Monthly Archives: November 2025

Mid Century New York – Art & Photography

The U3AC course on Mid Century New York I’m doing is primarily focussed on poetry.  In my post of 13th November I drew a line between the poetry of John O’Hara and street photography.  The course has also embraced aspects … Continue reading

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Dreams and Visions: Silenus

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Fen Landscape: Stow cum Quy

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Shutter Hub: Blue

Five photographs submitted for this Shutter Hub publication, see post 13th August 2025. Text and one of the pictures below. ‘Blue.  A primary colour.  Blue sky.  Blue eyes.  Blue mood.  Blue for calm, trust and reliability. Blue for authority and … Continue reading

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Fen Landscape: Reeds, Wicken Fen

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U3AC Photo Forum 2025-26: Week 7 Another Cambridge

The brief was to produce two photographs showing an unconventional view of Cambridge. My pictures below: my aim was to use blur and movement to create a sense of energy and hurrying home in the rain.

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Beauty Tricks, 2017, Pinkie Maclure

‘Maclure is a multidisciplinary artist based in Scotland. Beauty Tricks critiques the human and environmental impact of the beauty industry and the pressure we sometimes feel to look a certain way. Images associated with body image, eating disorders, the cosmetic … Continue reading

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Triforium Figures

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Fen Landscape: Quy Fen

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Cafe Nero

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Egret Angel

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Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World

The National Portrait Gallery held an exhibition of Cecil Beaton’s photographs in 1968.  It was the Gallery’s first ever photo exhibition, the first time it featured living people and the first show of a living British photographer.  And it was … Continue reading

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Oracle 7

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Photography and (in) Fiction/Poetry: Frank O’Hara

I’ve been introduced to the work of Frank O’Hara through the Cambridge U3A.   O’Hara (1926-66) was an American writer, poet, and art critic. He was a curator for international exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art (briefly overlapping with John … Continue reading

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Fraser Hart

A distraction while waiting to have a new watch strap fitted.

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