Photo Shoot.

Last night I went to a photography course for young unemployed people. A spokesperson explain about the Prince's Trust, however I was a little late to catch the first part of the talk. It was important to know that the trust offers loans for community engagement. Steve one of the organisers suggested that if we kept together as a group of young people, we could go on and perhaps ask them for funding for some of our own projects, as long as they were of benefit to the community.

After the talk, we took the cameras and went wondering to the sea front to try and capture the common and front in the dying light. The importance of perspective when taking pictures. No two people can take the same photo. We would all shoot the same thing differently. It was a perfect evening for wondering and trying to find a way of photographing familiar sights that made them look new and different, with sensitivity to the environment. Not as easy as it sounds.


My best effort might have been the downward shot of the arrow flower bed leading up to the fountains by Southsea Castle. I cannot remember the pictures taken by others in detail, but when we gathered around the computer there were some impressive contributions by young people very new to photography.

I might add we had good guidance from the organisers. At the end we were sent away with our own camera to create our own photographic story of an aspect of our lives. I haven't decided what I want to do just yet.