The City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia- AKA, a photographers paradise!

Situated along a 2km stretch of what used to be the River Turia is The City of Arts and Sciences, a complex of some of the most incredible architecture I have ever seen!

Having been there on holiday the year before, my parents had come home and raved to me about and so during our family trip to Spain in 2013, we decided to take a mini holiday within our holiday and spend a weekend in Valencia so me and my brothers could experience this amazing place as well as visiting friends who live in the city.

Historical buildings in Coventry- a college project

This was a project I did during my second year of college where we were allowed to write our own brief based around any area of location photography we wanted. So I decided to try my hand at architectural photography and document historical buildings in Coventry. This was a challenge to say the least, in more ways than one! I chose to focus on city centre buildings which was probably the root cause of all my problems. As you can imagine, this is the most built up area of the city and so it wasn't always possible to take the photograph from the angle I wanted to because there was another building where I wanted to stand. 
Also, buildings are large! I didn't realise how large until I had to work out how to fit them into the frame of my view finder. Even using a wide angle lens I found that I had to stand quite a way away.
And finally, finding a time when there were no people around meant having to get up and be out by 7am(ish) which, in cold weather of winter, is not a pleasant experience. And thinking about it now, if I was going to do this again I would just go with it and have people in the images. The buildings are in the busy city centre after all!

Cheylesmore Manor house

Ford's hospital

Council house

Holy Trinity church

St John's church

11 Priory Row

Coventry Cathedral

This was my first "proper" photographic type project although really, it was a year 7 R.E homework project. At this point I knew absolutely nothing about photography and basically wondered around Coventry's cathedrals with only the second digital camera my parents had ever owned, taking photos I thought looked nice. 

Coventry is privileged enough to have 2 cathedrals which are, inventively called by local coventrians the "old cathedral" and the "new cathedral"! The "old cathedral" is a ruin having been bombed during the World war 2 blitz, hence the "new cathedral" was built in 1955.

You might recognise this final image from my previous post!

How it all started

When I was 13 my mum sent a couple of pictures I had taken to the local newspaper and they were published! It's safe to say that I was quite chuffed and I started to believe that I might actually be not to bad at this taking photos business.