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Seeing Red

February 04, 2021 • 1 Comment

Photographing live music, particularly Jazz, is one of my special interests, although it only came about because I married Joan Minor, the Jazz vocalist (Look her up on her website and Facebook). Never previously a jazz aficionado, I came to love these events, which are a luxuriously intimate feast of: small venues, enthusiastic and expert fans, me...

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Is This Kitsch?

January 28, 2021 • 1 Comment

All That Glitters…? This pile of little Eiffel Towers was on sale outside a souvenir shop nearby to the massive real thing. Their daring and, may I say, non-representative colour scheme glittered and glowed in the summer sunlight. No-one seemed to want to buy any of these precious, carefully engineered, scale-model, evocations of an iconic example...

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Capture and Composition

January 21, 2021 • 1 Comment

Capture As much as I would love to emulate Henri Cartier-Bresson, my photographer icon, I am incapable of implementing his policy of: if it’s not perfect ‘as shot’ then it is unusable. Having viewed some of his contact sheets in exhibitions and observed his rigorous process of choosing images, I witnessed the amazing fact that he refused to allow...

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Bokeh Telling A Story

January 14, 2021 • 1 Comment

Bokeh I love the word “bokeh”, both because it is uniquely photographic and because it describes something very subtle and beautiful, absent in other art. One definition is “the aesthetic quality of the blur produced in out-of-focus parts of an image”. Photographers discuss the “quality” of bokeh produced by different lenses, which speaks to the p...

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In Need of Repair

January 07, 2021 • 1 Comment

A sad day for America, but with this reminder that old things need maintenance and can be repaired. Settings Camera: Nikon D850 Lens: Nikon AF-S Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8E FL ED VR Vibration Reduction: O n Drive Mode: Continuous Focal Length: 105 mm Focus Mode: AF-S Auto Focus-Area Mode: Single Aperture: f/ 13 Shutter Speed: 1/1250s Expo...

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