Textures

This year I've signed up for an evening photography course at a local college; there is a BTEC qualification to aim for, with plenty of tutorials and practical sessions to enjoy. We had our second session  yesterday evening. One of more useful activities in the course are the practical excercise, and last evening we were given the lastest - textures. I really need to get out and take some photographs expecially for the class, but I couldnt't help looking through some previously taken textures ......

And just to prove I don't only take close up photos of walls or in primary colours .... 

Which ever photographs I use - these here - or some I manage to take between now and the next class I will have to print, and then present them to my class-mates at the next session. Should be good to get their comments.

Another Night Carnival

The now annual Thames Festival came around again on September 11/12, with its Night Carnival on the evening of  the 12th. I had tried to take some photograph last years event, and despite some success with one of them achieved mainly disappointing results (please look at my previous posts on Thames Festival), and so I wanted to try again.

I managed to take a number of images, but on an initial look at the results, nothing  stands out of the pack.

I'm sure I'll have more time during the coming winter months to study the photographs in more detail. I'm thinking now that I may have enough images from this (and last) year's event to put together a sequence of, say 5 to 10 images, showing something the flavour of the Night Carnival, rather than looking for stand alone

 images.  Putting together panels/sequences of 5 to 10 images on  subject is something I've been get into lately - a sort of short photo essay.