Fog, snow, windmills, deer and a hidden goose!

My boyfriend and I went a drive up to the Eaglesham Wind Farm yesterday. It was a really lovely drive, although a bit scary at times because of all the snow, and we couldn't see very far ahead of us at all because of the fog. It was also absolutely freezing up at the wind farm, and the sun was going down very fast, so we didn't go as long a walk as planned. Got some crackin' photos though! (If I do say so myself).

 

Can you spot the hidden goose? I didn't see it until I was editing them! The lovely wee thing :)

Digial pretending to be film.

Just over a week till hand in so it's been busy busy.

Here are a couple of things I've been doing for Image Editing 2D (you'll recognise the images from my previous entry);

Can't wait to get handed in and started on a project I have been wanting to start for a couple of weeks now...

Snow

I know it's so obvious, but I've been taking lots of photos of the snow this week. I love this weather, everything looks so much prettier when covered in snow.

Here are my favourites (I have rather a lot)...


Home sweet home :)

Quiet

Well it's been a while but I've not actually shot much for the past week or so. My whole time seems to have been taken up doing workbooks, going to class and partying as it was my boyfriends birthday last Friday, and mine on Saturday.

Here are some images that I have taken this week though. They may not be the most technically brilliant but it was just been a case of having my camera on me and snapping away! I like them though.

The first two are of my boyfrined Andrew, I don't know if it's just because I'm in this sort of mood but they feel so Christmassy to me :)

 

I've been on low level trains so much recently. This photo is taken in Glasgow Central low level station, nobody even seems to smile there, unless they are drunk. 

Glasgow Met food. These were not my chips, I wont shame the person that was eating them :-p 

Vicky and Sara waiting for Wednesday afternoon class. It's totally hit or miss if anyone is going to show up for it, this week we had quite a good turn out - 8 out of 22 of us! 

Hopefully got a shoot on Sat night which will be the start of a new portraits project that I'm doing. Portraits are not my strong point, this needs to be fixed. Also I think I'll start another project this afternoon, it's one I've been wanting to do for a while so I may as well get a start on it.

All for now!

Scotland St School shoot

I'm really pleased with my images from this shoot. They were more than happy to let me wander about taking photos for as long as I wanted. As long as I didn't go into the Victorian Classroom as a school trip was there actually getting a lesson. I could hear it all from the first room I shot in;

Kids - "A B C D E F G H I ....."
Teacher - "Yes. Now you, what comes after R?"
Kid - "Emmm....P?"
Teacher - "NO, now stay standing for the rest of the lesson!"

I was scared for that kid!

Anyway I like my images, and think they work well with a set. I'm not yet sure which one I'll use for 3A, I probably wont decide that until I've shot all my images for it, then I can see what'll work together and what wont.

Here they are;

I hope they are 'chair' enough to use for 3A.

Chairs

Had a shoot at Scotland Street School this afternoon. I think it went well, just about to start editing some of them now.

A couple of days ago I looked out my bedroom window and saw a chair sitting in the middle of my garden, so I got the camera and ladders out and shot it. I'm not sure if I'll use them as part of my 3A, guess I'll wait an see what else I get shot! Here are the two I'm most pleased with. Feed back please!

Jumble Fever

I shot photographs at Jumble Fever in the Flying Duck on Wednesday night. Unfortunatly it was quieter than usual but I managed to get some shots I am happy with. Here's a few of them.

I have a shoot in Scotland Street School next week and I am planning a day through in Edinburgh to shoot for 3A. Also keen to do more shots like my Graded project in HND2. Self portraits depicting femininity in a dream like state.

Couple of images from that...

Insperation

I am spending today researching photographers, places, lighing etc for my 3A Chairs project. I've already been on the phone to arrange a shoot for this week, and may pop round to my local 'run down' hotel to see if I can shoot there (although annoyingly I have the feeling it was done up recently). I also need to get out to The Polo Lounge soon as they are not replying to my emails, everything is better done face to face!

I did a shoot for Comic Relief Glasgow last Thursday, so I now finally have some hours to put down for Work Related Learning.

I also experimented with shooting through the plastic inside a chocolate fingers box...

This is something I may get in to more.

I have an idea for a project I want to do next block. Will do some research and send some emails today to see if it can fall together.

Canon day in Uni tomorrow, talk by Victor Albrow on Wed (amazing work, check it out at http://www.albrow.com/) and hopefully shooting for the IETM (International network for contemporary performing arts) between Thursday and Sunday.

Summer project 2010

For university we had to do a summer project on 'Unexplained Phenomina'. Tonight I have decided that I put too much time and effort into this project for it to only been seen by a few tutors. It's 11 slides long and about 2000 words so I understand if you don't read it all, but make sure you keep going until you get to my 'ghost' photograph on slide 10.

I've found a few mistakes in it tonight (so annoying) and it gets cheesy as hell towards the end but hey, I'm still proud of it!

(Click on images to make them bigger, so you can read them)

Uni work

I usually don't put any of my college/ uni work up online until it's handed in, although it's Saturday night, I'm in by myself and I'm bored. So here are 2 of my Photography 3A photos. The project, as you may guess, is chairs.

I'm not 100% sure if this is the final edit of these photos, although I am really happy with how they look. Hopefully I'll get at least another one shoot in next week, so I'll get more on here soon!

Feedback please!

Old finds.

I found an old film a while ago and when I got it developed I found these little beauties;

It's just as well I love noise!