Trinity and Clare Backs
by Adam James NallOr 'Mr Macro goes flower-picking'
A good way to walk off breakfast. From Sidney Sussex up Green Street and down through the side door of Trinity. Across the backs and through Clare College, past the front of Caius, Senate House and back to Sidney. Phew!
Some experiments in macro on all the lovely flowers in Trinity and Clare. They really are fantastic!
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More Cambridge photos here:
http://adamnall.cantabphotos.com/photographers/adam_nall/070530200228/
Date taken: 21/04/08
Categories:
Cambridge Colleges
Cambridge Views
Flowers
Landscapes
Wildlife
Photoshoot - Frances
by Adam James NallTaken: 16/04/08
Model: Frances
Please contact the photographer for photo/poster print options/prices.
Date taken: 16th April 2008
Categories:
People
RAG Charity Auction 2008
by Adam James NallSidney Sussex College RAG Charity auction 2008.
Custard wrestling, pole dancing, personalised sonnets, fresher strip, personal trainers and auctioneering galore! Generated over £1000 for several good causes.
PHOTO SALE PROFITS TO RAG CHARITY
Categories:
Cambridge Colleges
Cambridge Life
Cambridge Views
Dance
People
Performance
Sport
Vexations (mono)
by Adam James Nall19:00 24th Nov - 14:30 25th Nov
Sidney Sussex College Music Society presents:
Vexations - Erik Satie
1 piano
10 pianists
20 hours of continuous music
performed by:
Paul Kilbey, Jamal Sutton, Jesper Carlson, Kim Ashton, James Freeman, Tom Athorne, Sarah Latto, Lydia Slobodian, MatthewTait, Will Buchanan, Joe Scott, and Emily Smith.
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Although Erik Satie wrote Vexations in 1893 its premiere had to wait until 1963, when the experimental composer John Cage organised a performance in New York. Quite why the piece had to wait seventy years for its first performance is, one is forced to admit, not really a mystery. Logistically it is a nightmare, commercially it is ridiculous, and musically it is a trail of endurance for performers and audience alike. However, since its premiere, a considerable number of performances have taken place, some of them lasting as long as 28 hours. Work has even been done studying its effect on the brain. Was all this what Satie actually intended, when he flippantly wrote:
"To play this motif 840 times in succession, it would be advisable to prepare oneself beforehand, in the deepest silence, by grave immobilities."
at the top of his score? We will never know, and therein lies the vexation.
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These are the mono series taken during (some) of the 20 hour performance. The music was un-nerving and bloody weird, I thought the photos should be too!
SSCMS website:
http://www.srcf.ucam.org/sscms
Date taken: 19:00 24th Nov - 14:30 25th Nov
Categories:
Cambridge Life
People
Performance
Bordeaux
by Benjamin DrewWine, dare I say it, trumps my interest in photography. However, I hope this album illustrates that the two are not entirely incompatible.
Despite the illustrious fame that many of these chateau have achieved through the quality of their wines, the people are generous, welcoming and self-effacing. Their chateau's are beautifully maintained and carefully tended - a timid suggestion of their dedication to quality in wine.
Date taken: June 2006
Categories:
Landscapes
Travel
