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FENS AT RISK
The RPS Contemporary SIG conference 2023 will be a weekend looking into the issues of the Fenlands near Cambridge, featuring speakers...
peter corr
May 8, 2023


Fenland in Winter, Monochrome Landscape Photography
Fenland Landscape Photography Monochrome
peter corr
Nov 28, 2022


Book publisher looks for dark images of the Fenlands and look who he finds!
'Debris' Book by Andrew Humphrey 'A Punch to the Heart' Book by Andrew Humphrey 'Fenland' A book of landscape photography by Peter Corr...
peter corr
May 2, 2022


Fenland Images and Photography Book Available
Followers of this blog will have an idea about the number of photographs I have taken of the Cambridgeshire Fenlands. Most of the...
peter corr
Dec 30, 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...
peter corr
Apr 1, 2021


Two Fenland houses on Ten Mile Bank reminded me of a famous photograph taken by Diane Arbus.
Two Houses on Ten Mile Bank Fenlands Identical Twins, Roselle, New Jersey, 1967 Diane Arbus Don’t worry, I’m not claiming to have...
peter corr
Mar 2, 2021


Did you know that trees can drown?
River Great Ouse at Earith, Fenlands Submerged agricultural land is quite common at this time of year in the Cambridgeshire Fenlands but...
peter corr
Feb 22, 2021


Living behind an Embankment
House on The Ten Mile Bank Road, Fenlands This photograph was taken on the Ten Mile Bank Road near Little Downham in the Cambridgeshire...
peter corr
Feb 21, 2021


Bram Stoker would have loved Ely Cathedral in the Winter
Ely Cathedral from the River Great Ouse Bram Stoker was inspired by Whitby Abbey to write the story of Count Dracula. Had he visited Ely...
peter corr
Feb 6, 2021


Abandoned Farmhouse near Chatteris
Abandoned Farmhouse at Curf Fen Drove, Chatteris The Fenland has visual riches in abundance, but these treasures are easily overlooked or...
peter corr
Feb 4, 2021


The House at Southery
A House on the outskirts of Southery, Norfolk In the Fenlands, a house is a mute record, a repository of thoughts, memories, and lives...
peter corr
Jan 20, 2021


An American Road Movie in Monochrome
This is an archetypal Fenland landscape, just near Gold Hill, close to the Old Bedford River. There are no physical hills in the Fenlands...
peter corr
Jan 19, 2021


Telegraph Pole and Tree
The Fenland landscape belongs to Winter. In football terms, Summer relegates the Fenlands to the third division or possibly a non-league...
peter corr
Jan 18, 2021


A Gothic Melodrama unfolds at Ely Cathedral
Ely Cathedral and Photography differs from painting. Paintings liberate the artist from the tyranny of the subject and the objectivity of...
peter corr
Dec 8, 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....
peter corr
Dec 7, 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...
peter corr
Dec 6, 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...
peter corr
Dec 3, 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...
peter corr
Nov 28, 2020


Power, Dynamism and Energy, a sculpture by the French artist, Bartoldi.
Place des Terreaux 1st arrondissement of Lyon The man who created the Statue of Liberty in New York also created this powerful sculpture...
peter corr
Oct 25, 2020


The Visual Poetry of Dublin’s Streets: The St. JA, Purveyors of Fine W.
The St. JA, Purveyors of Fine W They say that Dublin is the City of Literature and I have to agree. It may not be W.B, Yeats or Seamus...
peter corr
Oct 20, 2020
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