I got the first book some point last year but never got round to reading it, until reading week came in uni when could there be a better time to begin reading. It's quite grubby from being carried around many places with the intention of reading it, and it was much better than expected and sucked me right in - I quickly read the second and third instalments after loving this helpful book so much.


As you can see, I have added many tabs on my favourite pages. The first book contains many basic tips and tricks to get you started, and although I had learnt much of this at work experience and uni, the easy reading of Carroll's book was worth tabbing for extra easy understanding.


I think my favourite book from the trio is "Read This If You Want To Take Great Photographs Of People" because my favourite subject of photography is portraiture, so that's probably why it was most interesting to me. Again the second book has many technical advice for taking a beautiful portrait, including the use of colour and light, or lack thereof.



I wondered which colour the third book would be after the first two were monochrome, my guess was white but the brown cover actually goes fairly well with my room decoration so I was pleasantly surprised and excited to have the final edition from such a great book both aesthetically and factually.


I truly highly recommend each of these books to anyone even vaguely interested in photography as it is very encouraging and helpful - simply worded even the amateur will understand how to take great photographs by the end of the book. I have even dropped a blatant hint to my brother about my interest in the journal that exists alongside this trio of information where you are encouraged to take photos of certain things and stick it into the book - a guided scrapbook if you will.

Hello good people, I hope your February went well. I've had a fair few ups and downs but what can you do but power on through with it? Nevertheless here is February, a little different to January there are a couple photographic projects that I have included as the week was pretty much based around planning and shooting that...


Week one, I took myself into a new environment which was both scary and exciting, I blogged the series that week so you can see it all here [x]. I was and still am very pleased with these images and last week I showed them to my tutor at the work check and he was very impressed - especially as it was my first attempt at this kind of thing. His complements and encouragement has certainly boosted my confidence and I would definitely do this sort of thing again.


Week two and I had my first ever roll of film developed after having a workshop in the darkroom the same week. I didn't develop it myself but I was still very excited with the results and knowing how it was all done. I bought two more rolls of film to use and I'm very excited to hand print them now that I know how - I just haven't found the time!


Week three and it was reading week at uni, so I took out a bunch of library books and have continued to visit the library in search of resources. I even managed to read two photography books I bought last year and they were amazing - I later went out to buy the third in the series and I think I might do a book review they were just SO good! I have always enjoyed reading but my favourites are fiction novels so it was very different to read so many factual and picture books. But it was inspiring nonetheless.

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Speaking of my lifelong love affair with photography, I'm dreaming big and hope to publish a book of my photography one day. (If you can read the page on the left it says "write a novel" so I hope to have a book one way or another) I've always been into books, more so when I was younger, I would always have one on me in case I got bored enough to take myself away from whatever the adults were doing and stick my nose into another world. More recently I've read quite a few photographic books and have really enjoyed some of them! A couple friends once said they believed I could achieve that so why not share their belief aye?

As well as encouraging you to make lists once in a while, I want to encourage your own hopes and dreams for yourself. From owning particular books or buildings to going on an adventure or becoming a household name, you are allowed to dream and to want to tick them off when they've become reality. So, make a cheeky bucket list now and take yourself to your goals, and happily cross off reading your favourite bloggers post for the week while you're at it ;)

Aloha friends, shock horror it's another photography post! As much as I adore them I always feel like I ought to balance them out with written stuff, so suggestions for chats and what not are welcome, but last weekend I went along to a protest and took my camera... you know what's coming...

I was given a leaflet/flyer by my good pal Steph, saying there was a protest against Trump's Muslim ban and against May's support of it. Now, to be honest, I don't keep up with the news and least of all politics, it confuses me so I'm never sure what's going on but hey I'm blissfully ignorant and happy to just do me. I don't want you to have a debate in the comments (who comments anyway lol) or try to make you think one way or another, I simply just want to show my documentation of an event :)


I'm going to caption some of these images with chants from the event and some quotes I managed to remember from the speakers who voiced their opinions, many of which expressed the need to protest and speak out, to show Trump what he is doing is unacceptable to these people.






















The number of people there apparently doubled throughout the event, their passion was admirable as they all came together, all ages and backgrounds to argue for the same reason. It was a new experience for me not only to take my camera into town just to photograph alone for an afternoon, but to attend an event like this and see it happen for myself. I felt brave for taking myself along and was proud not only for going but also of the images I got out of it, I keep looking back at them I love them so much!

Hello folks, I hope you are all well and a merry February to you! A new load of work has been set at uni and I'm getting my research and preparation for creativity on, but at the same time, I have been dreaming a lot. I've spoken about dreaming before and how I like to keep a track of them, but I haven't found the time to write them up in my notebook of dreams, so I'm left with weeks and weeks worth of bizarreness on my phone. Dreams are always so vivid and so crazy that sometimes I know I'm in a dream but the weirdness just carries on like a film in my head.

 One of my new years resolutions was to keep up with writing journals, from my dream journal to starting the notebooks I've been saving for starting a travel journal and my own personal archive of photographers that really get my creative juices flowing. Nevertheless, the need for more hours in the day never goes away, I just have so much that I want to do and everything gets prioritised over my need to write. I'm pretty good at keeping up blog writing (do you want me to do more written posts or is my excessive level of photography posts acceptable? Do let me know) but I also want to use the lovely Paperchase stationary *heart eyes* the mothership of all stationary shops.

I have always been a bit of a book worm, and although lately my book choice has been photography based I love a good fiction novel and have always wanted to write one myself, again, where is the time? A couple bloggers slash youtubers I follow are currently writing and it makes me want to be (cue singing) part of their world. I just want to make stuff, from photos to books and hey why not a photography book while I'm at it? It's always good to dream, even when you;re awake and setting life goals. I guess being a published author is one of my longer term life goals but for this year I really want to work on my own private hardbacks and write about the crazy adventures of sleeping Beky (last night I dreamt my lecturer tried to make me flinch but I saw it coming and then everyone thought I was an invincible force to be reckoned with).

Is there anything you keep track of by writing it down? We're all partial to a selfie, snapchat or instagram to document our daily lives and I'm not one to diss photographic documentation of course, but has the fun of sitting down and using pen and paper died completely? Oh the amount of times I tried to keep a super secret private diary as a kid...

Why not do a little writing this year, it's never to late to start a resolution! Maybe do something as simple as writing moments of the day or week that made your heart smile and keep them in a jar, when the year is through, open it up and read all the best moments of your year. Have fun!