ruined affair re-captured

I want to find some hidden gems.

Places unfound, untouched for a while, completely derelict.

I was inspired by a website sent to me by someone dear.

Most inspirational was this location; a derelict Russian submarine base in the Ukraine

I'm not sure who has done the photography here, as i haven't done my research yet [this is a bit of an un-detailed excitable post] What i loved about these images is the fact the location structure at hand, isn't ancient, nor was it ever made to be particularly beautiful. It isn't in ruins, but the history of this place makes these images incredibly eerie. I also have a bit of a strange relationship with the sea, it's natural force and power scares me, the way it can be so isolating and all consuming, so i find the idea of life that far off shore, bizarre and alien. This mixed with the context of Russian war, and the cold industrial aesthetic is just all out chilling [personally] but it's very much a feeling i enjoy, the fact a photograph can evoke that much emotion in me.

Thinking of my re-submission for my Elective, which will now be Digital Photography, i want to at least do something that i will enjoy, and it's been so long since i studied old dilapidated architecture.

So i've set about researching secret places in Leeds, that will be good for Photographing.

On my internet travels i came across these lovely images of the underground tunnel works that run through Leeds by a photographer named Johnathon Turner > www.johnathan-turner.com

It seems that i have little chance of actually getting anywhere near anything this good however it has inspired me to start adventuring, i'd like to not only consider old structures but newer one's too as they can allow for different aesthetics as well set up an array of concepts. It would be nice to be able to consider combining these structural images with portraiture, hmmm but we'll see. Still a bit rusty on the photography front to say the least, so one step at a time.

hummmmmmmm

I've begun to rekindle my love for photography as of late.

Such a love comes for all forms of photography however it is most loyally upheld with analog. I like streaks of developer, marks on negatives and really just all imperfections are beautiful!

I don't think photographs should necessarily be perfect, elements of imperfections create a sense of honesty and love for the image. The film has been touched, used, printed, and thus is authentic. No image will ever be the same.

Saying this i still like perfecting analog images during the developing process, or via digital enhancement, but only to a basic degree [digitally]

There is so much i haven't done yet with photography, in my recent project i touched on slide making. I want to attain older cameras and to grips with medium format.

It's rare to find the talent to actually take really good photographs in terms of technique, composition and knowing the science of the camera, as well as having a concept that can be well executed.

Skill cannot be learned, it's just there, however I want to learn all the basic ways ways to use a camera well, so i may take a decent photograph, thus being able to appreciate 'making' a photograph in itself, but with the whole process being so scientific i find this hard to get to grips with.

Anyway here is some thing that i like, i was surprised that i found such subject matter allurring as normally i am less attracted to portraits and nudes. These are rather fashion based but i love their coquetish nature, the vintage quality and the blue and red lighting. The artist in question being a a girl called Iris it seems, who i found hunting around bloggitys.

http://nonflowers.blogspot.com

Divine!

Mur

I don't know what's happened, i don't think it's so much that i have fallen out of love with art, more that i have fallen in love with the world at the peril of my own work.

I have been distracted my the finer things in life, such as food, romance, sex, warmth, friendship, seasonal change, travel, nightlife, the list goes on.

The course has, as of recent been a bit crap in my opinion, mainly down to the entire Enterprise module, and it's outstanding ability to clear me of all artistic passion.

This is one reason to hate consumerism, in the fact that by saying outloud 'i wish to be an artist' that means the government become frantic and desperate to make sure i do actually earn enough money to give them taxes, thus placing me in the most mind numbing module i have ever had placed infront of me.

If this wasn't bad enough the bloody thing was only worth 10 credits! But the tutors seemed to care more about this than the work of the practical module. And the cherry on the cake is your own head of department forgetting to give you a brief and upon realising, telling you it's ok because really you don't have to do that much for it anyway, while the head of enterprise insits you do stuff that isn't really necessery! ARGH.

All this being said, this is why i have ceased contact with blog. My mind has been else where and i decided to enjoy life for a bit without feeling guilty. Hopefully one day, many years from now this wil project in my work.

But for the first tim ein a while i spotted some things i found to be pretty spectacular.

Both of them rather surreal but completely different.