Images Over The Years

Hi,

Another post in the same day, crazy!

So I have just gone through a lot of my photographs I have taken over the last couple of years, and picked out my favourites.

Unfortunately there isn't that many of them! I would love for any of you who happen to read this to tell me what your favourites are. You never know I might even do a graph to show the results. Geek!

Thanks you,

K

Ulster Museum continued...

Here I am again.

So I woke up this morning and was greeted with a horrible rainy Tuesday morning, this put me in foul form as I wanted some more external shots of the museum.

I went up anyway, and after driving about for an eternity trying to find parking space (parking around that area is a nightmare) I parked for a limited time of an hour.

Inside the museum is all very clean, new and white. I am ashamed to say I didn't really check out many of the exhibits as I was there to look at the architecture. Im sure I looked a bit strange dandering about looking at the roof, taking the odd picture, with my film camera, my digital camera and my iphone!

When I have a project to do, I never really know how i'm going to capture the essence of my brief. I have one thought that leads onto another, and another and then I go and do something completely different.

The interior is fairly simplistic which of course is a great contrast to all the artefacts etc on show. So on that train of thought I went for some very clean basic photography, with perhaps the odd splash of colour..

Here's some examples.

So I am nowhere near done, as of course I need to get these down on film, trying not to rush into this and get a real essence of the building before moving on.

Later

Kaz

Ulster Museum (architecture)

So I got up reasonably early this morning to do practice shots for my next assignment.

I am working on an architecture theme which needs to be shot on colour transparency!

I have decided to go for the Ulster Museum as it's just about to re-open and I was hoping for some great architectural detail.

So off I went, pretty darn cold this morning, but nice and crisp with the suggestion of blue sky out there. Stopped off for a sneaky Starbucks on the way (needed change for parking, honest) I parked at the new Queens University library, which incidentally is a pretty great looking new building as well (perhaps my back up plan). I walked over to the museum but was slightly disappointed to see fencing all the way around it, it's not actually due to re-open until the 22nd, so I should have expected something like that. I did however managed to get a few abstract shots of the corners. But what it unexpectedly allowed me to do was get a real sense of the building.

I have been doing some art history work in college, which is extremely fascinating, and proving to help me a lot in my work. There is an early photographer called Frederick Evans, and something he said about his work has managed to stay with me. He tried to get a sense of the building of which he was about to photograph, if the building could speak what would it say, is it possible to capture the essence of this piece of architecture. This has helped me so much, as initially architecture was not something I was particularly fond of capturing.

So that being said, although I could take that many many pictures today, I did stand in front of the building for quite some time thinking about how the building made me feel and how I can transfer this later when I get a chance to get closer to the architectural detail.

Until I get the opportunity to get more shots, here's just the one to wet your appetite :)

Kaz