Peaches and Cream Competition

Here is a Collage of the Images I have submitted to the Milim.com Competition "Peaches and Cream"

Summer Show

Images from the Summer Show Exhibition

Plymouth College of Art

Foundation Degree

 Second Year Students (Friends)

Me with my Print

Photograph taken by Chris Parnell

Final Major Project Grade

I'm trying really hard not to be disappointed about my FMP Grade, but I am feeling disheartened. I worked really hard for five months on this project, and I don't feel that my grade reflects the effort and work I put into it.

My Grade was three percent short of a First.

I am trying to remind myself that I have achieved so much in the past two years. I have put everything into my studies and I am passionate about my art work.

Its all subjective!

I have no more to say.

Summer Show Choice

It has been a difficult decision to choose one image for the  Summer Show at Plymouth College of Art.  I want it to be the right image. Every assignment that I have handed in, over the past two years of the Foundation Degree, have been the wrong choices! I was always told in my Feedback that I had better images in my journal that I should have used as my final images. I feel more pressure this time, the image is going to be exhibited with everyone else's and it has to look professional and photographically excellent. Can I achieve this ..... be positive ..... yes!


I have decided, since it is the end of our two years Foundation Degree, that I will have my image printed at theprintspace at a greater expense than if I had it printed at college. I am having it printed to
30ins x 30ins, Mounted on 3mm Foamex, and with an Acrylic Satin Seal. I hope I've chosen wisely.


All day procrastinating and thinking ... I made my final choice this evening. I felt that the whole story can be told in this image. The story  of ..... chasing the light, the spirit of home, finding something that was lost, being still, listening to the silence, the concepts of duality/opposites, and my intuitive response to memory and seemingly empty but ambiguously mysterious spaces.


This is the culmination of five months work, a book at .http://www.blurb.co.uk/books/3255189....and the image I have chosen for the Summer Show.

The Blinding Light and the Corner Cupboard

Neil Craver - Underwater Nude Photography

http://vimeo.com/neilcraver/omniphantasmic

End of an Academic Year ....

One of my favourite images from my Final Major Project "Silence"

The Corner Cupboard

Its hardly possible that another year has come to another end. There's only my BA year and then I will be thrust out into the world of employment again. So I'm going to make sure that I make the most of next year, as I feel I have this year.

The deadline for the Final Major Project was yesterday and the final hurdle, my presentation, at 9am this morning. I'm glad that mine was today and its not hanging over me. Its not that I was worried about it because I've worked on my project for five months, and the presentation is a synopsis of the "journey." But some of the students wont have their presentations until next Thursday/Friday and I'm happy that mine is done.

Light Knocking at the Front Door

I don't have to be in college again until the 6th June; we have a meeting to discuss the BA year, and our Summer Show, which we will need to prepare and organise, for the end of June. I'm not sure how many students will be leaving this year, I think that a large percentage of us are carrying on to achieve the BA. There will be a dissertation to write next year, that's going to be a challenge!

But first to enjoy the end of this Degree year. Its been a good year, I feel that I have achieved far more than I expected of myself. I am more confident about my work and no longer afraid that my work isn't good enough. I am developing a style that I enjoy, and my photographic skills have really improved. I realised that I am now able to "break the rules" of photography without realising that I'm doing it, and producing some good work .... even if I do say so myself!

The important aspect for me is that I have found my passion or at least, a passion. I love being out with my camera, I enjoy the process of using film, I love being creative, and I love learning about contextualising my work and making better pictures. Being a student, returning to education, has been the most enjoyable and happiest time in my life.

I would like to take my education further and study for an MA after the BA next year. But this depends of finances and circumstances. And I think I should take one step at a time!

 I have been thinking about what I will do for the summer months.  I don't want to lost my momentum and stop working on my projects. I need a new idea now. But I think first I will take a break and just enjoy the sunshine and the freedom from deadlines.

Penelope Davies Photography

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