This week's experience of Streetlight Photography was characterised by the random climbing of monuments and sea front furniture. A strange practice but all in aid of providing us with interesting pictures of ourselves for the future catalogue of our work that will be published with the exhibition. Nerve racking stuff that it is only a few weeks away. Over enthusiastic climbing lead to an incident with bird droppings and black jeans I would care to forget.
Lydia made an interesting point, that photographer's rarely take pictures of themselves, as she shyly tried to back away from my photographic advances (no innuendo there).
Returning to base camp, we shared the pictures from last week, and attempted to place them into a series. This time it was my pictures and which turned out very random and spontaneous. My bike journey was all that we really could pull out of the mixture of pictures of Gunwhalf and the Museum. Other sets included a great photo series on the journey to Streetlight and some one's house party (only one person wasn't drunk) and Lydia produced some excellently well composed photographs which were the envy of the group.
The evening ended a little abruptly with the 'experts' running out of things to talk about towards the end. When asked about what I might pursue next in order to produce the sort after photographic series, I would say I drew a blank. I never realised how little I knew about Portsmouth, or even about photography. There is a lot more to it that just pointing a camera, and I am hoping that I will be up to speed by next week, when we all receive our final cameras.
Fingers crossed!!!
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