Critical Research Journal...

I began my week of practice with concerns whether lockdown rules allow me to continue with my research and particularly whether my image making out...

I am rather glad it is the end of Week 1 of my two-week period of photographic practice.  I have not enjoyed it for many reasons and my mood shows...

I return to the forest again in bright midday sun.  I am a little apprehensive after the comments from my supervisors yesterday, that the previous...

I had a meeting with both my supervisors today and the discussion was wide-ranging and challenging.  In general terms, the topics included the...

An altogether better day.  After seeking the advice of a few Skye residents about their interpretation of ‘staying local’ and their opinion of me...

I had not been happy with my image making yesterday and so was determined to improve today. I step out into a very cold and icy morning.  I decide...

I had a very restless night as I went over and over in my mind whether it was permissible given the current lockdown rules  to walk to a local...

I am due to start a two-week practice period next week and have been considering what the focus of my work might be.  As you will have seen from...

I have been reflecting further on Robin Nelson’s book Practice as Research in the Arts (2013) and thinking how I can refine his model to suit my...

I am starting to broaden my reading and research beyond that of photographers and artists in order to gain insights into how I might enhance my...

In our meeting before the break, my second supervisor suggested I pick out some small themes of philosophy, such as the unnameable glimmer (the...

One of the defining moments in the first semester of my PhD was when my second supervisor suggested I reframe my activities to place my photographic...

I decide to return to the loch later in the morning, rather than before sunrise.  The intense cold of yesterday has lifted and the sun has started...

This is not a photographic practice day for me but nonetheless I decide to visit the loch.  It is forecast to be misty, so I take a look before...

Over Christmas, I read a book by Raynor Winn called The Wild Silence (2020).  I had downloaded her first book The Salt Path but hadn’t read it.  The...

At the end of the first semester of my PhD studies I felt very reluctant to take a break. I was full of enthusiasm for the progress I had made, in...

As I contemplate a period of rest and relaxation after a quite extraordinary year, I feel a need to round off my writing by posting a blog about the...

I first became acquainted with The Living Mountain (Shepherd 2011) a couple of years ago and decided to dip into it again in the hope that it might...