The parent category for research and reflection posts.
There has been a Lord Mayor Of London – the City Of London – since 1189. This year marks the 691st Lord Mayor, whose inauguration involves a parade from the City to the Royal Courts Of Justice via St Paul’s. My wife is involved in the running of an initiative which aims to help young people develop the skills they need for the 21st century … Continue reading The Lord Mayor’s Show
As some of you who have come to know I have developed a mild obsession with street photography. On the weekend just past, I was given an informal commission to photograph a specific float in the Lord Mayor Of London’s Show – more on that in another post – that meant spending several hours in a relatively small area of London. The day was mainly … Continue reading A First
In a week’s time – the 30th – we’re heading off for a week of boating around the Norfolk Broads. It’s pretty much an annual event on a floating gin palace from Richardson’s boatyard. As a result of past trips I have a lot of photographs from the Broads. A lot of landscapes, some of which I think are good. A few wildlife, one or … Continue reading Holiday Resolution
A short time after completing the exercises on ‘Searching’ and ‘Series’, I found myself on Crosby Beach near Liverpool and the site of Anthony Gormley’s ‘Another Place’. Now I’ve always been fascinated by what washes up on beaches, so once I’d felt I’d done as much as I could with Mr Gormley’s figures I turned my camera down and brought back around 50 photographs of … Continue reading 3.2 Series – A Revisit
Whilst I continue to struggle to find the time and people I need to complete Part 2, I’ve been getting ahead and planning for Parts 3 and 4 in the hope of completing them quickly and making up lost time. Browsing through Part 4 I noticed the projects involving montages. As I have been working a lot with layers in PS I decided to go … Continue reading A Little More Procrastination
This weekend I visited the Photo London 2018 fair at Somerset house and spent the best part of 4 hours wandering through room after room of every imaginable genre of photography. I saw iconic images from superstars like Ansel Adams, Terry O’Neill and Daido Moriyama. Individual photographs like Gustave Le Gray’s “Solar Effect in the Clouds – Ocean” (a snip at £55,000!) and Titarenko’s St. … Continue reading Photo London 2018
Part 2 of FiP has been an interesting journey so far. On one hand I’ve discovered a real love for street photography. But I’ve also struggled to find a subject that I really want to work with for ‘People & Activity’. Whilst I search for inspiration and opportunity I’ve decided to play around a bit with low light and painting with light. I’m also going … Continue reading Faces
Noun; “The occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way.” Just occasionally I have time to walk back to Waterloo along the Thames Path from my fluorescent-lit cell office in Southwark. Since starting the Foundation course I also take my compact Canon camera with me should an opportunity present itself. Wednesday evening was dark and bitterly cold, with an icy … Continue reading Serendipity
Whilst I continue to procrastinate about starting Part 2 I have at least made an attempt to get out on the streets with my camera. I’m not keen on the in-your-face approach, perhaps I’m not sufficiently confident for it. I prefer to shoot from a distance, placing people in context with their surroundings. I continue to lean towards dark or dimly lit scenes, and remain … Continue reading Procrastination
Another student on the Foundation is planning a trip to Skye. I visited the island myself in April 2016, an exhilarating if unpredictable time as far as the meteorological calendar goes! As usual I came back with a huge haul of images, which I’ve never really properly worked on. Now seems a good time to put into practice some of what I’ve learned about reviewing, … Continue reading Skye Revisited
