Time for another journal entry I think! I told myself that I was going to do this regularly, but I just get way too distracted by everything around me. So through my course this year, I really felt like I was starting to lose my self of style in my photography. I sort of felt like I really wasn't sure where I was going - as for assignments we were working to a brief and I felt like I was tied down and had no room to explore! After it is all said and done, I now admit it has been a great opportunity to try a number of different photographic genres in a short period of time; food, architecture, high key, low key, glassware, fashion, portraiture etc etc. However, I am only just starting to get my passion for photography back - something I thought I was loosing under the pressure and constraints of this year. My sailor pin-up shoot is probably the happiest I have been with a shoot all year, which is a great feeling! I'm starting to get back into the genres I really want to shoot, fashion & portraiture in their many shapes and forms. I am particularly in love with pin-up & alternative fashion, and this is something I really hope to explore as time goes on - and maybe even be the focus of my career and my specialty in the future - you never know!

At the start of this year, I was deadset on being a fashion photographer - the style you see in magazines such as vogue, vanity fair, harper's bizarre etc. But over time I have realised, that no matter the shoot, I always end up focusing on the model and the personality of the person modeling rather then showing the clothes to their best potential. I guess it's called a fashion portrait. I always show the clothes reflecting the personality of the model, and not the other way around. The model is always the focus So that dream has definitely changed. I have learned so so much this year it's insane...it's weird...my photographs are actually sort of on their way to being professional standard...and that makes me very, very excited haha.

I was also thinking today about prints, and I was just wondering if anyone would ACTUALLY be interested in buying prints of any of my images. Because deviantart asks me every time I upload an image if I want to sell it as a print, but what's more the question is if anyone would actually be interested haha.

I also just wanted to say that all your comments & critiques are really appreciated! I don't always have time to reply, but you spending the time to look at my images really does mean a lot to me!

I haven't been uploading a whole lot to deviantart lately, but if you are interested in seeing my other sites that I have work on, here are the links:
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But really, this post was sort of just a random collection of my thoughts! All I know, is that i'm actually starting to feel like a photographer.