiti or street art that employs colourful displays of knitted or crocheted yarn or fibre rather than paint or chalk. It is also called wool bombing, yarn storming, guerrilla knitting, kniffiti, urban knitting, or graffiti knitting.’  Wikipedia

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Analog Sea Revisited

Posted on April 20, 2023 by Brian

‘Today in nearly all sectors of life … we navigate a world increasingly orchestrated not by direct human care and craft but by machines and algorithms.  It’s impressive and terrifying just how much human agency we entrust to profiteering technology … Continue reading →

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Mining the Diaries 28 – Belgium

Posted on April 19, 2023 by Brian

De Lork, Kemmel, 22nd February 1995 A day on the move and of moving impressions To Ypres in bright sun. Museum in the rebuilt Cloth Hall; old fashioned and uncritical. The Menin gate.  A veil of 54,000 names of those … Continue reading →

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Footfall Plus 1

Posted on April 18, 2023 by Brian

I’ve been having a major clear out of work prints. Found this one in the Footfall file – it wasn’t used in the book, but I like it.

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Cross Words

Posted on April 17, 2023 by Brian

Clue in yesterday’s crossword: ‘Garffiti’. Answer: ‘Vandalism’.

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Fen Landscape – Quy Fen

Posted on April 16, 2023 by Brian

Walked out to Quy Fen from the Horningsea Road yesterday. Skylarks singing over vast fields of rape just coming into bloom; and disconsolate black cattle looking for grazing in a sticky sea of mud. Meadows around the coprolite workings water … Continue reading →

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Ely Light

Posted on April 13, 2023 by Brian

Yesterday I had a long overdue clear out of work prints made for the Traces of Erewhon project.  Making the pictures was a very hit and miss process and there were many more misses than hits, so the waste paper … Continue reading →

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Mining the Diaries 27: Italy

Posted on April 12, 2023 by Brian

Casa Elisabetta, Castra, 23rd September 1994 San Gimignano the town of towers.  It seems to be full of noisy Germans, Americans and jackdaws.  Coaches drop off visitors, who stream in waves up the Via San Matteo. In the cloister of … Continue reading →

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Seeing Difference

Posted on April 11, 2023 by Brian

In writing about Larnaca yesterday I mentioned ‘noisy metal workshops under ancient arches’.   It may seem strange to highlight this when I said nothing about more important sights, like Finikoudes Beach, the Catacomb of Phaneromeni Church and Hala Sultan Tekke (Mosque … Continue reading →

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Mining the Diaries: 26 Cyprus

Posted on April 10, 2023 by Brian

Poseidonia Hotel, Limassol, 4th February 1994 Out on the fast road to Larnaca in the white Suzuki Samurai at 8 o’clock, the sunny landscape of south east Cyprus zipping by: lemon groves and ancient olives; dry valleys and ravines; Stavrovouni … Continue reading →

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Mining the Diaries: 25 Scotland 1993

Posted on April 6, 2023 by Brian

31 Crovie, Banff, 22nd September 1993 A dour day dawned with distant leaden cliffs beyond a sullenly unwelcoming sea.  After breakfast we walked round the bay to Gardenstown – an easy well-made path, then across a stretch of beach by … Continue reading →

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