4.karen_jefferyDownload It was a relief to get positive feedback on the essay as I'd found it hard to get it done. In hindsight, I think it was because of the slight issue that Chris has pointed out. When I was doing the background reading, I had a sense that Class was a big issue in …
Experimenting with FlipHTML
FlipHTML is some online software for creating a digital book which was recommended by a fellow student Liz. I've created the PDF in Lightroom, although there seems to be some issues with adding and deleting pages. It took me several attempts to get it right and I discovered that once I created the PDF it …
Reviewing images for Assignment Three
I visited the Naze yesterday to begin to shoot images for assignment three. I'd planned to go again today but realised a) I hadn't finished writing my research posts and b) I hadn't had chance to properly review my images and therefore was in danger of simply repeating my mistakes from yesterday. The day began …
Human altered and Nature altered Landscapes
The Naze is a mix of human-made and human-altered landscape and a natural and nature-altered Landscape. In many ways it is not entirely one or the other. It's most distant history (65 million years ago) is shaped by Climatic evolution and the shifting of tectonic plates that literally altered the geographical location (in terms of …
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Space, Place and Time
Definition of Place "Photographs slice space into place; land is framed as landscape. Representation envelopes reality; it becomes an act of colonisation. Photography contributes to characterising sites as particular types of places within the order of things. LIZ WELLS"Alexander, 2015. pg 178 In some ways, 'Space' and 'Place' are almost interchangeable, space suggests something more …
Covid Street
I've inadvertently deleted the backup files for 16000 photos! I'd been planning to have a good clear out of my 20,000 Lightroom photos but not quite that brutally. I have this vague recollection of dragging a folder titled "2016" into the trash whilst I was reorganising my picture folders. I still have JPEG's of certain …
New normal
This is my new normal for a while! I've just been reading my last reflective post which was some time ago. I'm back at work now and like many adjusting to the new normal which is strangely intense. I've recognised in the past week speaking to patients that we are going to have to be …
Assignment Four Critical review
Know Your Place: Patriotism and Class in the British Landscape. Introduction English national identity is deeply rooted in the British landscape. Is what we encounter a patriotic national pride, grounded by our links to the past or is it an overt stubborn nationalism from a warring island nation divided by class? The aim of this …
A Celebration of Photography at Lacock Abbey
In 1989, The National Trust and Kodak presented an exhibition at Lacock Abbey, 'A Celebration of Photography'. Lacock Abbey, the home of Fox Talbot and location of many of his early images has become known as the birthplace of photography. The National Trust was founded in 1894 "to preserve 'places of historic interest and natural …
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Martin Parr and British identity
Martin Parr, Porthcurno, Cornwall, England, 2017. © Martin Parr. Courtesy of Magnum Photos and Rocket Gallery. (Pound, 2020) Whilst Martin Parr would be described as a documentary photographer rather than a landscape photographer, his work is pertinent to my assignment four essay because of his focus on British identity. I don't think there is any other photographer …
Landscape, Place and Environment 