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These images are just attempts from my  bedroom window at getting something more aesthetically pleasing. However I don't feel this has worked at all and I need to go out and take some proper images with a better subject matter. 

More photos....

Some more photos...this time objects that represent my world. In these photos there are things that represent my day to day life and my hobbies.

These next couple of photos represent my world with one of the people in it. These are objects that remind me of him or us.

Time to actually get some development up...

After the first weeks work I decided to go off on another idea just to quickly experiment and see whether it could work for this project.

In the first week I looked just at my world and the people in it. I started off this week looking at my world and places I go. In this blog I'm going to post some of these photos which represent my world and the places I go. 

The first set are from around Nottingham. Things, places and people around the city centre that have captured my eye. 

These next photos are from the car journey from my halls in Nottingham to my boyfriends house. This is a journey I do every week and these are some photos of things I pass which catch my eye. 

Bad photos...

As requested here are some of my "bad" photographs....

This is an obvious bad photograph there is lack of a decent composition, no focus and the colour of the overall photograph is too bland and there is an obvious lack of contrast. 

This photograph is one from a whole series I took on journeys. I feel that it really doesn't work as an image. Firstly I feel that the van outside the window takes up too much of the frame and the fact that it is blurred doesn't make it look any better or any more successful. The use of the window as a frame does work in the other images I took but in this particular image the poster above the top of the window is too intrusive and is too distracting in my opinion.

This image was an attempt to show two lives entwined together. I was attempting to show this through two sets of different books on two different topics but I feel this has very obviously failed. The second set of books is too much out of the composition and out of focus and the overall angle of the photograph doesn't work and the image just looks too boring.

Some initial photos....

So I'm finally getting round to posting some relevant pictures to this project that I've taken. 

In these first couple of photos I have simply captured the things left behind of a weekend when my boyfriend goes home. 

I'm not entirely sure I like these photographs as they've just been quickly thrown together although I do like the idea behind these photos of using objects set up to represent something.

I also looked at my family being part of my world. Unfortunately they aren't up here with me and I don't see them very often but there are things that have been given to me by my parents which I have in my room. These next few photos are of these objects. 

Again these are very rough initial photographs just attempting to try out ideas.  I kind of think these ideas work, the first two, the set up still life of objects given to me by my parents works a lot better than the first 2 images I have posted in this blog. The last image I do really like how the card form my mum just sits in the middle of all my photos and stuff  but I don't think I should have used flash as the reflection of the light in the photo is horrible. 

These are my very initial shots though so there are developments to come even though my idea jumps around a little. 

My World....

My World...The title for this project I've been given.

So what is "My World"? 

To me my world is everyone and everything in it. From the people in my life, the ones I see day to day or the ones I see rarely, to the places I go and the things I do. 

The place where I spend most of my time is in my Uni room which at the moment is where my world revolves around. I eat, sleep, work and socialise in there. I also spend a lot of time nowadays going back to my boyfriends house which has turned into a home from home from home.  

I miss my world back down South at home and its sad that I only return there once every 3 months or so but thats my old world in my eyes. It's where I grew up and where I used to belong, I say used to belong because I never spend anytime there anymore and always feels odd to be back there. 

Other places which are part of my World are the cities London and Nottingham, I spend a very different amount of time in each but that is simply because of where I live now. 

The people in my world no matter where I am play the most important roles to me. 

My family, although I don't see them that much anymore, because of living a good 3 hour or so drive away, are always a phone call away no matter what time of day I know they will always pick up, they also regularly come up and visit and spend the day with me, except my brother. My mum's coming up again in a weeks time so I'm very much looking forward to catching up with her and spending some quality time with just her, although she's my mum she pretty much is my twin and I know I can talk to her about anything. With my Dad I think I've always been and always will be his little girl. He doesn't say or do much to make you think that but talking to my Mum I know hes very over protective of me and when I was growing up I could always just talk away for hours to him about absolutely nothing. My brother, well I never know how to talk about him. He's always been in my life, always there, always around but at the same time he hasn't. We've never really got on all that great as kids which has very much so affected our relationship now. I don't talk to him when I'm up at Uni except for the rare text conversation or facebook comment and when I'm home we still don't really talk although we're in the same house and see each other all day everyday. 

The last person that plays an important part in my world is Ross, my boyfriend. I only met him during freshers week here at Uni and we've had our fair share of ups and downs as any couple does. But, as sad and as dopey as it sounds I genuinely can't imagine life without him. The more I'm around him the more comfortable I become and the more I accept myself, I never used to feel good about myself and how I looked, and now I just feel comfortable around him even when I'm having one of those bad days where you just can't be bothered to do your hair after you get out the shower so you look like you're trying to set a new trend of afro frizz hair, you don't want to get out of your pyjamas, and make up is a no go so every flaw is showing. During the week at Uni he literally lives with me in my room, so at weekends when he goes home my room just seems so empty and lifeless with no company. When he leaves I realise how much I love him cluttering up my room with his endless carrier bags filled with his stuff, staying up until stupid times in the morning watching films, listening to music or him playing his games, and just all the little things we have between us which makes us simply us :). I won't bore you too much as I know I could probably write a whole blog on just him but to me he's the best company and knows me too well and what we have I simply wouldn't want it any other way. 

So when I really think about it my world pretty much starts with my boyfriend as he's the one person always there and I spend all my time with him or talking to him. The rest of my world changes from day to day but always involves the places or people I have talked about. So I'm not sure how I'm going to capture these people and places but this is what I want to base my project on, I think?!?!

My photographs inspired by others....

After stating which 5 photographers were the most influential to me and my work I am now going to post some of my photographs which I have taken in response to these images.

Corfu Town Centre

Brighton Bandstand

Canal D'Amour, Corfu

Brighton Seafront

Sidari Town, Corfu

Brighton Seafront

Brighton Town

Sidari Seafront, Corfu