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U3AC Photo Forum 2025-26: Photo Walk

Posted on May 14, 2026 by Brian

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

Posted on March 19, 2026 by Brian

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

Posted on February 28, 2026 by Brian

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 13 Street Photography 

Posted on January 29, 2026 by Brian

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 2025-26: Week 11 Still Life and Macro

Posted on January 15, 2026 by Brian

Three pictures submitted for this week’s assignment.

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U3A Cambridge and Photography

Posted on January 10, 2026 by Brian

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 2023-24 – Week 4

Posted on October 31, 2023 by Brian

I did a presentation on reading/looking at photographs today.  I set the context with a quote from John Berger: ‘A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer, and those who are using … Continue reading →

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Five Facets of Photography – Ideas that Changed Photography: The Decisive Moment

Posted on February 21, 2022 by Brian

The course I’m running for the Cambridge U3A, Five Facets of Photography, starts this week with ‘Ideas that Changed Photography’.  This post comes from that module.  Posts over the next five weeks will include material from subsequent modules. Henri Cartier-Bresson … Continue reading →

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