Southampton Solent University Open Day

Went to Southampton Solent open day today, I got there in good time and had a tour around the campus before going to a talk, If it's not completely obvious from my blog I am/want to be a photographer, but the first talk I went to was on Photojournalism (I had an hour to spare) I didn't for one moment think I wanted to be on this course, Journalism really isn't my thing but I am very interested in reportage and documentary photography. It was interesting and informative on what to expect if I did go into the photojournalistic world. I had to leave the tour early to get to the photography talk, but spoke to the photojournalist tutor and told him that I was interested in photography but wanted to see what the photojournalism was all about since I take photos for my stepdad's racing team (CM Motorsport) which is definitely in the photojournalism criteria.

The Photography talk itself didn't really excite me, but I was given a book of this years student's work, and it looks pristine, I'm totally keeping it for inspiration. after the talk we got to look around the facilities which look very good, the building it was in had been recently refurbished, and there was a large wet and dry black and white darkroom as well as a just as large colour darkroom. I asked the tutor about alternative processes and he said they did a workshop on calotypes and ambrotypes etc which sounds good. 

The only negative* I could find was that the rest of the campus looked a bit old, and it's too close to home, I need to move away, I need my independence, I need to grow up.

I'm glad I went to the open day because I got voucher for a free cup of tea from costa, which was lovely, I went shopping after and bought some cute mechanical pencils (HB, ooh my drawing tutor is going to cry a little). I went to the Art Gallery and bought a book called Dan Hays Impressions of Colorado, I thought it was a photography book, I just read a bit it's actually full of paintings that look like highly pixelated digital photographs. Plus it was only a pound, awesome. 

I got the bus home, and started to draw people on the bus, I really need to stop this, I always feel sick when I get off. my arm was pressed against the window whilst drawing this since I had someone sat next to me made it hard to keep the pencil still so I'll call it experimental drawing.

This guy looked miserable, so I drew him.

When I got home my mum had put the christmas tree up and decorated it. so I guess Merry Christmas...?

again I am not a writer, please correct any grammatical errors that may be in this post... please.

Bonus: I listened to part of the soundtrack from Buffy the Vampire Episode "Hush" whilst writing this and it's thoroughly creeped me out.

*haha see what I did there, negative... hohoho it's a photography blog oh I am so funny.