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Jun 29, 2021

Beyond The Image Gallery: ‘Fenland’ Exhibition

Just finished setting up my ‘Fenland’ black and white print series at the ‘Beyond the Image’ photographers gallery in Thornham Magna, Suffolk. The exhibition opens on July 2nd and runs until July 25th. #lumixG9 #photographer #photographiccomposition #gallery #photographybook #blackandwhitephotography #FenlandCambridgeshire #Exhibition #beyondtheimage

The Cambridgeshire Fenlands during the Winter of 2020/21, at the height of the COVID -19 pandemic.

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Apr 1, 2021

The Cambridgeshire Fenlands during the Winter of 2020/21, at the height of the COVID -19 pandemic.

Fenland By Peter M Corr Book Preview Followers of this blog will have an idea about the number of photographs I have taken of the Cambridgeshire Fenlands. I had many images on this theme and collated them in a book using the Bookwright software. What you will find here is an edited collection and some of these shots you may have already seen. Most of the captures included were taken during the Winter of 2020/21 at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic; maybe that is why they ar

Winter Trees in The Fenlands…’a country walk less picturesque could hardly be found in E

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Dec 7, 2020

Winter Trees in The Fenlands…’a country walk less picturesque could hardly be found in E

At first sight, this looks like a mirror image, but it is a photograph of one of the arrow-straight tree lines seen across the Fenlands. Why there are two rows of trees planted side by side, I really don’t know; it is unlikely to be an aesthetic decision because it is so difficult to walk between them. Anthony Trollope (1815 -1882) writes about the Fen landscape and he says, ‘a country walk less picturesque could hardly be found in England’. Trollope was familiar with the fen

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Dec 6, 2020

The Telegraph Pole Appreciation Society

Lark Bank Leaving Mile End Road, just after the village of Prickwillow and following the River Lark for a mile or so, you find a part of the Fenland that is very much off the beaten track. In the fog, the landscape takes on a different mantle and there is a genuine sense of remoteness and isolation. There must be more telegraph poles here than any other area of the UK, and in the soft peat soils of the Cambridgeshire Fenlands they take on a range of jaunty angles. As a mere

Surreal Vision in the Cambridgeshire Fenlands.

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Dec 3, 2020

Surreal Vision in the Cambridgeshire Fenlands.

On the road to Pymoor, three container lorries arranged side by side in a field look for all the world like three birds in a nest, mouths wide open, waiting expectantly. A surreal vision in the Cambridgeshire Fenland. #photographer #landscapephotography #loading #photography #truck #lorry #surreal #farmimg

Fenland Farm Buildings at Hale Fen, near Littleport.

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Dec 1, 2020

Fenland Farm Buildings at Hale Fen, near Littleport.

As Poplar Drove becomes Hale Fen Road Just south of Primrose Hill Farm, where Poplar Drove becomes Hale Fen Road, I caught sight of a farm building on the far horizon. I left the car at the side of the track and walked for half a mile across open fields, crunching the wheat stubble and water logged ground beneath my boots. The watery sun was catching the gable end of the barn, and a halo of soft light animated the space around the buildings. I took a series of photographs whi

The ‘Ship of The Fens’, shrouded in fog.

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Nov 28, 2020

The ‘Ship of The Fens’, shrouded in fog.

Ely Cathedral is an architectural treasure and you certainly should make a special journey to see it. I have looked at the Cathedral in every imaginable quality of light and in all seasons, but nothing reveals the grandeur of this magnificent Gothic structure better than early morning mist in Winter. The detail vanishes in the half-light like one of Monet’s evocative depictions of Rouen Cathedral; individual elements are secondary to the ultimate power and presence of the bui

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Sep 24, 2020

Architecture of Lisbon

Lisbon is a city full of beautiful ornate buildings displaying rich architectural details and often with highly decorative tiled surfaces. This large scale photograph is a montage of a selection of images taken earlier this year in and includes buildings located on the main avenues leading down to the Alfama district. #buildings #photographer #collage #photography #lisbon #portugal #Art #artist #photomontage

