Monthly Archives: August 2023

Mining the Diaries 53: Italy 2003

Posted on August 29, 2023 by Brian

Piano Rialzato, Venice, 14th September 2003 We set out to walk from the Campo de la Bragora to San Pietro di Castello via Campo San Martin, Fondamenta Arsenale, Giardini Garibaldi, Ponte Santa Anna, a trail described in the excellent Venetian … Continue reading →

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Mining the Diaries 52: Belgium 2003

Posted on August 27, 2023 by Brian

De Zwann, Scherpenheuvel, Belgium, 30th August 2003 Here for a British-Belgian wedding yesterday. A long and happy day, dancing into the night, falling into bed after two.  Breakfast with the wedding guests, who are staying here.  Goodbyes, then off for … Continue reading →

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Cream Tea

Posted on August 26, 2023 by Brian

One of the pleasures/challenges of printing with analog photography used to be deciding on what paper to use.  Agfa, Ilford and Kodak all produced papers designed specifically to produce images ranging from neutral to warm tones – in the warmest … Continue reading →

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Mining the Diaries 51: Cuba 2003

Posted on August 25, 2023 by Brian

Casa Granda, Santiago de Cuba, 17th May 2003 Pavel took us on a tour from the Parque Cespedes to the area known as Tivoli.  Called ‘the most authentic picturesque mixed quarter of Santiago’ by our guide book, it’s been settled … Continue reading →

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Ghostly Ending

Posted on August 24, 2023 by Brian

I took this picture in St Davids during June 2023. It’s of some unidentifiable bird species, but the ghostly image imprinted into the surface of the road reminds me of nothing so much as an archaeopteryx fossil. I would certainly … Continue reading →

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Penitent Magdalene

Posted on August 23, 2023 by Brian

Another image from the recent visit to the Fitzwilliam Museum. La Pia Contrita or Maddalena, translated as The Penitent Magdalene, by Polpeo Marchesi in the Neoclassical style.  Made for Duca Pompeo Litta Visconti Arese and by 1840 situated in a … Continue reading →

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Mining the Diaries 50: Italy 2003

Posted on August 21, 2023 by Brian

Hotel Roma, Trieste, 1st March 2003 Early morning at the Serbian Orthodox church of St Spiridione: the Eastern rite rhetoric of colour and gold, of sad-faced icons and star painted window recesses, of a host of candles and sonorous tenor … Continue reading →

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Origins

Posted on August 16, 2023 by Brian

Photo sent to me by friend, MichaelH. I always knew I had peasant origins, but the Fens, not somewhere on a pilgrimage route deep in rural France!

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Gig

Posted on August 15, 2023 by Brian

The gig economy in action from my window.

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‘Glory’

Posted on August 14, 2023 by Brian

From recent visit to the Fitzwilliam Museum. Web site says: ‘Carrara white marble, carved in the round; on grey veined marble pedestal, with black marble cartouche. A full length figure of a woman, representing ‘Glory’ supported on a high pedestal.’ … Continue reading →

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Mining the Diaries 49: Italy 2002

Posted on August 13, 2023 by Brian

Piano Rialzato, Venice, 16th September 2002 The soundscape is one of the best and most distinctive things about Venice.  At home we hear aeroplanes, ambulance sirens and the rumble of traffic.  Here there is a sound track playing a continual, … Continue reading →

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Diffusion

Posted on August 11, 2023 by Brian

Seen through a window diffusion screen at the Fitzwilliam Museum on Sunday.

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Mining the Diaries 48: Turkey 2002

Posted on August 10, 2023 by Brian

The Round House, Omer’s Houses, Dalyan, 4th July A trip to Koycegiz, which is about 30km upstream from here at the end of Koycegiz Lake, Turkey’s deepest lake and reputedly visited by over 150 species of birds.  It’s an ordinary … Continue reading →

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Akhenaten

Posted on August 9, 2023 by Brian

Fragment of a statue of Akhenaten from the Karnak Arten Temple c. 1300 BC in the Fitzwilliam. I’m reminded variously of an emoji, Mick Jagger, and Gogol’s story The Nose.

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Mining the Diaries 47: Spain 2002

Posted on August 8, 2023 by Brian

Palacio Castellano, Salamanca, 6th May 2002 A rather chaotic start to the day: several groups were leaving, so they were all down together for an early breakfast and we had to share tables – not at all a British thing … Continue reading →

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