Have you ever thought you had a long time to do something in and then discover you had less time than you thought? Yep. Me too. I thought that the course still had several weeks to run, and from one perspective, it does. Our final session is after half-term, on the 28th February.
But submitting all of our work - Underpinning Knowledge Workbook and the minimum of 6 themed images printed and mounted at A3 size all have to be ready before then! Crikey! That's just a weeks, and I have to allow at least 5 days for sending them off to be printed and to be returned to me! So, my thoughts that I had a couple of weeks to take the rest of the images I have 'pictured' in my mind turns out to be only a few days... this is going to be fun! The rest of our sessions will be taken up reviewing where we are with our Workbooks and looking at our Portfolio's and what work needs to be done on them (in my case quite a lot!). Still, it's warm in the Classroom, there's a bit of banter and it is fun - so can't complain. This weeks session was a lot of fun for us - maybe less for Richard. It was raucous, fun, a little bit rebellious and yet, at the same time, quite productive. We had the continual torture of some of us having to present three of our photos for critiquing by the class, we spoke about printing and the varies of paper out there for both general and photographic needs, and we touched on a few - okay more than a few - irrelevancies at the same time. But we have to refine, hone and set our targets for the final main task, complete the various shoots we may need, edit and post-produce them, and then find somewhere to have them printed. Send them off, receive them back and look at them closely to ensure that each is as we would want them to be, then mount them onto boards of some description to take in for the final session. Not much then in only a few short weeks! I am looking forward to this final part of the course, even with the challenges that it might bring; but will be sad too. The group as a whole are fun to be around and I've had a good time with them. I've maybe not made the sort of friends I did on the Level I course; but it's been great meeting them and now it is coming to an end it's a bit sad. Also, the fact that this is Level II but, because of the way NCFE run a Level III course the Administrators at ACL won't run the Level III course (which I fully understand and support), it means that for now at least, there are no more photography courses that are available for me to do unless I want to repeat courses I have already completed. So, only a few more sessions and then the adventure will be over! Right, I'm off to look at what lens I'll need for these next set of photographs... Stay safe all, keep taking the photos! Alan
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Alan MitchellI'm always trying to capture that fleeting 'moment' in time -whether by taking a photo or writing a poem. My attempts to capture that illusive feeling, sight, sensation or sound in some way is, to me, magical. Archives
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