A Market in Bangkok

I didn't make this video, but I wish I had!!

Photographers Gallery, Ramillies Street, London

This is a short video of how the site looks currently.

Photographers Gallery, Ramillies Street, London

Near to Ramillies Street is Oxford Street one of the busiest shopping streets in London. This photo shows the view from Ramillies street onto Oxford Street

This photo was taken from Great Titchfield Street, if you image the scaffolding isn't there you would be able to see the building thats due for demolishion. Even without the scaffolding the access to Ramillies Street to bearly noticable.

And Carnaby Street a thriving pedestrainised area in Soho seen here with Christmas decorations.

Photographers Gallery, Ramillies Street, London

The second project for my third year. The Photographers Gallery in London is moving.
The new site is in Ramillies Street near Oxford Street and Great Marlborough Street.
Below shows the building that is being demolished to make way for the new gallery.

The new gallery has been designed by O'Donnell and Tuomey. Below shows an image taken from the final document O'Donnell and Tuomey produced for the gallery.

Shrubs Wood

This image is to show the layout to Shrubs Wood, and shows where the owners to the woodland live around the wood. The dashed line is the start of a short walk that my colleagues and I took part in.

Kent AONB

Below are some images from the surrounding area near to Shrubs Wood.

Kent AONB

As well as visiting the site, its important to see the surrounding area. To experience the area as well as thoughts and feelings for the site.

This picture shows the boundary that the barrow is very close to, and a meadow in the woodland very close to the barrow.

Below is some of my colleagues and I having a picnic in Shrubs Wood.


Tom and James re-living their child-hood by building a shelter and looking proudly at their handy work.

Kent AONB

As part of my final year project I went to Kent. Most of Kent is classed as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The AONB in Kent has been named High Weald, for more information about AONB's and the High Weald click here.
The site for the porject is in a small privately owned woodland, called Shrubs Wood. The main focal point of the site is a Barrow located in the woods. The Barrow is neolithic, which means it dates back to the 1600BC.
These photos show the barrow, but as you can see its not very visible. The proposal for the site is to be cleared and the barrow restored to its basic oval shape. The barrow is roughly 38m long, 20 wide and at its highest point up to 2m. The photo below shows the barrow at its highest point.

From these photos the white line marks the boundary of the trees which are to be cleared from the site. They used to be coppice trees but have been left for too long.


Below shows one of the main routes through the woodland. This path has been classed as a public bridleway. This bridleway runs right next to the barrow, and is the only path that does run near the barrow.

Tate Britain

The Turner Prize A Retrospective 1984-2006.

This is a good way to look at the winners of the turner prize through the years. Its a good way to see how art has changed and developed through over the 22 years.
The use of technology plays a part in some of the more modern art but yet there is still a retro look to some of the art.

No pictures were allowed to be taken around this gallery so it has to be seen to be appreciated.

One of the wierdest pieces was by Damien Hirst, called Mother and Child Divided originally done in 1993.
Its a very odd piece but I wouldn't expect anything else from Damien Hirst.
I won't say anything about it, I would encourage you to see it or at the very least click the link (here) to see some images.

Natural History Museum

The Natural History Museum is the home to the Shell Wildlife Photographer of the year gallery.

This gallery is definately worth looking at! The images that the photographers have on show were amazing. Some of the images just seem impossible to be able to capture on camera.

No photographs were allowed to be taken in the gallery and to be honest they wouldn't have done justice to the images on show. They are being shown as prints with a lit background so that every colour shows up as crisp as possible.

To view the winners and runners up for 2007 click here.

This is one my favourite pictures from the gallery. It was taken by Andrew Walmsley and is titled the Amber Thrush.
The image is from National History Museum and can be seen if you click here.

Out the front of the Natural History Museum is the Wildlife Garden.

The Natural History Museum call the Wildlife Garden an urban oasis, i'm not sure about this. This could be partly my fault for visiting it in autumn, but the garden seemed very manufactured, and it was hard to get away from the noisey road and building repairs that were happening nearby.

The garden does seem to doing well for something so small, with more then 300 native species, over 50 bird species have been seen, numerous amounts of moths and butterflies and regular visits from foxes, bats and squirrels.

This all seems ncie and looks good in the brochure but the experience of the garden is very dissapointing.