Learning photography during the Coronavirus Lockdown.

My third year of doing photography in the autumn.

Spring 2019

This is a review of the work I have conducted over the last three months: March 2019, April 2019, May 2019; learning the art of photography in the Spring.

As with my review of Winter 2018 /19, I’m now in a position to compare the work produced in this period with that of a year previously.  First observations comparing my top 10 images from the last 3 months from those of a year ago:

• 3 of the images use either intentional camera movement or multiple exposures to create a styalised look, none were in 2018
• 6 images were shot indoors (2018 all images were shot outside) – most were public locations including art galleries and railway stations
• General shift from landscape to street as the dominant genre.

The biggest influence on my recent images came as a result of a serendipitous meeting at the annual exhibition of the Cambridge Camera Club on 3rd May with Lynne Blount author of the image “Tribute to Pep Ventosa”.  Two of my top 10 images from the last 3 months are an attempt to create images in a Ventosa style.

Although only one image from the final 10 was shot with my new 100mm macro lens, “Stoke Common Spring Grasses“, I anticipate using this lens for found abstracts, in the style of Paul Mitchell who, despite my move away from landscapes, remains a big influence and a reminder of how far I have to go.

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