Monthly Archives: March 2024

Margate

Posted on March 30, 2024 by Brian

Mining the Diaries 99: England Flat 2 57 Kingsgate Avenue, Margate 11th November 2022 We drove to Margate, parked in Westbrook, climbed down onto the Westbrook Promenade and walked east in the shadow of the former Royal Sea Bathing Hospital.  … Continue reading →

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Shutter Hub TEN

Posted on March 29, 2024 by Brian

I posted details of Shutter Hub’s call for submission around the number TEN on 21st January 2024.  Interpretations could be ‘literal, metaphorical or nostalgic’. A brief mind mapping exercise gave me 30 possible subjects from clocks to cars and green … Continue reading →

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Perfect Days

Posted on March 28, 2024 by Brian

Perfect Days is a 2023 film directed by Wim Wenders.  Hirayama works as a public toilet cleaner in Tokyo’s smart Shibuya ward, across town from his modest home in an unimproved neighbourhood. He repeats his structured, ritualized life every day starting at dawn. He dedicates his … Continue reading →

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Reydon, Southwold

Posted on March 27, 2024 by Brian

Mining the Diaries 98: England Scholars Cottage, Old School Drive Reydon, 4th July 2022 A visit to Snape, a short drive south down the A12. One never knows quite what to expect at The Maltings, the temporary exhibitions of sculpture … Continue reading →

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Kardamili

Posted on March 26, 2024 by Brian

Mining the Diaries 97: Greece 205A Anniska Apartments, Kardamili, Greece20th May 2022 After yesterday’s cloudy start, today dawned bright and clear.  The first rays of the sun breasted the mountains and picked out the white houses on far Messenia; light … Continue reading →

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‘Pre-loved’

Posted on March 24, 2024 by Brian
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Shutter Hub: DREAMS & VISIONS

Posted on March 22, 2024 by Brian

Here’s another new call for submissions from Shutter Hub.  The second online exhibition in our Curate for the Community series, DREAMS & VISIONS explores ethereal and abstract imagery in an escape from reality through the imagining of otherworldly visions. There … Continue reading →

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Water Nymph

Posted on March 21, 2024 by Brian

Water Nymph, Jean Goujon, 1547-49, Victoria and Albert Museum.  The original stone reliefs were part of the decoration of a public fountain in Paris.  Goujon’s style seems to take inspiration from Italian sculpture.

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Issam Kourbaj – Syria Reflection

Posted on March 20, 2024 by Brian

Mining the Diaries – Reflection Looking back to past travels taxes the fallible memory.  Mostly, only high lights and low lights come into focus with the remainder blurred impressions.  Photographs, diaries, souvenirs and accumulated ephemera help, of course, but they … Continue reading →

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U3AC Photo Forum 2023-24 – Week 20 Creative

Posted on March 19, 2024 by Brian

A session presented jointly by Alasdair, Andrew, Tim and myself looking at ways of  achieving visual effects and alternative imagery. Alasdair: using old SLR lenses on digital cameras; tilt adaptors; and the Lensbaby. Andrew: refractions in water; show shutter speeds; … Continue reading →

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Blue Rope

Posted on March 18, 2024 by Brian

First blue rope post for a long time – seen when walking on Magog Down 12th March 2024.

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Shutter Hub Open 23/24

Posted on March 17, 2024 by Brian

Shutter Hub has released the following on the recent open exhibition (see blog 12th December 2023). ‘The Shutter Hub OPEN 23/24  ran from 27 November 2023 – 16 February 2024 at the ARB Building at Cambridge University, bringing together over … Continue reading →

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Alternative Photography

Posted on March 14, 2024 by Brian

Spent a bit of time yesterday experimenting with Lensball and Bug Eye gadgets in preparation for next week’s U3A Photography Forum.

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U3AC Photo Forum 2023-24 – Week 19 Members’ Travel Photographs

Posted on March 13, 2024 by Brian

Graham Wickens presented travel photographs by members of the Forum.  Ten people submitted around 40 pictures – mainly in colour, just a couple in black and white. Destinations ranged from the Hebrides and Felixstowe to Nagasaki and Chatsworth and from … Continue reading →

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Mercury and Psyche

Posted on March 11, 2024 by Brian

Mercury and Psyche, Adriaen de Vries, 1593 (V&A Museum).  The winged messenger of the gods, Mercury, carries Psyche to be reunited with her lover, Cupid.  The entwined figures create a sense of movement and demonstrate De Vries’s compositional skill.  The … Continue reading →

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