Tag Archives: U3A Cambridge

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

Posted on February 14, 2026 by Brian

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

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U3AC Cambridge Photo Walks 2025-2

Posted on August 19, 2025 by Brian

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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U3AC Cambridge Photo Walks 2025-1

Posted on July 22, 2025 by Brian

Tim Ewbank organised two photo walks as part of the Cambridge U3A summer events programme.  The aims were to: go out and have fun taking pictures; and create a picture of Cambridge as the participants see it.  Any camera would … Continue reading →

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U3A Photo Forum: Week 11 Industry and Agriculture

Posted on May 14, 2025 by Brian

The Assignment this week was to photograph industry and agriculture. I recently walked part of the cycle path that will ultimately link the new development at Waterbeach with the Regional College and the King’s Hedges area of Cambridge.  I discovered … Continue reading →

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U3AC Photo Forum 2023-24 – Week 2 Personal Choices

Posted on October 16, 2023 by Brian

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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U3AC Photography – Reading Photographs

Posted on April 29, 2023 by Brian

The five-week course I ran in February/March seems to have been well received.  Of the 64% of attendees who gave formal feedback 74% thought it was excellent and 26% good against a range of criteria, giving an overall approval rating … Continue reading →

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Photography and Painting

Posted on March 16, 2023 by Brian

In my recent U3A Cambridge courses on photography I’ve shown how photography and painting depict similar relationships in work created centuries apart.  Examples are: Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, 1936 and Raphael, Madonna of the Pinks, 1507; and W Eugene Smith, … Continue reading →

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U3A Cambridge 2022-23: Reading Photographs 5 – Open Discussion

Posted on March 14, 2023 by Brian

Yesterday saw the fifth and final session in my five week course on Reading Photographs. It was devoted to an open discussion of 13 photographs chosen by class members from a selection of thirty-one suggested by me.  The material fell … Continue reading →

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U3A Cambridge 2022-23: Reading Photographs 3 – Formal Qualities of Photographs

Posted on February 27, 2023 by Brian

I presented the third session in my five week course on Reading Photographs today. We considered how the formal qualities of photographs and how they are made affect our reactions and reading.  The aim was to draw out the ways … Continue reading →

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U3A Cambridge 2022-23: Reading Photographs 2 – Shaping our Reading

Posted on February 20, 2023 by Brian

I presented the second session in my five week course on Reading Photographs today.  This week we looked at what shapes our reading of photographs.  I suggested it depends on ourselves, the subject and the context; and our response may … Continue reading →

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U3A Cambridge 2022-23: Reading Photographs 1

Posted on February 15, 2023 by Brian

I presented the first session in my five week course on Reading Photographs on Monday.  The aim of the course is to improve the critical appreciation and understanding of the photographs around us in exhibitions, books, magazines, newspapers and online … Continue reading →

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All Voyeurs Now?

Posted on November 17, 2022 by Brian

I’ve posted below the text of a short presentation that I gave to the U3AC Arts Forum yesterday to stimulate discussion around the subject of voyeurism. I took a photograph of a couple cuddling in the seclusion of the Temple … Continue reading →

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U3AC Photography – Five Facets of Photography

Posted on April 29, 2022 by Brian

The five-week course I ran in March/April seems to have been well received.  Of the 62% of attendees who gave formal feedback 92% thought it was excellent and 8% good against a range of criteria, giving an overall approval rating … Continue reading →

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Five Facets of Photography – Photographs that Changed the World: Rontgen’s X-Ray

Posted on February 25, 2022 by Brian

A medical X-ray photograph of Anna Bertha Röntgen hand made by her husband Wilhelm in 1895. The discovery of x-rays won Wilhelm the first Nobel Prize ever granted for physics in 1901. His breakthrough quickly went into use around the world, … Continue reading →

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Five Facets of Photography – Ideas that Changed Photography: Conceptual photography

Posted on February 23, 2022 by Brian

Conceptual Photography is often considered to derive from Conceptual Art of the late 1960s, but it has been around longer than that.  It is photography that is staged or created to represent an idea; it is not primarily intended to depict and … Continue reading →

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