Old 35mm image.

I love Glasgows tenement flats. I would love to live in one again some day.

Where's the motivation?

I'm finding it very hard to get motivated today. I've sat and looked at countless photographs by Philip Lorca DiCorcia and Saul Leiter to get some insperation, and they will hopefully give me some motivation!

These photographs, some of DiCorcia's Hustlers series, are absolutely cracking! The lighting is amazing, which is great research for my next Uni project, 'Photography in the Magic Hour'.

I have a shoot planned for this Uni project later on this afternoon, and then one first thing tomorrow morning. I'm doing portraits for them, and I don't shoot a lot of portraits so I'm actually pretty nervous. Digital handin is next Wednesday, so if these shoots don't go to plan I still have plenty of time to pull soemthing out the bag!

I only began to know the work of Saul Leiter very recently. Leiter's colour photography of the 1950's is breathtaking!

New Books.

I never even knew TK Max sold books until yesterday when I found some wee gems hidden away in the Silverburn store.

'Love', written by Ferdinand Protzman and published by National Geographic shows a large collection of photographs quite simply showing love. Featuring work by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Martin Parr, Josef Koudelka and Robert Doisneau among many others, it is a wonderfully inspiring book.

"The family and friends in our photographs may die, move away, or become estranged from us, but in that moment when the camera's mechanical eye blinked they embodies a kind of love. It may not have endured but it existed."

What a lovely quote from the book. I must take more photos of those I love.

'Wanderlust, 30 Postcards from America' was a fantastic find. 30 postcards with images by Troy M. Litten of the wonderful side of America. One card contains 15 small images of Motel signs, another a worn down diner table, and another quite simply shows greasy fast food. This hasn't only made my desire to travel America snapping as I go much stronger, but it's also made me very very happy as it's another 30 postcards to add to my postcard collection.

The 3rd book I haven't actually looked at yet. 'Colour Photography' by Pameal Roberts. As with every general photography book I buy I hope it introduces me to photographers I'd never heard of before and inspires me in my work.



I'm now away to start my research for 'Photography in the Magic Hour'. My first set brief from block 2 in Uni.

Camera phone.

Quite often when I'm bored somewhere I just take random photos on my camera phone. Who doesn't?! On Sunday night I met my boyfriend on the train to go and stay at his, but I got to the station really early, so I snapped away on my camera phone!

Not exactly good quality, but not too bad.

It's a dogs life.

I spent the last couple of days in Edinburgh and for the first time in a very long time I went away without my 5D, in fact I only had my 35mm camera with me. So I shot everything analogue, meaning I have nothing to show today. I have one film ready to be developed and I'm feeling the anticipation of not knowing exactly what my images are going to be like.

Unfortunately my (well, borrowed from my boyfriend on long term let) lovely little 35mm Pentax died when I was about to take a photograph of an absolutely massive dog on the Royal Mile (I petted it and I think that's honestly the closest I'll get in my life to stroking a lion, it was massive!). My boyfrind did have two 35mm cameras with him though, so I borrowed one of his for the rest of the trip.

Anyway, seeing as I don't have anything to show from Edinburgh yet, here are two images shot one cold and wet day in Glasgow recently.

I have a new obsession of shooting images of dogs tied up waiting on thier owners.

This is a photo of my boyfriend Ande (blog), I think it has an almost Eastern European feel to it.

The coat is a Russian Army coat, but it's not only that giving it that sort of feel. I think it may be the Neilston train doing it as much as anything. Here is a photograph Ande shot some time ago of me, and I think it has the same feel. This one was also shot on a Neilston train!

I haven't actually ever been to Eastern Europe, so I may be talking rubbish...

I have a week or so before having to throw myself back into the deep end of Uni work, so I'll be taking this time to shoot a new project I have in mind, research lots and lots of photographers and come up with some interesting and creative ideas. Keep your eyes peeled, I'll no doubt be on blogger a lot.

3A Finals

Until December my festive friend.

I've given myself the night off doing uni work, because I think I'll go mad if I don't have a break. Although... on this, my night off, all I'm doing is editing photos, changing the layout of this and taking down my Christmas tree. I realised I hadn't taken any photographs of my Christmas tree so got the ol' Pentax film camera out an shot a few. Then, because I'm impatient, I got out my 5D and shot a few more. I'm also going to throw in a photo of my toilet looking Christmassy, it's nicer than it sounds...

Block 1 of uni is almost over. Can't wait to get stuck into next block! I'll get my final images for this block up on here soon.

Just a bit of fun...

Whilst looking through the blog of fellow photographer Stew Bryden http://stewbrydenphoto.tumblr.com/page/1 I came across a photo that reminded me of a photograph I shot one sunny summers afternoon in the studio in Partick. It's of my wonderfully beautiful best friend Fiona, who just so happens to be a fantastic make-up artist, and it's all just a bit of fun!

The book she is holding up in front of her is 'Motel Fetish' by Chas Ray Krider.

I think I may need to purchase that book (but hide it from my mum and dad) because it'll be wonderful referance material for a research project I am considering doing. More about that some other day...