My first test shots for this assignment has thrown up some things I like, and some I don’t.

My initial thoughts were to see the person behind the glass, but I really liked the images where you can only see part of the person.  I also quite like the idea of viewing a corner where perhaps there may be something different happening on each side of the corner.

I realised this ‘through a window’ is a recurring theme in my photography so I looked through my archive to see if there were any photos that would compliment this assignment.  After all I think a ‘collection’ probably takes a long time to collate.

However, what I found was, that the photos I found didn’t really ‘fit’ with the theme and I also thought about the thinking that has gone into developing this idea and that the consciousness I am using to take these images means I am actually going out to take these images and I don’t want to just make earlier photos ‘fit’ when they weren’t taken with this purpose.

The themes I like in the images:

• through the window
• obscured view of person / blurred
• reflection
• warm light inside
• asymmetrical lines from window frames
• old frames

The themes I didn’t like:

• modern frames
• people to prominent

I was originally thought I would choose a portrait format, but have now decided to go for a square format, because I am thinking of presenting the photos as pains in a window, below is my first attempt at this idea.

my thoughts are that I might take a photo of a real window and add photos to that panes even if they are uneven. I think as the photos are largely of old windows, I need to match that in the presentation.

Contracts from second trip out:

selection of chosen images: