Moroccan Set

In July, I travelled around the beautiful country of Morocco, rich in culture and with an incredible mix of natural beauty with mountains, desert, coasts and forests. I would recommend the trip to anyone with a passion for experience, the route I took allowed for exploration of a lot of the country but I will definitely be returning to cover thoses little secret I found on the way. If you are planning to go to Morocco, get in contact and I can tell you some great riads, hostels, place of interest, friends and routes I found useful during my stay.... Lonely Planet is always a great start though.

P-p-pick up a bargin

Vivitar 35EE - £3.00 from The Rabbit Run Car Boot Sale, West Midlands
I love rummaging at carboot sales, you may have seen my collection of hand-tinted postcards I posted not long ago, and now I have picked up this 35mm. It's quite similar asthetically to the Olympus Trip 35 I own and love. I hope I enjoy it as much as I have the Olympus.

The Vivitar 35EE is a 35mm rangefinder camera with automatic exposure, rebadged to Vivitar specifications from the Cosina Cosina 35 in the mid-1970s. 

• Lens: 38mm f/2.8 (4 elements, 3 groups) with 46mm filter thread.
• Focusing Range: 0.9m to infinity.
• Auto-exposure via CdS "electric eye" above lens.
• Shutter speeds: 1/30-1/650s, plus B (only at f/2.8).
• Film speed: ISO 25-400.
• Viewfinder info: Brightline frame, parallax correction marks, overexposure and underexposure warning zones, with indicated approximate combined shutter speed and aperture (f/2.8 to f/14) selection shown by needle.

CA 90401

I just got back from my travels around New Zealand, stopped off in Santa Monica, LA on the way. The most beautiful sunsets I've ever seen!

Sketch Up City

Alfred Jarry

Theatre of the Absurd.

Iconic Photograph

Brief: Tonight, Cat, I'm going to be.....

12th October - 11th December

You are to choose an iconic photo which you are to re-create in the photographic studio. There are two musts: The reference must be evident; and you must be identifiable. It must be emphasised that this is not an exercise in Photoshop, but an exercise in photography and understanding the photographic studio.

Learning outcome : Use a variety of image making techniques and associated media.

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Different people have different passions, influences and backgrounds, and for this project I enjoyed seeing what everyone considered an iconic image.

I first came up with a few 'generic' iconic images which many people came up with. But then when I started looking into iconic images more I discovered you could have iconic in many ways. Public iconic, social icon, musical icon, artistic icon.

Here are a few of the photos which I considered recreated:

George Hoyningen

Lee Miller wearing yraid sailor cloth overalls

Marilyn Monroe

David Bailey

The Kray Twins

I really liked all the images which are above, and I particularly like the idea of being both of the characters in The Kray Twins. After deciding on the friday night before my shoot I was going to do this image, I was in WHSmiths and saw the image of Bradey and Hindley on a book cover. Straight away I really thought this would be a great image for myself to do. It is very iconic, meant I could be both characters, and was a challenge.

Bradey & Hindley