Happy Halloween!

So it's halloween today so I thought i'd do a seasonal post :) I don't generally go in for halloween but this year I decided to be a bit creative and carve my own girly pumpkin! I've named her Ezmarelda! I photographed her in the dark last night, using long exposures to capture her glow. I am really pleased with the way they came out so here they are :) 

Cardiff Castle

This weekend I've been in Cardiff visiting my boyfriend who is studying there. It was so lovely to see him. There were lots of photo opportunities especially when we went to Cardiff Castle which is a really lovely place. The keep itself is very calm and quiet, it has a real sense of history. And the adjacent Victorian building is luxurious and grand. It also has some very bizarre gargoyles and decoration on the walls! Here are a few photos from the day :)

The Castle Keep

The Library

A Collection of Kipling

Some beautiful old books

A rather bizarre wall decoration!

Sculpture at The Eden Project

Yesterday I went to the Eden Project with my dad. We went quite late in the afternoon so it was lovely and quiet, we were in the Rainforest Biome practically on our own which was amazing! Anyway here are a few photographs that I took of the brilliant sculpture in the Mediterranean Biome. I photograph them every time i'm there, I love them!

42 Keys

My latest college project is to make a book as I think I have already mentioned in a previous blog. I had chosen to photograph the roundhouse and team but unfortunately because we've finished for the winter I am unable to get back to site and with no-one to photograph it seemed a bit silly! So I've moved on to another idea. At home we have a bag of keys, 42 in fact, all of which were found in a drawer at my Grandpa's house whilst he was suffering from dementia. They are a confusing jumble of old and new, some are duplicates, some are single keys, some are padlock keys and some are door keys. I find them very interesting as a collection and strangely beautiful. They remind me of that stage of Grandpa's illness and his confused state but also a museum collection that I want to archive. Here are a few of my images, these are not finals as I am going to reshoot but you get the idea :) 

My Bedroom

Here are a few photographs of bits and pieces in my bedroom. I wanted to create something quite arty and beautiful experimenting with manual focus and depth of field. This is what I came up with... and I really like them! :)

 

Boats at Malpas

A couple of weeks ago I went to Malpas just outside Truro to photograph the boats for my uni summer project. I went thinking I would take some literal photographs, but instead I became obsessed with the abstract shapes that I could create from close ups. I liked the shape that the hulls made in the water and the shallow depth of field that I could create with the close up shots. Here are a few of my favourites :)

Newquay

Today we went on a uni trip to Newquay to photograph people, the sea, and other things. The naff weather made everything quite dull and grey so after a little  bit of editing here are some of my images from today :)

Travelling With Salmon

In the summer I was asked to shoot during the filming of an indie movie by the London Film School. I was able to make it to two locations during the shooting of 'Travelling With Salmon', the Penmere Fish and Chip Shop in Falmouth and the beautiful Holywell Bay. It was such a great opportunity and one I was very happy to take up as they will hopefully be using some of my images in the promotion of the film. The team were very pleased to inform me this week that they have been awarded a distinction! Yay! and not only that but the only one to be awarded to a graduate film this year!! At the moment they are just finishing cutting the trailer for film festivals. Here's a photo from each shoot :)

One Misty Morning

The other day I woke up to the most perfect Autumn morning. So I went outside into the garden with my camera and took some photographs of the beautiful cobwebs :)

Saveock Mill

Every Sunday for nearly 2 years now I have been assuming my alter ego and venturing out to Saveock Mill nr. Chacewater. On Sundays I become Lottie the archaeologist! For the last 2 years i've been a member of the Saveock Archaeological society and we've been building a reconstruction of an Bronze Age roundhouse. It's one of the best things I have ever been involved in. I was thinking of using it as the subject for a photo book we've been asked to make at uni, so today I combined my photography with my archaeology to produce some portraits of the team. We had a BBQ in the hearth, sausages and warm homemade bread, and enjoyed the space that we had created :) it was brilliant! Unfortunately today also turns out to be the last Saveock session for a while, i'm going to miss it :( Here are two of my favourite photographs from today...

Jacqui Wood, Experimental Archaeologist 

Inside the Roundhouse 

What Ho!

Hi there, my name is Lottie and i'm a photographer, well at least it's what I do and what I hope to be :) I'm currently studying photography at uni so a lot of stuff posted will be taken for projects etc but i'm also going to slip in casual day to day photographs and the odd daft 'i just had to take a photo of that!' type images too. By making this blog I hope to learn a bit about who I am as a photographer as well as just getting my stuff out there. I've been asked so many times now 'so do you have any work online that I can see?' and i'm a bit tired of replying 'no not yet..'; so here it is! :)