Coleton Fishacre 2014

Recently went back to Coleton Fishacre with my support worker. Whilst we were there I took some photos in the garden and there were many different colours and flowers, plants, trees and bamboo. Also we went into the house and had a look around and it was lovely to see each room again. My support worker liked the house and the gardens and when we were in one of the rooms, which you can handle and try on clothes, hats and shoes. I didn't try any of those on, but my support worker did and she look fabulous in one of the fur coats!

Cornwall 2014

At the end of may 2014 my mum, sister and myself went to a cottage that we rented out for a week. It wasn't far away from the village of Sennen and Lands End, also our cottage was next to a farm that had  cows. We visited Lands End, Sennen Cove, St. Ives, Tate St. Ives, St Michael's Mount and Minack Theatre. We were lucky to have nice weather whilst being in Cornwall, which made us feel relaxed and refreshed.    

Effects

I thought it would interesting to describe what different effects that can be either used in adobe photoshop or other programmes.  So for example in photoshop you can do the following:

• Filters : Artstic, Blur, Brush Strokes, Distort, Sketch and Stylise 
• Layer: Duplicate layer, New Fill Layer, Merge Down, Merge Visible and Flatten Image 
• Image: Rotate, Transform, Crop and Resize
• Select: Invert, Deselect and Reselect
• Enhance: Auto Levels, Auto Contrast and Auto Sharpen
•  Edit: Undo Deselect, Revert and Define Pattern
• File: The usual things

   

Icicles

Icicles at Treloars

I took this photograph whilst I was at Treloar college and I was living in a house called Gloucester. The night before it had completely snowed over and the snow left lovely icicles and it had made it hard for staff to get to college to teach the students at college. My friend also took photographs of the beautiful snow outside she walked over to one of the trees outside our house, which was covered snow and I thought it would lovely to take photographs. I also felt that these icicles looked amazing, beautiful and perfect for photographs.

Runner Up Image

Roses and Daggers

This image is of roses with kitchen knife to replace the daggers due to I couldn't find any. I got the inspiration from an artist called Magritte who was a surrealist and it got me into surrealism, which I did at college. He had done a surrealist image of a rose and dagger that gave me an idea to do my own version of it and it took a while to produce. I took photographs of roses when I went to Coleton Fishacre and then back at college I used a light box. So my tutor came up with the idea of using kitchen knifes to replace the dagger. After I did all of this I used photoshop to make this image look surreal and then a few months later the City and Gulids photography competition came up I decided to use this image and also I had to put a description with it. A few weeks went by and then I got the news that my image was a runner up and it was going to be printed and put up in a London gallery for people to go and see and enjoy.

Before the Knifes 

Magritte a amazing Surrealist

More of my favourite images!

Coleton Fishacre 2012
This Beautiful image of a Geranium in full bloom was taken by myself on a summers day when I visited the gardens with my grandma. We visited different parts of the house and my favourite room in the house was Lady Dorothy's bedroom because it had a view of the gardens and in the distance was the sea. I always enjoy coming to visit here especially in the summer months due to the beautiful colours of the flowers/shrubs in the gardens.











Treloar Past Manipulated Photograph
I spend three years at this boarding college, which was for physically disabled students. I lived in a residential house called Gloucester for two and half years and I spend the other half and my final year in Brewer house. I had my own bedroom and I studied photography, which I have gained a lot of experience from now. I used photoshop to create this photograph.





Orlando Florida 2012
I took this photograph of the castle at night because in the day time it was hard to see it. However at night the lights that cover the castle turn on, which makes it stand out and it looked amazing at night because you could see the difference against the dark background. Myself, my sister and my mum ate out because they also had a mini fireworks display before and after turning the lights on and
I felt that this would be a good photograph and a nice memory to have of the castle.  

A Sample of my work!

Photogram of a Peacock Feather
This photograph is a peacock feather, which also used in this photogram. I found a peacock feather and placed it down on white grade 3 photo paper and then exposed it for a few seconds. After that I developed it and put it through a chemical process. When I had taken it through that process the paper had turned black and the feather came out white!

Sharpham Estate Photograph

I took this photograph when I had finished at Sharpham Estate I had done a photo shoot there for the people that work there. Myself and my support worker thought that this area view would be a wonderful photograph. We saw this river on our way into Sharpham house, which is on Sharpham Estate.



Darcy Photo Shoot

This image of Darcy the dog, which I took photos of back in April 2012 and it was a beautiful day and myself, Janice and Tony his owners went for a walk first on a beach and then in their local forest. I was asked to take photos of Darcy because they wanted to make a calendar for their daughter who owned him before they did and he was very good and well behaved as you can see in this image.


Dartington 2013
This lovely image of different colour flowers that I took when myself and my support worker went for a visit to Dartington Hall. I saw these beautiful flowers and couldn't wait to take photographs of them, as the colours show up well as you can see in this image, especially when you look at the strong yellow next to the white flower in this image.