Today I needed a day out to myself. The past few weeks have been filled with dissertation writing, and preparations for the External Exhibition. All very stressful and time consuming. As well as being focused on those two projects, there were, of course, still lectures, meetings, seminars and crits to attend. Its been pretty full on. I was feeling exhausted.
I decided that today I would have a relaxing morning listening to music, catching up with emails to friends and having a lie in! This afternoon I drove over to Pembrey Country Park and Cefn Sidan Sands for a whole afternoon of picture making. I did shoot some with my Diana for my personal project, but my main aim was to relax and use my 35mm Camera to explore Extravagance.
I am doing a small collaboration with a Fashion Student from Swansea Met. She has asked for volunteers to help her create a website where she will display 35mm film images. She has given me a brief, and that brief is to be creative with the word Extravagance and to depict it in any way I choose. She has taken the briefs from the Autumn/Winter 2013 collection of Fashion but is not telling us anything except the word itself.
I haven't yet decided what to photograph, I am going to make a word page of synonyms of extravagance, and in the meantime, like today, just use my intuition to photograph anything that I sense conveys extravagance.
I thoroughly enjoyed my afternoon, the sun was shinning, the wind was cold and fresh; I felt free and liberated from the past weeks of stress.
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