Another piece from yesterdays photographic session. I also like the movement in this, contrasting against the solidity of the lines of brickwork. Two days of working on these has convinced me that I really ought not make distinctions between one type of work and another – i.e. Working with Creative Partnerships or other educational work, and ‘MY OWN WORK” with a lot of capitals…. I bring the same sense of creativity to them both. They both feed into each other, and they are both important to me, though often in different ways.

In the park this morning was a young Japanese (?) girl, who I’ve seen a few times before. She was dressed like a very stylish / designer schoolgirl, with headband, cardigan and socks over tights. This morning she was reading from some papers which she had leaning on the fence around thje football field in the centre of the park. I couldn’t really hear what she was saying, but at times it sounded like she was declaiming a foreign language textbook, in a way that you might if you were teaching people. Obviously she was only talking to herself, and a few seagulls.

I wanted to run over and ask what she was doing, but, of course didn’t. I’ve seen her before doing a similar routine, which she then followed up by kicking, and chasing after a red plastic football. She made a great picture. I really should take my camera to the park more often.

Meanwhile I’ve been trying some photographic self – portraits for the first time. An interesting experience, and one that I’m going to continue with. I have ideas for various settings, and also using props and other ambient lighting to experiment with. It initially proved more difficult than I imagined, but that is part of the exercise of doing it.