Hastings
Just a little update, because I haven't done a journal entry in more than a week. I spent a couple of days away. Tried to get a few pics for various projects - worked on the sequence project for example, and no seagull in Sussex has gone unphotographed. I think I might have a few that I will use for the sequence, but I still have a few other ideas I'd like to try. I wanted to also get a bit of practice in with landscapes - some raw material to start playing with for assignment 4, and I think I got those. Also worked a little on other projects but I didn't get any real images that made me wild with excitement. Weather was crappy as could be expected, but I still enjoyed being out for a bit. Monday morning was really gorgeous. Even though the temp said 0 degrees Celsius, it felt much warmer - tshirt and hoodie weather. We spent the morning at the Harbour (if you can call it that) in Hastings, letting the puppy run wild, chasing seagulls, sometimes with them chasing him. There was no rain, no wind, no snow, and gorgeous sun - the birds making their little squawking noises, the smell of the ocean, the feel of sun . . . and the distant sounds of fisherman working on the few boats that were around. It reminded me how much I miss being out and how much I despise being cramped up at home for 6 months a year. I am so incredibly ready for winter to be over.
Anyway . .. besides that, I worked very hard the past month on Projects for PWDP, and I posted many of them. I'm very pleased with my progress, and the idea is that now, for the following three months I will mostly be focusing on working on the skills I have already learnt and bettering them, as well as working on Assignment 2 and 3. Two I already have images for, although I'm not sure if I'm entirely satisfied with the idea I have so far. But more about that later. Assignment three is a written assignment, and I'm in the process of doing a large amount of research, searching through images, and reading books for the prep for this. I'm enjoying both of these processes a lot.
I also received my feedback from my tutor for assignment one (which I still need to post) and I'm satisfied with it. I think I did well with the assignment, and that makes me smile because it was a real struggle for me at times. But I am much more interested and engaged in the sections after the First assignment, and that's really exciting.
So that's it for now, from me. I'm currently reading "reGeneration: 50 photographers of tomorrow". It's about young photographers and what they're up to at the outset of the twenty-first century. I like the book, because we so often go back in history to see what the masters have done. But I think particularly with digital photography and image enhancement is concerned, it's important to look at the future as well, and what is possible, and which way photography can/ does go. I am particularly taken with Katerina Drzkova's landscapes and how it questions the reality between landscapes and representation. But once again, more about that later.
I leave you with a seagull pic from Hastings.
Anyway . .. besides that, I worked very hard the past month on Projects for PWDP, and I posted many of them. I'm very pleased with my progress, and the idea is that now, for the following three months I will mostly be focusing on working on the skills I have already learnt and bettering them, as well as working on Assignment 2 and 3. Two I already have images for, although I'm not sure if I'm entirely satisfied with the idea I have so far. But more about that later. Assignment three is a written assignment, and I'm in the process of doing a large amount of research, searching through images, and reading books for the prep for this. I'm enjoying both of these processes a lot.
I also received my feedback from my tutor for assignment one (which I still need to post) and I'm satisfied with it. I think I did well with the assignment, and that makes me smile because it was a real struggle for me at times. But I am much more interested and engaged in the sections after the First assignment, and that's really exciting.
So that's it for now, from me. I'm currently reading "reGeneration: 50 photographers of tomorrow". It's about young photographers and what they're up to at the outset of the twenty-first century. I like the book, because we so often go back in history to see what the masters have done. But I think particularly with digital photography and image enhancement is concerned, it's important to look at the future as well, and what is possible, and which way photography can/ does go. I am particularly taken with Katerina Drzkova's landscapes and how it questions the reality between landscapes and representation. But once again, more about that later.
I leave you with a seagull pic from Hastings.
