SNEAKY TEASE

Of things to come.
Namely, degree show.

I've been a bit quiet recently.
With good cause though, I'm actually getting paid to design things for a few days. Seriously, I'm actually LIVING THE DREAM. Only for a few days, but it's everything I'd ever hoped for.

I want your thoughts...

Well, in just over a week... It'll be time to start setting up my degree show.
So... basically that's choosing work which I want to show my family, friends, potential employers, and the general public. Oh and also that will help me pass my degree.
It's quite a daunting prospect.

I've kind of made the decision that I want to include some photography.
Little bit of a reminisce here, but bear with me... I remember on boxing day 2002, my family and I went for a walk to a nature reserve not far from our home. For christmas we'd got a family digital camera. Until then, photography for me had been a thing saved for special occasions. Group family photos, birthdays etc.
Anyway, I took a picture, and I thought it was quite good. So, I joined DeviantArt, put it on there, and a couple of other people immediately said they thought it was quite good too.
You can see it here

Looking at it 8 years on, of course, I think it's a pretty mediocre photo. Poorly composed, dull subject matter... But at the time I was EXCITED, and commandeered the family camera and took lots more similar photos. I got bored of landscapes pretty soon... I know landscapes are ever changing, beautiful, and pretty much infinite, but I realised I was more interested in urban photography, surface texture, and that's basically what my photography has been ever since.

I don't kid myself that I'm any kind of good photographer... technical stuff is a mystery to me, focal length, exposure times, white balance... I know all the words, but not how to actually make them do what they're meant to do, and my limited adventures in film photography - while occasionally successful - have mainly consisted of money wasting over exposures, under exposures, or just blank film.
Now I just take pictures of things I like, and enjoy doing it.

So yeah, I've decided that I'd quite like to include some black and white photography in my exhibition. One of my tutors suggested it, and ever since then I've been considering what I'd like to put in.

Normally, I'd show these around the studio and see what people think... but we don't have a studio any more, so I'm going to show you all on the internet. I'd like to put somewhere between 6 and 10 up, so I want them to work well together.

Let me know which numbers you like, if any :)

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I am walking around in circles

Metaphorically speaking.
I just think I'm becoming slightly obsessed with making circular work.
Oh well! Here's more experiments for the cropping project, the best so far, in my opinion.

'sperimentin'

The end is nigh...

... and I'm starting to get a bit scared.
But anyway, that's not what this blog is about, this blog is about me attempting to get old projects finished to a higher standard. These are my degree show posters. For once, no critique requested, because as far as I'm concerned these are DONE, and I don't intend to do anything else to them (unless it's anything tiny I've missed like errors in spacing, leading etc.)
Normally I wouldn't just declare 'that's it, no more work to be done on these'... but with less than two weeks to go till hand in, and three other projects on the go, this is going to have to be an end to these.
Enjoy... I hope!