4/4/2013-Selectively Flowering Heather!

Went out today to look for some daytime images in line with today's photocalendar. Today's subject was images taken outside the golden hours in the morning and evening in whatever weather. I agree with John Gravett when he talks about your camera being useless outside of these hours when that philosophy is adopted. I think many images are just as good between sunrise and sunset although I don't think my effort here reflects that! 
I actually wanted to go onto the moors to get images of heather in flower. I noted the heather was in flower in town and in gardens, but alas, not so on the moors. The heather there is still black with no signs of growth yet.

Chilled Out Doggy

30/03/2013
Went to the pub last night to see a band (and check out some real ale!). Took the dogs, this one shows a chilled out, stretched out doggy. Good band, good ale.

"Expressive Photography", Review-The Shutter Sisters, Focal Press, Elsevier, Oxford, UK. ISBN:978-0-240-81347-9

I have just finished reading this book by the Shutter Sisters . It gets 10/10. Absolutely brilliant. My Masters Photography project is tapping into gender issues along with conversations I am having with women photographers and this fits in there nicely. I am rapidly coming to the view that society is patriarchal as are is it's systems and attitudes. Even the way women photographers take pictures is done in a male way. This book is different. The images, explanations, motivations for taking the images are very tender, nurturing, thought provoking, very female. The attitude and approach is completely different from the way things are written that I have read. It's beautiful, a work of art. I would highly recommend it to women and to male photographers especially as a way to add depth to images taken in their accompanying narrative. It also provokes thought as to why your images are as they are, and, generally speaking, offers ideas as to how to approach and record subjects in the future.

Happy New Year and New Year resolutions.

Happy New Year to you all.
My New Year resolution for photography is to take myself out of, my comfort zone even more. To continue to improve my confidence by asking more people to take their pictures. To have more goes at studio and portrait images. To spend more time on worthwhile images and to develop a faster eye to eliminate poor and not to bother with images. If I find other resolutions, I will add them.