Starting A New Year

Having sucessfully completed and passed my first year, I am back in Cornwall and ready to start my second year. Having had moments of uncertainty within the first year I am ready for my second and determined to be more organised and to be more motivated.

I passed my first year with just one distinction, which was in my Website and Blog project and this year I hope to achieve more at this higher level.

During our break we have been set a little summer project which was to take a set of 12 images revolving around/ responding to one of a few given themes/ words. These were:

• Red
• Smoke
• Beginning
• Slow
• Summer Sun
• Corrupted
• Love

We were to then present these images on a disc with all the correct file names and metadata etc. My first inital thoughts were of the summer sun option, however, with a little inspiration from my boyfriend, I decided to do the project around the idea; Slow. The idea here revolved around the idea of using a long shutter speed and a long exposure - a slow processing. This would mean experimenting with night photography as a long exposure during the day would surely not turn out as i'd plan.

Unfortunately I was not very enthused with the project and only did a small amount of experimenting with the camera. My best images came from the Bristol Balloon Fiesta, where there was a Balloon Glow on one of the nights.

With this idea not going to plan, I decided to go with the option Red. Here decided to take the literal meaning of red as in the colour of the objects or something with red in the title. Here are a few of these images: