Motivation

I've found it really hard to get 'in to' this year at uni. I've found it hard to get the motivation and insperation. I've spent a lot of time reading Berger and Sontag and stressing over writing, so today I decided to actually look at why I'm doing this course - that is photography.

I've look at my old workbooks from HND and last year, and I've looked at my photography books and images on the internet. This year it's been far too easy to forget about taking photographs and concentrate on writing about the methods and theories behind them.

(I've not even done anything with my 'Dog' series for ages!)

I don't really have any images of my own to show you from this year yet, what I have taken is sitting waiting to be edited, even looked at and developed in some cases.

What I will put up on here is images that are influencing my Photoworks project. I changed my proposal for this after handin, so I may loose 10% on my new proposal because technically it was a late handin (the one I did hand in on time was an awful idea. Me in the studio shooting self-portraits? I don't think so). I'm shooting the patterns nature creates.

Even typing that makes me smile. What I've realised more and more over my degree is that a huge amount of my work is influenced by nature and what I really love is going out to the countryside and shooting the most beautiful and natural things in the world. I don't think I look like a countryside lover, but I am.

Anyway.

Horishi Sugimoto.

Thomas Joshua Cooper

Bernhard Edmaier



Just beautiful.

Forgotten film.

I got a film scanned a while back and forgot about it. So here's some images from it...

Marilyn Monroe by Eve Arnold

So many people say it, but I do truly think that Marilyn Monroe was one of the most beautiful, sensual and elegant women ever. No body seemed to capture this quite like Magnum photographer Eve Arnold.

A Real Photographer

http://www.list.co.uk/articles/rosalind-dallas/

This really really makes me smile.

I've not posted on this in so long but this deserves a post of it's own!

Been a while

I've been in Tallinn and it was awesome. Here are some photos...

More on here flickr.

It's a dogs life.

It's been a long time since I've posted anything on this. All the photos I've been taking recently have been either on my small Sony digital compact, or on film, and a lot have been of dogs.

I was staying in Uddingston for 2 weeks looking after my sisters house and cats while she was away sunning herself in Egypt. Uddingston is a dream come true for this series, everyone has dogs!

I'm going to make a flickr page for my 'It's a Dogs Life' series this afternoon, but for now I'll show you this little beauty...

This gorgous wee dog watched me run along Main Street to capture his image. I petted his head, took a couple photos and went on my way.

I'll do an update with my flickr dogs page very soon.

Final 3B Images.

I feel like I havent taken a photograph in ages. I took one for my 'Dogs Life' series yesterday so I will have that up on here very soon.

I realise that I haven't put up my final images for 3B on here yet, so here goes.

I haven't really looked at them for a couple of weeks, but I'm still really happy with them. Definately not the end of this project.

These 6, along with 3 other images from my 'Rannoch' project, will be shown at my End of Year exhibition in WASPs Factory. Opening night Thurs 2nd June 6.30pm - 9pm, exhibition runs until Fri 10th June.

Top image on this eflyer was taken by my wonderful boyfriend Ande Murdoch (blog).