Category Archives: U3AC Photography Courses

U3AC Out and About Photography

The U3AC Out and About Photography course starts today with a briefing session. Those on the course have been asked to submit a self-portrait; this is my effort. Taken with a Leica 111f on Ilford HP5 Plus, I’ve sought to … Continue reading →

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U3A Cambridge – Photography

The Out and About Photography course starts next week. Self-portraits will be ice breakers – here’s mine.

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U3AC Photo Forum 2025-26

Last meeting of this year’s Photo Forum today – two pictures below submitted.  Looking back. What’s gone well: Areas for improvement:

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U3AC Photo Forum 2025-26: Photo Walk

Members of the Forum met for a photo walk at Mill Road Cemetery, Cambridge, on 30th April. We viewed the results today. I concentrated on shapes, tones and textures, see below.

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U3A Photo Forum 2025-26: Week 19 Travel

Late afternoon on 11th March we walked up Staithe Lane to Thornham Old Harbour.  Thornham, like many North Norfolk coastal villagers, once had a working harbour; it was the main connection with the wider world until 1887 when the railway … Continue reading →

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U3A Photo Forum 2025-26: Week 17 Landscape

The subject for this week’s U3AC Photo Forum was landscape.   An outsider viewing the submitted work might have through rather that it was about travel, with pictures from Cambodia to Spain and Egypt to Croatia.  Geography aside, the suggestion that … Continue reading →

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U3AC Photo Forum 2025-26: Week 15 Inspired by…

The subject for this week was photographs inspired by the other arts. My inspirations from film, music and opera.

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U3AC Photo Forum 2025-26: Week 13 Street Photography 

I used a Harman disposable camera loaded with HP5 Plus for this assignment (see post 20th January).  My aim was to look at aspects of tourism in Cambridge in three pictures.

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U3AC Photo Forum Exhibition 2026

The Photo Forum’s annual exhibition is on display in the first floor Gallery of the Bridge Street offces from 12 January – 13 February. This year’s theme is ‘The Other Cambridge’, that side of Cambridge that tourists don’t usually visit (see … Continue reading →

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U3AC Photo Forum 2025-26: Week 11 Still Life and Macro

Three pictures submitted for this week’s assignment.

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U3A Cambridge and Photography

I spent yesterday morning with TimE mounting the 2026 exhibition of work by the Photo Forum (a post on this to follow).  We got to talking about the programme for next year: we want to give the Photo Forum a … Continue reading →

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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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U3AC Photo Forum 2025-26: Week 5 Photographs in the style of…

The brief this week was for members of the Forum to make photographs in the style of a photographer they admire.  Photographers referenced included: Ansel Adams. Dag Alveng, Martin Bond, Christine Borland, Henri Cartier Bresson, Lynann Colligan, Tim Laman, Saul … Continue reading →

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U3AC Photo Forum 2005-26: Week 3 Portraits

The task was to make two portraits/self-portraits. My two here.

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U3AC Cambridge Photo Walks 2025-2

The second of this year’s photo walks took place on 13th August. The themes were shopping, along the river and open spaces. Pictures from all the participants are on Tim Ewbanks’ we site at https://www.zimbushboy.online under U3A Photo Forum 2024-2025. … Continue reading →

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