Graveyard, Holy Trinity Church, Haddenham

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Sep 20, 2020

Graveyard, Holy Trinity Church, Haddenham

I think we are all fascinated by graveyards and the stone memorials, particularly those attached to churches dating back hundreds of years. According to local records, the cemetery at the Holy Trinity church in Haddenham, Cambridgeshire has existed since the early 13th Century. Just to reassure you, this isn’t a morbid preoccupation of mine, I just like the sculptural qualities of the headstones and the often delicate engravings and relief carvings that accompany them. In the

Submarine wreck at the bottom of the Fenland Sea

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Sep 17, 2020

Submarine wreck at the bottom of the Fenland Sea

A mountain bike is a gift to anyone interested in landscape photography and I really should have considered buying one before. Yes, even here in the flat mountain-less terrain of the Cambridgeshire Fens there are endless opportunities to leave the road and follow byways and trails across the open countryside. Photographers are always in search of different vantage points, new perspectives and fresh ways of representing familiar scenes. If I left the road on my old hybrid bike

Stone tombs, St Mary’s Church, Saffron Walden

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Aug 31, 2020

Stone tombs, St Mary’s Church, Saffron Walden

I don’t really know why we honour the dead with such austere architectural forms but here in the UK, we certainly do just that. There is something deeply ironic about the contrast between the solidity and permanence of these cold hard stone blocks and the transience and fragility of the human lives they commemorate. #death #cemetery #photographer #tombs #grave #transcience #photography #saffronwalden #tomb #blackampwhite #churchyard #life #gothic #monochrome

In photography, we are inevitably influenced by what we have already seen

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Jul 12, 2020

In photography, we are inevitably influenced by what we have already seen

‘Sienna’s World’ Anglesey Abbey ‘Christina’s World’ Andrew Wyeth The black and white photograph of my granddaughter was taken at Anglesey Abbey in Cambridgeshire. The painting below, which many of you will be very familiar with, set in the coastal landscape of Maine was created by the American artist Andrew Wyeth. Wyeth’s painting is a penetrating psychological portrait and a vivid representation of the inner world of Christina Olson who, because of a muscle degenerative di

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Nov 14, 2018

The River Great Ouse

The River Ouse, Cambridgeshire There was a magnificent sunset this evening in Cambridgeshire and I captured the evening light on the River Great Ouse, not far from Wicken Fen.The sun had just disappeared below the horizon and the sky became a kaleidoscope of colour. The image was taken with a Fuji X100F on the Velvia film simulation setting. #photographer #landscapephotography #CambridgeshireUK #river #Sunset #photography #riverouse #FenlandCambridgeshire #Fuji #FujiX100F

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Nov 11, 2018

Black Windows

The late afternoon sun transforms an ordinary scene. Windows and doorways become dark rectangular shapes and intense sunlight reflects from plaster walls. In these images of geometry and order I see echoes of the surrealist Magritte, the mysterious city streets of the Italian artist Giorgio De Chirico and the cool detachment of the American painter, Joseph Albers. For those of you also interested in the technical aspects of photography this image was taken on a Fuji X100s usi

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Mar 3, 2018

Ely Cathedral March 3rd 2018

#snow #Architecture #buildings #photographer #photo #winter #cambridgeshire #photography #cathedral #ely #church

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Oct 21, 2016

Bench 11

‘Memory requires a certain act of redemption. What has been remembered has been saved from nothingness’ John Berger #absence #photographer #solitude #empty #hedge #photography #symbol #Art #metaphor #beech #bench

CAMBRIDGESHIRE: CDA16 FINALISTS ANNOUNCED

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Oct 17, 2016

CAMBRIDGESHIRE: CDA16 FINALISTS ANNOUNCED

Cambridge Digital Awards Finalists Delighted to learn that the website for ‘Headstart Day Nursery’ has been nominated in the Cambridgeshire Digital Awards 2016 category for School, Education & Charity. The website is one of 6 recently designed by Catfish Web Design & Cambridge Marketing Consultancy for a group of private nurseries across the UK. Why am I telling you this? It has been my privilege to be the photographer for Cambridge Marketing Consultancy working on these and

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