Headstrong: Women and Empowerment
I was fortunate last week to go to the new Centre for British Photography in London. Opened in January this year, one of its first...
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valeriehuggins0
- Mar 14
- 4 min
Women-only Exhibitions - are they appropriate?
Reflecting on the experience of visiting the all-female Action, Gesture, Paint Exhibition at the Whitechapel and the Headstrong Women and...
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valeriehuggins0
- Mar 13
- 3 min
Action, Gesture, Paint!
As a creative photographer wanting to explore new avenues, I often need a 'reboot' or new inspirations for my photography. So, in pursuit...
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valeriehuggins0
- Feb 21
- 2 min
Seeing the familiar in new ways
"And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves." Virginia Woolf One of my favourite...
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valeriehuggins0
- Feb 13
- 4 min
Taking risks: seeking 'bleak' and 'wild'
The latest ICM (#intentionalcameramovement) challenge from #Charlotte Bellamy is to capture 'Bleak or Wild'. My thoughts immediately...
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valeriehuggins0
- Feb 9
- 3 min
Seeking Connections
February. The shortest month in our calendar. Short days, long nights, and cold. A month to wish quickly past. In Ethiopia the shortest...
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valeriehuggins0
- Jan 26
- 3 min
Thinking Lines
One of the challenges of keeping one's enthusiasm for a hobby such as photography is finding new things to photograph. Especially at this...
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valeriehuggins0
- Jan 22
- 4 min
Playing with street photography
Starting this new year of photography with new ways of photographing the world around me by learning a new genre: street photography....
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valeriehuggins0
- Jan 19
- 3 min
January Joys
My Winter Writing Sanctuary with Beth Kempton is now complete. I have wallowed in writing about undoing, retreating, aloneness, and also...
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valeriehuggins0
- Jan 1
- 4 min
New beginnings
Happy New Year! Welcome to 2023. My 65th New Year. That seems unreal. As I went to sleep last night, on the last day of 2022, I reflected...
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valeriehuggins0
- Dec 17, 2022
- 3 min
Challenging Challenges!
During the past six months I have been submitting images to an online Intentional Camera Movement (ICM) photography challenge organised...
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valeriehuggins0
- Nov 29, 2022
- 3 min
Autumn fading into winter
Autumn is an amazing tine of year for photography. The wonderful colours, the low light, and the variety in the shadows all work together...
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valeriehuggins0
- Nov 13, 2022
- 3 min
11.11.11.2022
A pause at 11 am on the 11th day of 11th month. I happened to be in Exmouth and so I stood with a few others at the War Memorial on the...
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valeriehuggins0
- Nov 9, 2022
- 2 min
Architectural ICM - a step too far for me?
The final morning of my creative retreat. Thoughts already turning to the homeward journey later in the day. There is a feeling of change...
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valeriehuggins0
- Nov 5, 2022
- 2 min
Mists, cobwebs and dragon's breath: autumnity
The last full day of my time here in the Netherlands and it was a joy. We went to Posbank VeluweZoom national park, one of the few places...
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valeriehuggins0
- Nov 4, 2022
- 3 min
The wood with the dancing trees
Today we went to the renowned Speulderbos nature reserve to continue our creative photography journey. It is one of the oldest forests in...
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valeriehuggins0
- Nov 4, 2022
- 2 min
Autumn, the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness
It is the beginning of November and, after one of our hottest and driest summers ever, our garden in Devon is now filled with roses in...
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valeriehuggins0
- Sep 28, 2022
- 1 min
Streets of Singapore
Another adventure and another challenge for my photography. Staying with family in Singapore for a while and enjoying taking snapshots...
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valeriehuggins0
- Sep 13, 2022
- 3 min
The challenges of creating the abstract
The latest challenge set by #charlottebellamy https://www.charlottebellamy.com/ was 'Abstract'. This really was a challenge as I guess...
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valeriehuggins0
- Sep 8, 2022
- 3 min
Torrents in Topsham
I belong to a lovely local U3A photography group. Each month we each contribute three images on a theme. Over the past few years, I have...
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