Category: Photography

December 18, 2014 / / Cambridge

I mentioned in my last post that I would talk a bit more about off-camera flash next. When you take flash photography with an on-camera flash it will create a very flat illumination of your subject,…

December 16, 2014 / / Cambridge

Last Thursday the PdOC Society hosted this year’s Christmas formal at St John’s College. We had 210 postdocs and others in attendance, making it one of the biggest events our society has organised. Everyone had dressed…

December 14, 2014 / / Cambridge

When I woke up yesterday there was a thin layer of beautiful frost and a glorious sunrise. I was kicking myself for not scheduling the day’s photo shoot earlier. Instead I cycled through the cold…

December 12, 2014 / / Photography

The Cambridge Fashion Show is being organised by Lottie Franklin and Victoria Herren-Schmidt. The big show happens on February 13 (2015) in the Guild Hall, and is in support of a charity called Cambridge House that was founded…

December 5, 2014 / / Cambridge

I am one of those people that need a hot meal for lunch, and ideally a bit of sunlight to an fro. One of my goals is to eat at all the colleges in Cambridge, either…

December 4, 2014 / / Cambridge

This past Sunday the European Tour Group was having their dress rehearsal of Macbeth. The show is directed by Nicholas Hulbert and will be travelling to the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland and France over the next two…

December 2, 2014 / / Cambridge

One of my colleagues at DAMTP needed some photos to demonstrate her new image processing algorithm. So we scheduled half an hour before lunch and went out into the light rain with a camera and a…

November 30, 2014 / / Cambridge

Once a year the ADC Theatre puts on a really massive production, and this year the Pantomime is The Emperor’s New Clothes. The show is written by Joshan Chana, Ellen Robertson and Luke Sumner, and directed by…

November 28, 2014 / / Cambridge

This past Monday evening I photographed Love and Money, directed by Wendy (Min Ji Choi). There were some initial delays before the rehearsal got started, but it gave me a chance to take some photos that I…

November 26, 2014 / / Cambridge

Recently I attended a poetry reading organised by Ars Poetica, that was hosted in a candlelit Magdalene College Chapel. This was the first poetry reading I have ever attended, so I was not sure what to expect, but…