The OCA Art of Photography  – A Journey

Well after a couple of years deliberation I’ve done it! I’ve signed up for my first module on the way to a degree in Photography. It will be a journey which I hope I can complete successfully. Although I want to complete the degree, I am going to take each day or module as it comes!

I am a little apprehensive but then again really looking forward to the start, my study materials arrived today and I am in contact with my tutor.

An Arts course is new to me, that’s why am apprehensive, I have always thought of myself as a person looking at facts, with my career in Science and latterly IT rather than the artistic side, but then I have been enjoying taking photos for some time so there must be an artistic side to me too.

Why am I taking this course?

I would like to have a broader knowledge of photography, and being a student previously with the Open University I can appreciate the community of online learners, encouraging and helping each other. Plus I like the idea of a formal course giving me something to aim for and achieve.

Plus I want to get out of my comfort zone and have a challenge.

Well I’m off to open the coursework box!

Marilyn

Stour Sunrise

A photograph is a subjective impression. It is what the photographer sees. No matter how hard we try to get into the skin, into the feeling of the subject or situation, however much we empathize, it is still what we see that comes out in the images, it is our whole reaction to the subject and in the end, the whole corpus of our work becomes a portrait of ourselves. Marilyn Silverstone, British Magnum photographer