MEW Photography: The Hot Sausage Company

Friday, 29 May 2015

Seeing Red

When we returned to college last year one of our first mini assignments was to go out and about and photograph images with a certain colour. We had been placed in groups and were assigned one of Adobe's RGB colours, red, green or blue. I happened to be place in the group assigned to photograph red.

When we all went on our BMAG, Library visit, and Scavenger Hunt I started to take photographs around the city of anything that had a vaguely red hue. Not every image was successful, but finally I was able to collate a small collection of images that were red.

Shopping Baskets

Coca Cola

Barber Pole

The Hot Sausage Company Van

Red Leather Handbag

Red Plant (I haven't a clue!!)

Bread Bin

Good Old Heinz Tomato Soup (but with a twist)

Red Library Chairs

Big Red Bins

About Me

Well, here is a little bit about me.

At the tender age of 15 I decided that with my hard earned Saturday job money I would buy a camera, together with my first pair of Levis! My first baby was an Olympus AX2 with a Flash. It was tiny, bright and all mine.

My bright shiny new toy would be there for the start of my adventure into photography, until I was finally seduced away by the world of digital. I would take it with me to concerts, and flash away all night. My idea of heaven was a night rocking out to local bands, which later led to going to bigger concerts to see the likes of Thin Lizzy.

It was always with anticipation that I would rush off to Jacobs to get my film developed not knowing what the results would be. Yes there would always be an image where there was a head cropped off or that stray finger obscuring the viewfinder. I was never disappointed.

It was later on that I was finally given a digital camera, small enough to pop into my pocket.

My dream though was to purchase a “proper” camera, one with lenses that I could take off, and then maybe I could actually become a “real photographer”. In 2010 I finally purchased my first real camera, my Nikon D3000. This was the start of my new photographic journey with Nikon, one that I am continuing.