Category Archives: Photography
Dinner in Venice
Nature’s cloak
In a wood, this morning.
Riverside
Upper reach of the Cam on a January afternoon.
Eventide
Upper reach of the Cam, yesterday afternoon. Wonderful light.
In West Cambridge
The Schlumberger building against a November sky.
So when are you going to let me in?
One of our cats, who sometimes thinks that using the cat-flap is beneath her dignity and comes onto the kitchen windowsill demanding to be let in. She has clearly been reading PG Wodehouse, who argued that the reason cats have such a superior attitude is that they know that the ancient Egyptians worshipped them as gods.
How to relax
Spotted in the Orchard in Grantchester.
Phones, photography and the Snapchat factor
This morning’s Observer column:
Living and working, as I do, in a historic city that is swamped by tourists in the summer, I regularly get the opportunity to do some photo-ethnography. You can tell someone’s age by the kind of camera they are using. Elderly folks are still using point-and-shoot compacts. Middle-aged folks are sporting “prosumer” digital single-lens reflex cameras (DSLRs) from Canon, Nikon, Fuji and Panasonic. But as far as I can see, everyone under the age of 25 is using a smartphone, possibly with the assistance of a selfie stick.
This is partly because the main reason young people take photographs is to post them on social media, and smartphones make that easy to do. But that’s not the whole story. Those who are more serious about photography tend to upload their pictures to photo-hosting services such as Flickr. Guess what the most popular camera for Flickr members is? Apple’s iPhone – by a mile… Read on
High Summer
Wimpole Hall grounds. Larger size here