Like many people, I like to take photographs. There are many reasons to take them; to illustrate a point, a quick share over Wassap to ask an opinion on whether to buy skirt A or skirt B perhaps? But most often I would suggest, we take photographs to capture a moment. For me, this is definitely the main reason why I take them; as a way of holding on to something. It doesn’t work of course; people and places change all the time, but a photograph is more than just the image it is a way of accessing feelings and memories. This is what I focused on for the first EYV assignment. Having recently moved an hour and a half drive from the place I had called home for over 20 years this caused a fair bit of anxiety. I had lost my emotional anchors to one place and had not really gained any to my new ones.
Photography session 1. 23-01-2020
I have had to borrow a camera for this course and being unfamiliar with it I made a good number of mistakes. I was unsure what to photograph so I opted for places I went to on a fairly regular basis and one of those is my local cinema where I go more often for coffee or lunch. I left the camera on auto and found that lack of control over what bit I wanted to focus on gave frustrating results.
Cinema 1 
Cinema 2
Although I liked the focus in Cinema 1, I don’t think I framed this well, needed to get down a bit lower. However, in Cinema 2 I had wanted the focus to be the tree and building towards the back.
Katies Photographic Journey 