Monthly Archives: November 2023

On Reflection

Posted on November 30, 2023 by Brian
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Flatiron

Posted on November 28, 2023 by Brian

Number 1 Cambridge Square, Cambridge North, an homage to the Flatiron Building. Architects Perkins & Will.

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The Gaze

Posted on November 27, 2023 by Brian

Hercules and Galatea revisited, see post 14th April 2022.

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Mining the Diaries 72: Italy 2008

Posted on November 26, 2023 by Brian

2969 Calle Del Forno, Venice, 7th September 2008 This a first floor apartment overlooking the Rio di S. Margherita and the Calle Del Forno.  When the children in the apartment above run about the lights in the dining room chandelier … Continue reading →

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The Italian Class

Posted on November 24, 2023 by Brian

Studying in Waterstones coffee shop – not a laptop in sight.

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Mining the Diaries 71: France 2008

Posted on November 23, 2023 by Brian

Hotel Eden. Les Praz de Chamonix, 24th August 2008 The day dawned crystal clear, the rising sun turning the summit of Mont Blanc and the surrounding peaks brilliant, glittering white, the sky the palest ice blue streaked by chalky contrails.  … Continue reading →

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Mining the Diaries 70: Netherlands 2008

Posted on November 22, 2023 by Brian

Eden Savoy Hotel, Rotterdam, 5th June 2008 Here in the Netherlands on a three-day trip with a delegation from the English Historic Towns Forum to see how the Dutch care for their historic environment. A full day ahead, so out … Continue reading →

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U3AC Photo Forum 2023-24 – Week 7

Posted on November 21, 2023 by Brian

Graham Wickens gave a presentation on Architectural Photography and Cityscapes, a genre going back to Nicephore Niepce and the birth of photography and running through the work of Berenice Abbott to the conceptual work of Hiroshi Sugimoto. The range of … Continue reading →

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Urban Incidentals

Posted on November 16, 2023 by Brian

Walked into town to meet Michael H for lunch at the Maypole yesterday. Random sights in the welcome November sun.

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Style

Posted on November 15, 2023 by Brian
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U3AC Photo Forum 2023-24 – Week 6

Posted on November 14, 2023 by Brian

The aim of today was to build on the landscape session in week 3.  Members submitted around 40 of their photographs for viewing and discussion.  Locations ranged from the local (the Beechwoods, Coleridge Recreation Ground, Lammas Land, Jesus Green, the … Continue reading →

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Mining the Diaries 69: Italy 2007

Posted on November 13, 2023 by Brian

Rezzonico Garden 2796 Calle del Traghetto, Venice, 1st September 2007 A morning in what has become one of my favourite place in Venice, the curious, often macabre, Museo Fortuny, in the former Palazzo Pesaro degli Orfei.  Today the dark mystery … Continue reading →

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Venus Pudica – Fitzwilliam Museum

Posted on November 12, 2023 by Brian

Venus Pudica by Pompeo Marchesi (Italian, 1789-1858, Milan). White marble, dated 1829. Created for Duca Pompeo Litta Visconti Arese and situated in one of the grottos of the Nymphaeum of the Villa Lainate, near Milan, reputedly from a palazzo in … Continue reading →

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Photography in Fiction – Europa?

Posted on November 11, 2023 by Brian

This is more a case of photography and fiction rather than photography in fiction.  Photographs, in the form of ID images, make only a brief appearance, in the story ‘The AK-47 of pick-up Trucks’. ‘EUROPA? is a collaboration between a … Continue reading →

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Mining the Diaries 68: Greece 2007

Posted on November 10, 2023 by Brian

Stone House, Kardamili, 10th July 2007 We set off at 7.15 after an early breakfast and headed south to Areopolis, then onward into the Deep, Mesa, Mani with Patrick Leigh Fermor (Mani – Travels in the Southern Peloponnese, 1958) as … Continue reading →

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