25.01.14 Developed 35mm from 12.01.14

19.01.14 Good Start

After last week’s personal success, I rallied on with my new year’s resolution to take more photo's and returned to Moors Valley for another walk with the ever trusty Alex. Like last week, this one was shockingly cold and the rain had flooded many paths but that did not stop us! After a long walk to the lookout we returned to the car with wet socks and (for me at least) the satisfied feeling that photography brings me.

The light today was particularly beautiful and I've vowed to be out earlier once the weather is warmer! But never the less I felt a renewed enthusiasm as I waded through bog and balance precariously over streams, and got a few hours of beautiful light before it got a little too harsh.

Below are a few of the digital images (I did not take any film)

I spent quite a while just looking at light and how I was trying to capture it, using long exposures and only the natural light available at the time. I found being away from people very relaxing and soon realised it was nature and being in nature that inspired me. I've always wanted to photograph the moss on trees or the pebbles in a river (trust me I have a hard drive full of them!) and feel that as an extension of this, perhaps that is why I found 'the Taxidermists Cupboard' project the most rewarding. 

With this in mind I want to challenge myself to be more creative as well as continuing to photograph nature. 

12.01.14 New Year Inspiration

I'm not one to make a resolution for the new year (excluding the diet and many other changes I'm currently struggling through!) but have made it a priority now to get out and take photo's. I'm ashamed to say it had been a while and I thought long and hard about getting the drive to pick up the camera and although I had lots of ideas I still felt uninspired. I eventually realised that I needed to go back to the beginning and find out what really excited me about photography when I first began as a child. This did not take much figuring out, as a child I would be given a disposable camera on holiday, which was almost always camping with my grandparents or travelling around the south of England with my parents and sisters.

I decided therefore to head out into the countryside and simply take photo's. It became abundantly clear within minutes of my walk that once I started, I was unlikely to stop! With my poor boyfriend stopping at every turn to photograph a stick I dragged him around Moors Valley country park with my digital and analogue camera bags slung about me.

It really was a beautiful day (if not a little frosty!) and I have to thank Alex for being such a sport and trailing around after me for hours, being my lens holder or baggage man!

Below are some of the digital images I shot (35mm to come).

I found this outing very refreshing. At university I'd felt under pressure to create something for everyone else and I have a new feeling of freedom knowing that now I am my own photographer, I am being creative for me and photography makes me feel magical. 

I have decided that I will continue my rambles while I raise enough money to repair my broken cameras, especially my medium format as working with film really fascinates me at the moment.