A Cambridge Diary – 4th November 2015

Setting Up a Tower Crane

In April 2014 Trinity Hall College was granted permission to redevelop the St Clement’s Gardens houses on Thompson’s Lane (fondly remembered by many alumni as “Clems”). Work started in October 2014 to construct a modern, four-storey building on the site, which will provide 72 en-suite student bedrooms.

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A Dialogue with the Dalai Lama

On 16th and 17th September this year, Lord Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury, now Master of Magdalene College hosted an unusual event in Cripps Court.  ‘Growing Wisdom, Changing People’: a Dialogue with the Dalai Lama was designed to ‘create a space where young people and leading thinkers and practitioners can explore in conversation with Lord Williams and His Holiness the concept of Universal Responsibility and what it can mean for the world’.

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Amgen Scholars Symposium 2015

Amgen Scholars have the opportunity to work alongside experienced Cambridge University faculty members, including some of the world’s top academic scientists. They work during the summer holidays undertaking hands-on laboratory research, and actively contribute to the advancement of science. Applications from undergraduates across Europe number in their thousands but only 80 are selected – these kids are the brightest of the brightest.

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Ernulf Academy Prospectus Shoot

Ernulf Academy is a secondary school and sixth form with academy status, located in St Neots – it was the first 11-18 specialist performing arts college in Cambridgeshire. The new Headteacher wasn’t happy with the imagery used in their prospectus and so contacted me at late notice to meet a printing deadline. The new Headteacher is my sister and so I said yes and worked cheap.

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Sir Harry Smith Academy 2015

Originally known as The Sir Harry Smith Secondary School and built to accommodate 600 students, the doors first opened to an intake of 360 students in September 1953. Sir Harry Smith Community College currently has over 1,200 students on roll. The majority of students at Sir Harry Smith come from the Whittlesey and neighbouring villages.

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Trinity Hall Boathouse Opening

Trinity Hall Boat Club revealed it’s newly refurbished boathouse with an official opening on 13th June 2015 by Dr Walter Scott. The improvements were made to ensure that it was secure in its footings, generous in its facilities, and up-to-date with its equipment. Following a £2 million investment it must be the smartest boathouse along the river.

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Stanground Academy 2015

Stanground Academy is a co-educational academy school and specialist college for sport in Peterborough. It has capacity for around 1,800 students and every year I am asked to photograph students for their Prospectus.

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Wormsley Cricket 2015

Wormsley has been described as the most beautiful cricket ground in England and anyone who has watched or played cricket there will never forget the experience.

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Coutts Rugby Legends

Rugby legends Phil Vickery and Alex Corbisiero visited Coutts offices in Cambridge on Monday 15th June 2015 with the RBS 6 Nations Trophy. I was asked by Coutts to take pictures of guests with the two lads during the reception.

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Trinity College Evensong

I was asked to photograph Trinity College Chapel Evensong on Wednesday 20 May. This was a special occasion as it was sung by Whitgift School Chamber Choir.

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Forget Me Not

I was happy to be asked by an old friend to photograph his daughter’s lingerie designs for the 2015 Nottingham Trent University Degree Show which we shot in the bluebell woods at Dullingham near Newmarket. Chloe Bampton was inspired by her grandparents’ wartime love letters and created a line of vintage-looking lingerie focused on nostalgia and romance.

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Trinity Hall Concert – Orpheus Britannicus

The Trinity Hall Chapel Choir performed alongside the College’s professional Ensemble in Residence, Orpheus Britannicus. The programme included works by Henry Purcell and Dieterich Buxtehude.

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International Forum 2014

Forum is a business club, a private network that extends through the personal recommendation of the existing membership. Members are drawn from the senior echelons of London’s financial community, entrepreneurs, principals & owners of family offices and luxury brands.

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Cambridge Chauffeur Punts

In September last year I was asked by Matt from Cambridge Chauffeur Punts to shoot some pictures for their new website before the leaves left the trees.

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Amgen Scholars Symposium 2014

Amgen Scholars have the opportunity to work alongside experienced Cambridge University faculty members, including some of the world’s top academic scientists. They work during the summer holidays undertaking hands-on laboratory research, and actively contribute to the advancement of science. Applications from undergraduates across Europe number in their thousands but only 80 are selected – these kids are the brightest of the brightest.

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Lodestar Festival 2014

Lodestar is the safest, friendliest and scrupulously tidiest festival that you could ever imagine. For parents of young children it’s an absolute dream – just wind them up and let them go! The Fenland sky is dramatically expansive and the site completely free of any mud – just acres of lush grass.

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Cycle of Songs

Cycle of Songs was an Arts Council England funded project commissioned by Cambridge City Council, devised by the award winning Pilot Theatre and Historyworks to mark the Tour de France visit to Cambridge on 7 July 2014.

The project showcased and celebrated the talent and diversity of Cambridge and includes many local people of all ages sharing their voice and celebrating the city in song. Nine pieces were commissioned from a wide range of composers and poets, inspired by historical research & based on words from original sources of fascinating & quirky stories at iconic locations along the Tour’s route in Cambridge.

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Forum Cricket Match 2014

Wormsley has been described as the most beautiful cricket ground in England and anyone who has watched or played cricket there will never forget the experience. A red telephone box sits next to the thatched pavilion, overlooking the immaculate field of play and the sloping Chiltern Hills beyond. Red Kites wheel overhead, floating on the air currents while the game unfolds below.

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Arthur Mellows Prospectus Shoot 2014

Arthur Mellows Village College is an academy in Peterborough with a specialism in technology with an outstanding reputation supported by glowing OFSTED Inspection reports. Every year I am asked to take pictures for their website and college prospectus.

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The Cardboard Boat Race

Cambridge University students celebrated the end of exams last weekend on the day that’s dubbed ‘Suicide Sunday’ – apparantly named as it’s a veritable miracle the undergrads haven’t ended it all by this point. A recent component to the celebrations is the Cardboard Boat Race which involves the building and sailing of cardboard boats down the River Cam.

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