MOVING IN ANOTHER DIRECTION This Post is being typed over the space left by my half completed, but now deleted, C&N Assignment 3 which, as I have taken the decision to leave the course, is no longer relevant to me, hence the deletion. The decision comes as a result of personal year’s end reflections and Resolutions […]Read Post ›
TWO PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITIONS – TWO RESPONSES I had an excellent opportunity to compare two styles of photographs last Tuesday and to be aware of my interesting responses to them. I have recently joined a U3A photography group in order to feel some connection with fellow local photographers and to open myself to the learning opportunities […]Read Post ›
LIGHT STARTS TO BREAK THROUGH THE MIST AND CONFUSION A week is a long time in politics – and also in OCA photography courses it would seem. Since I published my ‘last post’, in which I said that I had decided to leave the C&N course and the OCA, a lot has happened. After posting […]Read Post ›
GOODBYE TO THE OCA COURSE I have come to a final and very difficult decision. After considerable thought, soul searching and indecision I have finally decided that I no longer want to continue with the Context & Narrative course and I am therefore withdrawing from the OCA Photography degree course. This is particularly difficult for me […]Read Post ›
“The best part of us is not what we see, it’s what we feel. We are what we feel. We are not what we look at… We’re not our eyeballs, we’re our mind. People believe their eyeballs and they’re totally wrong… That’s why I consider most photographs extremely boring – just like Muzak, inoffensive, charming, […]Read Post ›
In order to lead me into the consideration of postmodernism in art and literature, I am asked to read and reflect on two essays by Roland Barthes (1915 – 80), a French literary theorist, philosopher, linguist and critic who, inter alia, expended considerable time and effort on trying to dismantle myths of popular culture. THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR […]Read Post ›
The opportunity came up to attend a two day course in macro photography locally so, as these sort of things do not happen often, I jumped at the chance. The course, held over the weekend of 9th and 10th July 2016 was led by James Dunbar (*1) , an experienced wildlife photographer and film maker […]Read Post ›
Today is the day for me to discuss my thoughts with my tutor and I am nervous about how it will go. I do not like telephone conversations at the best of times because I find it difficult to establish a mental connection and rapport without also being able to establish a visual connection. I […]Read Post ›
I have reached a crunch point in my studying with the OCA. The question is – do I stay or do I go? Rather like the EU referendum question, there is so much to consider on both sides of the argument and so little to really get hold of to form a clear view, and it […]Read Post ›
As John Berger’s book ‘Ways of Seeing’ was the first title on the “Essential Reading” list for my course I decided to read this first. Another reason for deciding to read it now was that I have been struggling with an appreciation of much contemporary photography for a while and I hoped that learning new […]Read Post ›
DAVID GARDNER PHOTOGRAPHY 