Welsh Coal Mining Memorials Project

I have been asked to do a mini personal project, my chosen topic for my project is welsh coal mining memorials. I chose this topic as I find history of wales and the valleys intresting. Before I took picture of mining memorials I thought I'd get an idea of what the miners whent through every day, so I went down to big pit in blinavon. Big pit is an operational mine and is one of only a few mines left in wales. They do a number of tours everyday where you can go underground and experience what it was like for the miners. Unfortunatley I wasn't allowed to take my camera underground as it is still an operational mine, but I still managed to get a few good shots.

 

 

 

The first few picture I took were of the lift shaft witch took you underground. This was a tall metal structure that was the key point of the mine.



The Red Zone



The image above was one of my favourite picture I took during that day. we just come out from the mine and walked past this. The red buckets and the red painted wood cort my eye.

Aperture Magazine Anthology Book Review

Aperture Magazine Anthology - The Minor White Years 1952-1976, Petter. C. Bunnell, 2012

The book Aperture Magazine Anthology shows a selection of contributions from the first twenty-five years of the magazines life under the editorship of the magazine cofounder Minor White. the book tries to answer the most fundamental questions about the medium for example "how does one read a photography" and "what is the relationship between text and the image" ect. 

The book starts of with a editors preface from Petter. C. Bunnell. An editors preface is an introduction to a book or other literal work written by the works author. Petter. C. Bunnell used the preface to explain the life and work of Minor White and Explained a little of the magazines history.

The book is split up into the different issues of the magazine starting of with issue one. The book contains a range of work from Minor Whites own picture to pictures to work by Imogen Cunningham and Ansel Adams. Petter. C. Bunnell took sections and pictures from each issue and explained them in depth.

My Second Outdoor Photography Session

For my second outing, I tried to experement a little bit. I took a range of close up's and some long distants shots to see what they would look like.





My First Outdoor Lesson

This was the first lesson I had the chance to use my camra, I spent most of the lesson learning the bassics of my camera and just geing used to taking pictures.

Second Photography Studio Session

For my second photography studio session I decided to bring in some bracelets, I brought a range of bracelets from woden to rope. The aim of this studio session was to try and create shadow and form with our objects.

 

 

 

For my first few pictures I focused on the wooden bracelets, I feel like I got a strong texture, you can see the different shades of red and brown in the wood. You also get an element of form from the way the light hit the bracelets.

The next few image I took were of rope bracelets. You get a strong feel of texture looking at these pictures as you can see strands of the rope when you look close up to the image
 

  

I then put all the bracelets together, you get a strong range of form from the bundle of bracelets.

 

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