Monthly Archives: October 2023

U3AC Photo Forum 2023-24 – Week 4

I did a presentation on reading/looking at photographs today.  I set the context with a quote from John Berger: ‘A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer, and those who are using … Continue reading

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Museo di Palazzo Grimani 1

Unidentified figure in the shadows, Museo di Palazzo Grimani, Venice, May 2023.

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Mining the Diaries 64: Wales 2006

Or’eira, Llanfacherth, Dolgellau, 9th May 2006 Portmeirion:  a curious place.  Clough Williams-Ellis designed and started building it in 1925, supposedly ‘to demonstrate how a naturally beautiful site could be developed without spoiling it.’ Accordingly, it is charming, harmonious and of … Continue reading

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Fen Landscape, Great Ouse

Walking along the Great Ouse at Ely yesterday.

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Golden Stitches

Took this picture when I was out photographing for the Shutter Hub Night Shots submission. It didn’t fit with what I was trying to achieve, but I rather like it.

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Shutter Hub Night Moods Book

Shutter Hub has put out a call for submissions. ‘We’re inviting you to put your images forward for our forthcoming publication, NIGHT MOODS. Whether you’re interested in seemingly mundane street scenes or evocative nocturnal landscapes, prefer a spot of astrophotography … Continue reading

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Mining the Diaries 63: Spain 2006

Hotel Astoria Palace, Valencia, 19th March 2006 We are here for the Las Fallas festival.  Its origins lie in a carpenters’ tradition, from the Middle Ages, celebrating the spring equinox on 19th March by burning the pieces of wood, parots, … Continue reading

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U3AC Photo Forum 2023-24 – Week 3

Eleni Paliginis on landscape photography covering composition, timing (golden hour and blue light), previsualising and the technology.  Landscape photographs should have great depth of field with everything in focus. Success requires: low ISO settings, small apertures, a tripod and perhaps … Continue reading

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Fen Landscape

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Only Colour: High Viz Red and Yellow

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Shutter Hub – To the Sea 2

Further to my post on 27th June, the Shutter Hub exhibition is now open. TO THE SEA 19 October 2023 – 10 October 2024 Les Alizes (outside)Boulevard de l’ÉgalitéSaint Gilles Croix de VieFrance All the panels for the show can … Continue reading

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El Anatsui

Popped in to see the work of El Anatsui in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern while I was in London Yesterday.

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Japanese Photography

A day in London to see Daido Moriyama at the Photographers’ Gallery and Hiroshi Sugimoto at the Hayward Gallery. Difficult to call to mind two more different photographers – chaos and order.

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Fen Landscape

Two more from Saturday’s walk.

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U3AC Photo Forum 2023-24 – Week 2 Personal Choices

For this week Tim asked us to present and talk about: a photograph by someone else we would be proud to have taken; and a picture of our own that we are pleased with. I chose Robert Frank’s Bar Gallop … Continue reading

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