Documentary Photography 2012/13

I decided, for my final piece, that I wanted to create a Visual Book to display my work. What I want to do is include seven castles which I have looked at in the book, then as chapters, I will look at each individual aspect of that castle which I have photographed, then to round off the chapter I will include all of the castles which I have looked at and one specific features. So it would be, one chapter on Caerphilly, then at the end of that chapter I will focus on Windows, for example, then I will include all the images of each castles windows there, as shown here: As shown above, in my draft book, I would like to include text on the page opposite the specific aspect of the castle. I have read through several book and done some research online to comprise my text used in my book. Here are the books and websites which I have used to gather my information about my book. http://www.castles.me.uk/ http://medieval-castles.org/index.php?cat=70 http://www.chiddingstone.kent

I've been to a number of castles so far, and now I know how I'm use my photographs I know I am coming to the end of my project. My final visits are going to include Chepstow Castle and Caerphilly, and being back up in Cardiff, after the Easter Holidays , meant that my trips would be fairly local. Cardiff Central Station is the main Station in South Wales, so I will be using train travel, with my Railcard!  Chepstow Castle I had no idea that Chepstow had a Castle. I know it's known for it's horse racing, but not so much it's Castle, and what a Castle it was. The train journey was around 30minutes, which wasn't so bad. The trains were fairly often as well, at least every 20 minutes or so. It was a short walk from the Train Station in Chepstow to the Castle, you only needed to follow a main road through the town center.  The Castle runs alongs the river Severn, high up on a sort of Cliff top, which would have given it it's great vantage point at a tio

I decided to visit Llansteffan and Dinefwr a Second time, as this time round I will klnow exactly what I need to photograph.  FOCUS ON : TOWER, MAIN DOOR, WHOLE CASTLE, WINDOWS, STONE WORK, ARCH ABOVE DOOR.   DINEFWR LLANSTEFFAN

Oxwich Castle Oystermouth Castle My problem when visiting Oystermouth Castle, was the weather. It was very bright, and I feel like this could effect my final images.

Over the Easter Holidays, I was on holiday, so I made sure I made some notes, which I could include on this blog. They're fairly basic notes, but it's very important, to me, to include every last little bit I have done. I would also like to point out that a number of the Castles I wanted to visit were not opening until the end of March, which was very problematic.  I've considered many things in these notes, including some work towards how I might show my final images. 

After visiting some Castle in South West Wales, around Carmathenshire, I decided to visit the Castles of the Gower, Swansea. I am very aware of the Castles that scatter the coast of the Gower, as I've essentially grown up on the Gower. I know of around three or four, but on my first visit, and after noticing that some of the Castles were closed, I only visited Weobley Castle and Pennard Castle. Pennard Castle I had been warned by my mother that there wasn't much to see at Pennard Castle, but none the less I wanted to visit it to document as many castles as I could.  Pennard Castle overlooks Three Cliffs Bay, which is a stunning place so I didn't mind the trip. There was more there than I'd first imagined, but again not much which I could use for my final piece, I have a number of Castles which are fairly grand, with large towers and similar features, so I know that I want to keep to photographing Castles which do have quite substantial remains. Even tho