RPS Studio Photography workshop

Reading around the subject as I leave for the course on Tuesday. The 'Portrait Photographer's Handbook', 3rd Ed. By Bill Hurter is good.

Vagjazz, The Menopausal Photographer

I have given myself a pseudonym name to reflect my current personal, physical and social  situation as a photographer. Weegee did it in the 19th century. I have just tweeted and due to the phone using predictive text changed his name to Refer which isn't so bad but Weegee is,better!

Get up and go has got up and gone

Struggling with my Mojo. Just can't get motivated to read, return books, write or take pictures. The Masters restarts next month, don't know when. The start date won't make any difference to me anyway as there is no taught component to the course. I have a Royal Photographic Society studio course in a few weeks. It may help to get me going. Shutter fingers crossed!

Studio Photography Course looming-and its back to the Masters.

I am going on a course with the Royal Photographic Society next month. In some respects I am looking forward to it, in other respects I am not. It will take me outside my comfort-zone, thats the good thing....its also the not so good thing.

I find studio photography pretentious, I actually don't see the point of it so maybe this course will shatter those forgone opinions. I am hoping it will help me with portrait photography. I have borrowed a book about Studio Photography by way of preliminary homework and I hope it will give me some pointers


On the Master's front, it starts again in a couple of weeks. I am not really looking forward to it, I have procrastinated alot over the summer.

Damien Hurst exhibition at the Tate Modern-uugh!

I went to see this earlier in the week. I was on the South Bank and have been thinking for some time how seeing galleries, art, photography might help me to understand it more, that it might have an impact on my own photography as art. 

Well, it just wont do! After seeing this it is unlikely I will visit another artist's work ever again! What a load of old tripe! Having said that, if you like dead stuff, flies, death, attrition and a bloke with frozen animals to which a chainsaw has been applied, you are in good company!

it seems to me that, these days, because everything has been done to death, death is the only thing left to make something of. Its gross. Humans must have more creativity to them. Someone somewhere must have a different perspective on beauty that doesn't involve death and decay. It isn't beautiful, but it is necessary.

Underwater Groupon Photography

Its not for me. I think I need to rule out underwater photography as an aspect of my photography which will elude me-in terms of diving at least. Pain in my ear again on Tuesday after the pool practice dive on Monday. I don't want to risk a punctured ear drum and so I have,decided to withdraw. Hopefully Groupon will give me a refund.
Not to worry. In London for a day next week so I will check out some photography galleries. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Pool practice tonight

I am not looking forward to this. As much as it would be great to dive and take pictures I don't think my ears will cope. Since last weeks pool dive I have tried to clear my ears 5x a day and been unable to do it. I also had pain in my ear last Tuesday, the morning after the pool dive. I love being underwater and floating. Diving is great but I am getting older.