This week.

This past week or so I have been keeping myself rather busy. Mum has been really ill which hasn't been easy , so obviously a lot of my time has been taken up caring for her.

I have managed to find time to do a few things however. I came across an article online "The New Color: The Return of Black and White" by Charlotte Cotton. To be honest I found it quite hard to follow, I'm not sure whether that was because of the writing style or whether my concentration was the issue. I did find some parts of the article quite interesting where Cotton talks about areas she feels there is a place for black and white photography such as when she says "black and white photography is still a key access route into seeing and thinking photographically". I think this is a too a certain extent true but from my experience colour photography came first, and following on from gaining an understanding of colour you then should move on to black and white and anticipating how scenes will appear.

This led me on nicely to shooting the assignment. I chose to photograph at Colne Valley Railway and so I have been trying to find the time to write up the assignment. I hope to have it with my tutor within the week and then crack on with the next set of projects.

Tomorrow night I am off to Fashion Fusion which is a fashion show. I am writing an article for a local magazine and hope to provide the images for it myself. I shall be posting any photos I take as I think that it all adds to gaining further experience. A couple of days after this I shall be in London at a press preview for High Street Fashion Week as I am an official blogger for them and will try and make the most of the opportunity in London to do a bit of photography. The same goes for in a weeks time when HSFW is actually on.