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Lately My Photography Practice Has Turned to Garbage

Since beginning my degree course with the OCA #werareoca I decided that I would shoot everything within my home area of Blantyre. In fact I have only used images from within 2 miles of my home address all shot while walking with my camera and tripod (photowalks). My most recent assignment was a development of…

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Back in Academia it would seem

In September 2020 I decided to start a part-time distance learning bachelor of arts degree in photography with the Open College of The Arts.  The first assignment was ‘My Square Mile’ which was based around the Welsh concept of ‘Y Filltir Sgwar’ referring to the place to which you feel that you belong. I have…

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Long exposure colour photograph of a waterfall on the River Calder at Blantyre

It’s All About Me

The Final 12: It’s All About Me. In May I got an email from my college tutor saying that he’d just been notified that the submission date for evidence supporting our projects had been brought forward by almost 2 weeks.  The project submission was originally to be in the A3 portfolio books we’d been given….

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Isolation Vs Solitude

Solitude To me solitude is the positive side of being alone. I love walking, particularly in the hills in Scotland and the Peak District in the North of England. It was this love of walking and nature in general that led me to take up landscape photography after initially dabbling with motorsport photography as a…

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Post 2 – The Halfway Point

Post 2 – The Half-way Point – A Little Less Isolated After my first blog post I was trying to work out how to approach the other parents that I regularly see at the various groups and classes my daughters attend.  My opportunity arose as a result thanks to a happy coincidence when ‘Grace and…

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colour photograph of a man standing in front of a derelict building, back lit by the low winter sun

Welcome to PhotoKiain.com

Hi, welcome to my new blog for my personal photography projects. I am in the process of rebuild this website from scratch so please bear with me while I (slowly) add words and images. The first of these are the ‘proof of concept’ shots I have made for my college project: ‘Isolation’ By way of…

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  • Lately My Photography Practice Has Turned to Garbage
  • Back in Academia it would seem
  • It’s All About Me
  • Isolation Vs Solitude
  • Post 2 – The Halfway Point

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