YORKSHIRE

Today we took a college trip to Yorkshire, where we visited the Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield, and Yorkshire Sculpture park. The Sculptures were not something I would usually be interested in but I found some of them really inspiring. At Yorkshire Sculpture Park I was taken by the powerful pieces towering over you outside, as well as the ‘Twenty Nine Palms’ piece casting gorgeous shifting shadows on the floor and walls.

KEDLESTON HALL



It wasn't the nicest of days for a college trip to visit Kedleston hall, with constant drizzle, but although this stopped any outdoor studies inside the house was lavish, grand and beautiful.

These pictures aren't the best as I had my bad camera with me!

WEEK 2 PHOTOGRAPHY

Capturing the culture of Chesterfield. As I don't live near Chesterfield I had no pre-concieved ideas of what it was like, so it was interesting to see how my photos turned out. However it was a little more difficult than I first thought. Like Johnny Stiletto's pictures, I didn't look at the camera screen, just imagined the picture and direction, but even though I was doing this people still noticed the camera and I got alot of stares, or they started posing for the pictures! But overall I think I got a few good pictures, and chose to put them in this order to show the difference between the busy market and the pictures in between walking down to the park.

JOEL MEYORWITZ

New York City, 1975

I love Joel Meyorwitz's pictures capturing the energy of the bustling streets of New York. There is elements of chaos and busy people bringing the picture alive, however they are also carefully taken.I love how you can imagine a little story by looking at each individual engrossed in their own activities and thoughts, from those taking a slow stroll to those hurridly rushing past the steet corner.

Winter, Tuscany, 2002

This picture couldn't be more different to his NYC images, but the use of light and  pastel-hues in this early morning mist is just wonderful. Utter perfection.

Hartwig House, Truro, 1976

I love the composition of the picture, and how only a tiny bit of a room is visable and all the many doors, one leading outside to what looks like a gorgeous summers day, making me want to go and explore the vintage looking house. The use of white and cream is the opposite of dull and boring, and instead creates a free and dreamy feel to the picture.

WEEK 1 PHOTOGRAPHY

West Block: This is my favourite picture. I knew what I was going to take a photo of in the west block straight away. I noticed this window the first time I was walking up the old steps of the building, and loved how the ivy was creeping up and coming inside through the window. My favourite part of the picture is the worn out look and the colours of the dark windowsill and ivy contrasting against the sunlight coming through.

The Main Entrance: I feel this picture reflects the busy college life perfectly, with the students unaware of the picture being taken, engaged in their own thoughts, entering and leaving the building.

Student Services: I like the composition of the photo, and how it captures the way I feel about student services, with the dull white walls, the clock simbolising time going slowly and neat information board -  dim, slightly edgeless and unimaginative.

The library: I had to take this photo in my favourite part of the library, the photography section! And I love the vintage feel of the books, the way the picture shows they are slightly worn-out and have obviously been read over and over by so many different students.

The Dome: In this picture I wanted to capture the hight of the dome, but while I was doing this someone else was also taking a similar picture, so I moved behind him and love the idea of capturing someone else taking a photo in the picture.