The Bronze Man. 31st October.

Today has been full of essay writing! I do the silly thing where I intend to get everything written at the start of a week, but I leave it right until the end to do it! Anyway... back to today's photograph! I was asked to photograph this Bronze Statue, so I photographed it today, experimented with using a white backdrop whilst keeping a lot of contrast within the photograph, quite a lot harder than I thought it was... but it was a good learning curve! I am starting to really appreciate product/still life photography and I am considering buying some studio equipment (the equipment I am currently using is on loan). 

In other news I'm off to London tomorrow (again!) I will be working on an architecture brief, but I may be able to get some more photography on the Occupy London Stock Exchange Protest... depending on time etc... I have also started to become interested in the Critical Mass movement, basically once a month a group of people meet together in cities around the world and travel around the city on self-propelled transport. 

The little Bible. 30th October.

This little bible was in my house ontop of my piano.... I thought it would make an interesting photograph. I still have a macro lens at the moment too, so I used that for this photo... might have to do a few more things with it as it is an amazing little lens (Canon 60mm f2.8 USM). In other news I am super tired today as I had a busy morning at church doing kids work :) And I have been essay writing all afternoon! I am still wanting to be able to develop the roll of film in my SLR at the moment, it's 36 exposures and I'm on about 25! I do no want to waste a single shot though... maybe I'm being a bit too picky at the moment though!

Photojournalism: Occupy The London Stock Exchange.

I visited the Anti-Capitalism protest (also known as Occupy London Stock Exchange/OccupyLSX) outside St.Pauls in London on the 28th of October. My main aim was to document what was going on whilst staying impartial to the views of the protesters and their opposition. I found the protest as a very peaceful site with a really big feel of community, which hopefully comes through in the series of photographs.

The full series can be found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ruthjonesphotography/sets/72157627878315379/with/6291477032/

Toys at War #2. 29th October.

Today I did some more work on my Toy Soldier project, one of the shoots I did was to impersonate a photograph by Matthew Naythons, I worked for a while over this shot trying to get the lighting and angle right. I only have a few more scenes to shoot and then I just need to start sorting out the photographs and deciding which shall be final for the series!

The Anti-Capitalist Rhino. 28th October.

As I said yesterday, I went to London today to follow up a brief and a couple of projects. One of my projects was to document a little bit of the Anti-Capitalism protest outside St.Pauls Cathedral. There is a line of metal barriers that have been put up by St.Pauls for the protesters to put messages on and this little message stood out to me, mainly because of it's creativity! I will work on the photographs in the near future and when they're up I will give you all a link to view them!

The Leopard. 27th October.

I thought I would do a little macro shot today of a leopard teddy I have! I have no real reason for this photo except the fact that I did not really feel that inspired today as I've not been feeling that well! But tomorrow's photo should be a gooden as I'm off to London! I'm going to be doing some Architectural photography with Lloyds of London, some street portraits, and I'm wanting to do a little personal project about the Anti-Capitalim Protest in london... so busy busy busy day tomorrow! Early night it is!

Capturing Time. 26th October.

Sometimes I just take pictures because I see something I like. It may not lead onto the most amazing photograph or be useful for anything, but it's me capturing a moment of time which I like. Today just for a few minutes the sky was absolutely amazing, full of colour and drama. I liked it, so I photographed it and here is is!