Roads

Think the roads are busy?

When M1 was opened there were 2.8 million car owners in Britian. Now there are 28 million.

Secret life of the motorway - BBC4

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How many?

I heard on the radio this morning that by 2050 there will be 9billion people living on planet earth. By 2075 there will be 9.5billion. 

How can there be this many people? It is unbelieveable.

I am doing my bit by adding no more people and not having children, as are a number of my friends. How will the earth survive/support that many people? People are already considering engineering solutions to this massive problem to make sure there is enough food and food that is not being wasted; there is enough clean water; there is enough space and shelter and there is enough energy. They believe that current technologies can ensure that we can support 9billion people - but this scares me and I am grateful that I will not be around to see this happen.

*shudder*

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The Brief - Sen5es

Fujifilm competition brief is:

Sen5es

Capture what senses means to you, how do you see things? What alters your perception? Although photography is a visual medium - how does smell feel? What does noise look like?

Any of the five physical processes by which stimuli are received:
Sight - Hearing - Smell - Taste - Touch.

Deadline is:

28th February 2011.

Requirements:

Shooting on Fujifilm is mandatory however images need to be sent as jpegs to be judged and no wider than 500 pixels.

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The Brief - D&AD

The D&AD competition brief is:

"Capture the essence, energy and varied perspectives of humanity in a series of photographs that are sympathetic to Bloombergs new corporate identity".

Judges are:

Terry Jones, editor in chief, i-D magazine

Dimitri Daniloff, photographer

Michael Schnabel, photographer

Julia Fullerton-Batten, photographer

Martin Brent, photographer

Simon Morris, head of art at Delaney Lund Knox Warren

Deadline is:
31st January 2011

(or 4th March - need to find out which it is)

Requirements:
Between 4 and 8 images uploaded to the website by the deadline. Can use digital camera.

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Here we go...

... two three four

Good start to the New Year. Thankfully I feel better and am all ready and raring to go. The work I handed in on 15th December has been reviewed and I will be receiving feedback next week. I am looking forward to that as I need to know if I am hitting all the right buttons or not. I am a sixth of the way through the course and if this work is not correct then I can put it right for the remaining five sixths. I know my blog has been read so I am really interested in having a conversation about its content and whether it is truly 'reflective'.

Competitions

Have two competitions to enter with deadlines of end of January or February or early March - it is not clear. One for Fuji Film and the other for D&AD in connection with Bloomberg. Lots to read up on these.

Spent an hour or two in the afternoon navel gazing which was a very worthwhile exercise. Thinking through what my photography practice is, what inspires me, what I like to watch, visit, read and listen to. This all helped me understand what it is that I feel most comfortable with and what I enjoy. This also gave me ideas for the competitions.

After a talk about ideas, current work, the competition organisers and possible outcomes I had 40 mins out with a camera, before it got dark, to take some images to see where my thinking was going with the competitions.

I liked the whimsy of some the images I looked at this afternoon in connection with the FujiFilm competition. This is the image I captured with the low winter sun setting which I feel had that feeling of warmth and whimsy that I was after:



10th January 2011



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