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A Vibrant Autumn Day
After a few miserable mornings, I set out at 6am with Freddie. The sky is ablaze, giving me a hint of the colours that will deepen before sunrise....
Autumn Arrives Early . . .
The early signs of autumn have come early this year, after a blazing summer. The temperature has changed on my early morning walks, silage has been...
From Mid-Summer and into Autumn . . .
Over mid-summer, while the sunrise is at its earliest and the days are long, I have used my daily dog walks over the fields with Freddie as...
Am I Creative in the Presentation of my Photographic Images and Does it Matter?
During my PhD, I developed a model of photographic practice that enabled me to capture reality through the unique properties of the camera to reduce...
Reflections on Personal Style in Photography
Over the years, the concept of personal style in my photography has occupied my thoughts. What is personal style, should I work towards one, how do...
Breaking Free from that Post-PhD Feeling
It has been a long time since I posted in this Journal. The award of a PhD led me to the pinnacle of academic achievement, quickly followed by the...
Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society
Fast on the heels of the formal confirmation of my PhD, I was informed this week that I had been awarded a Fellowship of the Royal Photographic...
Graduation Day!
On 21 June 2024, I attended the Graduation Ceremony at the Caird Hall in Dundee where I officially became Dr Price. The point at which the...
The Contribution of my Practice-Led Research
As a consequence of writing my recent post about visual heuristics and their importance for me in describing, clarifying, and developing my...
Reflecting on Recursive Practice
In my recent post, Defining Elements of my Photographic Practice, I refer to four visual heuristics that describe and define my...
Overcoming the Familiar
I have written several times about the need to come to know a subject and location such that I can enter an unconscious and intuitive dwelling place...
Reflecting on my Published Paper – Three Years On
During the long days of Covid lockdown, I drafted and contributed to a co-authored paper Object-Oriented Photography – a Speculative Essay on the...
Defining Elements of my Photographic Practice
In the context of writing a book about Object-Oriented Photography, I have been reflecting on the key elements of my photographic practice. What...
Dwelling on a Dreamy Winter’s Day. . .
This winter on Skye has been challenging with a large number of storms as well as heavy falls of snow and many days that justify its description as...
A Day in Practice – Transition from the Explicate to Implicate Order
In the context of beginning the task of writing a book about my photographic practice and the story of my research, I thought it would be helpful to...
Derridean Influences in my Photographic Practice
Dwelling in the Implicate Order
Recent academic reading has led me to the work of David Bohm (1917-1992), a theoretical physicist, and in particular his book Wholeness and the...
Among Trees – Formative Practice and Research
“Trees which move some to tears of joy, are in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way . . . in the eyes of a person of...

















