Oceanography

For the past 10 weeks we have been working on a book project which was entirely self initiated.
Since moving to Plymouth I thought it would be a good idea to explore the place a lot more by travelling to different beaches along the south west. I have always wanted to live by the sea, and one day I hope to travel the world properly so this was a great experience for me. The pictures are made by a D.I.Y pinhole camera I brought in London at the national portrait gallery, it takes 35mm film and is very easy to use.
Below are a few pictures from the book I made called "Oceanography".
Enjoy!

Plymouth 

Plymouth

Whitsand bay

Wembury

Wembury

Paignton

Paignton

Whitsand bay

Whitsand bay

Plymouth University

So I got into Plymouth University! I'm aware this is months and months late but I haven't had a fully working laptop in a while, but since starting university its been great! I've not learnt a lot as of yet, but the lectures are really interesting and some of the projects are pretty cool. Currently we're working on making a book, in which I am photographing seascapes with a Pinhole camera.
I'm going to be putting up some of my university projects so far along with pictures from Amsterdam and Paris.

Lloret de mar

Last month in June I went to Lloret de mar in Spain. This was purely for a holiday and to get away for a while, however during the week I was away I did take three cameras and managed to get a few shots out and about. One evening attended a Medieval night at a huge castle in which actors put on a display of jousting, we also had a whole chicken each and had to eat it with our hands, although I had vegetable pie. Afterwards we were all taken into a big room where bands performed as well as some traditional Spanish dancers, it was really amazing. The photo's below are from my digital camera.

Spanish dancer

Spanish dancer

Spanish dancer

Spanish dancer

Woodland area- Lloret de mar

Woodland area- Lloret de mar

Woodland area- Lloret de mar

Woodland area- Lloret de mar

Woodland area- Lloret de mar

Lloret de mar high street 

Hotel view- Lloret de mar

Hotel view- Lloret de mar

"Call me Stella"

For the past two months we have been working towards our final major project at college. For my project I deiced to document my mother and her relationship with alcohol. Inspired by Deidre O'Callaghan I was to document things about the place as well as my mothers day-to-day life. This wasn't an easy project for me, and I found it quite hard however, these are the results. 

Redeemer Nightclub, Leicester

The photographs below were taken at Redeemer Nightclub in Leicester. I've been working there for almost a year now and below are just a few of what I've done. Nightclub photography isn't my type at all, but I mainly went into it for the experience, with this gaining a huge amount of confidence at the same time. The photo's look like they might be point and shoot, but that's where its different, every club is different. Redeemer in particular is very dark and has a lot of coloured lights as well as smoke machines, for a photographer smoke machines are the worst! There are so many different things you have to be aware of when taking nightclub photo's that you might not usually do taking photo's out in the open. The settings I use is a 1/6 Shutter f.3.5 ISO:100 (with an attached speed light) I found these settings worked best and also the quality of the photo's outside managed to stay the same and didn't become over exposed which was great. Still after all this time I cannot say I've managed to learn the complete technique. 

A day at Kilby Bridge

Today my dad, brother and I went up to Kilby to visit the new train bridge that has recently been built. This was the second time they had been and the first time for myself. Growing up around trains its strange to think that I've never really had much interest in them like my dad, but today I took the time out to spend some time with my family and to see what I could get. I'm quite pleased with the results as I didn't haven't much  confidence to start with but it ended on a good note. I particularly like the first one, the strangest thing about this photograph is that my dad and I captured the same composition without either of us knowing.

Class 66- Kilby Bridge  

Meridean InterCity 125- Kilby Bridge 

Grand union canal- Kilby

I walk past this tree across the fields when I walk from my mums to my dads. The first picture was taken with my dad two years ago, the second one today. I'm not sure what I like about this tree other than it stands in the middle of a field, I think from now on I will capture the tree in all seasons.

July 2011

April 2013

Italy

Last week from the 25th - 28th February the photography department visited Bergamo, Italy. I've never particularly crazed about going to Italy like most people, although after staying in Bergamo I'd like to stay in Sicily as this is where most tourists go due to how beautiful it is. It was amazing to actually be in Italy and walking around on the cobble stone paths and down tall narrow streets as it's usually seen only in films.
On the second day we visited a Museum in Milan, we also got given the chance to climb the Dumo di Milano which is Milan's Cathedral Church one the Milan's main tourist attractions. The Cathedral is the fifth largest in the world!
Below are a few photo's around Bergamo and Milan.

Milan trainstation, Milan 

Cityscape, Bergamo 

Waiters, Milan 

Dumo Di Milano, Milan 

Lady and dog, Bergamo 

Cityscape, Milan 

Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, Milan 

Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, Milan 

For more photo's http://www.flickr.com/photos/62313872@N05/

Birmingham

Last week I went to Birmingham to visit a friend and decided it would be an idea to take a few photo's. Unfortunately due to the freezing cold weather I gave up after two photo's. Anyway I really like how colourful they both are.

Council House, Birmingham   

Mailbox lights, Birmingham