My project is about my "ordinary life". The dilemma I wrestle with most of the day is what should I include?
I could take a photo every five minutes, or perhaps every hour?
I could photograph my porridge on a daily basis to show you how skilled I am at using the microwave, and how much sugar I put on top.
Should I take my camera to work, or when visiting friends?
Can I venture into abstractions of normality? ( more than likely I will whether you think I should or not).
All of these thoughts buzz around throughout the day, along with wondering whether to write in my workbook, take more pictures or read something relevant to my subject area.
Today I decided to tackle FLASH; a skill that has eluded me for the last 40 or more years. I got my camera and a bottle of ketchup out on the kitchen table, and the work began. I didn't get very far, because something totally out of the ordinary happened; a man called Martin arrived to clean my oven.
Nothing ordinary about that; never before have I had a man wearing a head torch delving into my oven, down on his knees while I pretended that I know something about flash photography. Turns out that Matin is a keen photographer; he directed me to You Tube to find out what to do. Sadly, the Nikon flash that I borrowed does not talk to my Canon camera; after an hour of messing around I realised that I had no control whatsoever over exposures. I retreated to my computer.
Martin transformed my oven, and I produced a rather unusual image of a bottle of ketchup.
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