Date archive: May 2017
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‘A Day At The Races’ – no, not the classic Marx Brothers film nor the iconic Queen rock album – but a great visit to Oulton Park, near Tarporley, in Cheshire yesterday, to watch some British Touring Car and Formula 4 motor racing, the second day of a busy weekend meeting. Thousands of people there and what…
I have just finished my Architectural Photography Workshops with Cunliffes – private firm of Construction Professionals based in Bootle, Liverpool. After three hrs of theory, techniques and some instruction, I accompanied 15 staff to Liverpool’s iconic Waterfront with their cameras and smartphones, where they practised the theory on a group photo shoot. In fact, some…
A photobomb is ‘a photo spoiled by the unexpected appearance of an unintended subject in the camera’s range of view as the shot is taken’. I run 8 week long photography courses for Bluberry Learning & Development Ltd in Cheshire. Today was session 6 of 8 of my Spring course, and I took the group on…
On Wednesday 3rd May 2017, I visited Wellingborough and District U3A group in Northamptonshire. In the town’s URC church, known locally as the ‘pork pie’ due to its unique shape, over 230 people gave me a warm welcome and enjoyed my thought provoking presentation, ‘Welcome to the Anthropocene’. This talk is about the effects of mankind’s activities…