I’ve been off the pace on blogging lately, for which I apologise. Things are busy here with a lot of projects on the go.
One thing that’s been keeping me busy is a Basic Digital Photography course at Warwick College in Leamington. It’s a 10-week stint, 3 hours teaching a night so quite a bit in there. I’ve already signed up for the intermediate course to follow in April and the plan is to go on to do a City and Guilds course in September, jumping straight in to year 2.
We’re now four weeks in to the Basic course and I have really been enjoying it. It’s cemented my understanding of the relationship between time and light, which reading books or playing with my camera on my own never managed to do for me. As I see more of other peoples’ work (15 in our group) happening in real time, I learn more about my own eye and am a little bit more centred in how I want my pictures to look. I feel less out of the loop between the camera and the scene in front of it – I now feel the light coming through the lens, up the mirror into my brain and down to my fingers, which is something I have never felt before.
Am I excited? Yes! But slightly terrified at the same time. I can imagine a time where there will be a cohesive creative streak running between the words I write and the pictures I take, but that is a long way off yet. For the minute I am just having fun, finding out what light looks like when you hold on to it that little bit longer. This is a long exposure shot at 2am the other night, with a frosty full moon lighting Woodford up like a stage. The amber is a street light and the Varmint is still waiting. I love the stars in that soft blue blanket above.
These pictures are straight from the camera, no colouring in later on. I know they are nothing special unless you’re me, but it’s all part of the journey.
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Superb photos JG…
The last picture of the three is… just amazing. Aside form speaking to a Porsche-phile like me, its just an immensly strong image, regardless of subject matter. I would pay for that print in a gallery for sure.
Thanks Peter!