Ni vu, Ni connu (not seen, not known)

So this was a mini project at college. The idea was to become a flaneur (a stalker of the street). It was an interesting experience, as i have never done this before. I followed a woman and then a man but found him more interesting.
I had many mixed feelings while doing this: Intuding, invasive, felt lke I was doing something wrong, manipulative (were they going somewhere or doing something to see if i was following them if they knew). I also noticed how different people are paranoid about me following them even if I weren't. What causes this paranioa?
So this is my final edit, a story if you like. It is eye-opening how I can change the story, manipulate what the man was doing even though he wasn't even doing something of the sort.

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An anonymous man sits having coffee waiting for something.

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He gets up and walks somewhere.

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He picks something up at the post office.

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He delivers the item to another man. The man has the item in his hand. The first man looks ahead to stay "cool".

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 He puts something that he got from the other man in his pocket as he walks to the next place.

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He drops off the item he got from the other man and gives it to another man at the till of a shop.

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He then reports back to the man and waits for what they are doing to take into action.

These pictures were taking while walking, therefore didn't get the focusing perfect. I also used the machine developer for the first time instead of wet develping. It ruined my negatives and therefore wont use it again. But both of these inperfections create a spy-like effect, detective peter to the rescue. lol...

Night skating at Saffron Walden

A few photos from Night Skating at Sffron Walden. First time doing this so was interesting but feel I got a few good shots.

 I Like the way I got up close to Matt. I think that the shadow and the skaters in the background make it look as I would say sick..

 This picture is one of my favourites. The light in the background adds to the effect.

All of these pictures came out really good. Still have a lot to learn. I like the way we can capture the moment, capture the skater in the air. I had fun doing this and can see how different skaters have different styles of doing it. The two here, the one is compact and the other is spread out..

So this week at college I have been working with SLR's for the first time. I used old ones to snap away and develop them. It was really interesting how to learn to develop. I think that using a manual SLR really taught me alot about using the camera correctly. Here are some pics I took in Colchester and Braintree.

Busker in a tunnel in Colchester. I like the angle I got here. The film snapped while realing it in so abit got exposed. But I feel this adds a really nice effect.

Was actually taking a picture of the space behind him and he walked in so snapped him, with concent of course.. Really like his facial features and the way he is poised..
I like the way both these pictures are on the right side of the shot. I also like the idea of space inside their head, like just a picture of a face can tell or at least lead to what has gone on in their life.

At first I wanted to get a pictureof the street with the buildings. The people walked into the scene. It somehow reminds me of abbey road. I think it shows a sence of movement.

This was shot from a high rise car park. The man walking alone is framed by the surroundings around him.

This photo was created by accident. I exposed it for 5 seconds one way and then when I took it out I realised it haddent been in for long enough so put it back in for another 10 seconds. When I developed it I realised I had put it back in the wrong way around. I like the way it looks like reflections on the ground. I might play with this more in the future.

The roof of the highrise car park. I like the way there is a large place and not being used.

This last image is all of them arranged in a particular way. Just a quick positioning. I feel that the centre two men are the focus.
I really enjoyed developing these photos.

Light, natural and commercial

Sunset Outside my house.. Played with satuation abit. Tried to get a sense of reflection (as if reflecting off water) by using the roof of my car. The sky during this time of year creates such beautiful sunsets.

Was just messing around on the way to watch my girlfriend horse ride. I quite like the way my hand moved, due to the movement of my car.

I had to get down low to snap some shots, the horse was getting scared as he didn't know what I was holding or doing. I love the sky, the bold red represents power, same as the horse.

I am pleased I got this shot, shows horses really can fly..

First time playing with writing with lights. I learnt that one needs to draw the image upside down to come up.. I was in trouble with my girl as we were driving in seperate cars and I cut her off resulting on us going down a road with loads of traffic. I drew this to say I was sorry.

Autumn sunset

This photo was taken while driving, not too safe but needed to be done. I liked the line drawn by the bridge in the centre and wanted to repeat this.

These three pictures I love, reflections fasinate me, I had to bundubash (a south african term to state when someone bashes through bushes) to get these shots.

This photo could of been taken anywhere in the world. The tree could suggest an element of Africa, think the hang glider adds an interesting factor to the photo.