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Yesterday, I visited the land where the forest once stood that I spent much of the first year of my PhD photographing.  I used my iPhone to capture...

In the autumn, I spent much of my practice time Among Trees keen to capture the autumn colours and hues.  It was a stormy time, and I spent days...

In my final Thought Piece on the ten signifiers in the Object-Oriented Photography Onion Diagram, I will explore the remaining two constructs on the...

In this series of Thought Pieces about the ten signifiers of the realisation of being, I have thus far written about those constructs on the outer...

For those of you following my journey through the ten signifiers, you may have realised that I started from the outer rings of the Onion Diagram and...

In this Thought Piece, in the series where I explore the constructs in the 10 Signifier Model of Object-Oriented Photography Onion Diagram, I will...

For this fourth Thought Piece in a series where I explore the ten signifiers in the Object-Oriented Photography Onion Diagram, I have combined two...

Quite by chance, I found myself walking along the shore of Loch Cill Chriosd on Christmas Eve. I had spoken to a fellow walker who told me that...

In this third Thought Piece about the constructs of the 10 Signifier Model of Object-Oriented Photography Onion Diagram, I will expand on one of the...

This is the second of a series of ten Thought Pieces about the constructs in the 10 Signifier Model of Object-Oriented Photography Onion Diagram. In...

In September I wrote a series of Thought Pieces about the photographic methodology and strategies I use in the context of my underpinning ontology -...

As regular readers of this blog will be aware, I have been struggling to get words down on ‘paper’ in the last few weeks – being distracted by...

The meeting with my first supervisor had the following agenda items: Assessing Trees from a Train and the Short Video Series Confirming Actions in...

I am conscious this is my first blog for a couple of weeks.  It is not that I haven’t been working on my PhD but none of the activities in...

On 14 November, in my Critical Reflection and Review of Practice, I wrote about a moment of insight when I produced some short video films taken...

During Year 1 of my PhD, I came across the work of American photographer Cole Thompson and in particular his collection Trees from a Train (2019)...

I finally visited Dundee this week.  The whole of Year 1 of my PhD was impacted by Covid and the consequent lockdowns and so this was the first...

The meeting with my first and second supervisors was held face-to-face in Dundee, and had the following agenda items: Re-thinking Thesis Structure...