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I finished university yesterday and handed in everything on time. I surprisingly didn’t feel nearly as stressed out as I did last semester, and I don’t think I was the only one who was eerily calm. Almost everyone I spoke felt the same way.

Some of my classmates were saying yesterday how suddenly they felt bored by having nothing to do, but I feel like I am going to have thankfully busy summer. Not only is my family coming over from the US next week, my mom is getting married, I’m going to see my dad in America and I plan to start researching my dissertation and my final project while doing my work experience. I am really looking forward to doing to my work placement. I have an interview for a place in two weeks and I don’t want to jinx it, but I really really want to work there.

So this summer expect comments on essays and little snippets of information about the theory of photography.

Sorry for the lack of updating. I am having problems getting connected to the internet since I moved. But I have a little bit of connection right so I will quickly update.

Some new photos are on the front if you haven’t seen them. They are from a range of projects I did last semester.

This semster though, it’s so awesome. Studio Practice, Advance Imaging, and Language of Photography are my modules. I get to make a book. And I have the best idea for the book. I can’t wait to do it, if I can pull it off right it’s going to be the best thing I’ve ever made.

is Friday. Brain will resume work shortly after. Thanks.

I spent Christmas this year with my family in America. It was quite a nice holiday and i got some great pictures of some abandoned houses in the area for my next semester as well. I’m hoping to go back this summer and do some travelling within America since I have never really explored it before. I’ve only really been to Europe so the plan so far is to travel around the Gulf Coast and southren Texas, maybe some other places if I have the time and money.

I still have lots work to do on those photos and loads of work for uni.

So I have been back a week and I am finally able to update here. I have just finished an essay due in at 4pm today.

Prague was beautiful, particularly in the night time. There was a sense of isolation and it was a very quiet city. Much different from London. London is constantly awake and there is a buzz and city lights, in the old town in Prague there was just a sense of romanticism. I tended to avoid the touristy things to do like going into the castle and the Jewish Museum and things, I preferred just to wander around and soak up the atmosphere and see where I ended up. I feel that you see more of the city like that.

Hopefully after my mom’s wedding in June I will get a chance to visit for longer.

As for the photos, I took film so you will have to wait till they are developed to see them.

I’m in Prague at the moment. We took a coach here and it took around 20 hours, luckily though the coach wasn’t too full so I was able to get a couple seats to myself and sleep a while. And there was a beautiful dawn haze over the countryside as we passed through Germany.

When we first arrived at the hotel they put 4 of us into a room for 3 so I had to move into another room. That turned out to be a good thing as I ended up sharing with Marcia and we get along really well and shared a room together in Berlin last year. Then last night after dinner, a few of us were even having a nightcap and Ed came over and said Marcia and I were told to move out of our room by 8am. It was already 1am. We weren’t even told where we had to move to, so being a little drunk on Czech wine we moved into one of our friends rooms. So I am back in a room meant for 3 that has four.

Aside from that little drama, the trip has been nice so far. I seem to keep taking photos of creepy things in Prague. Mainly that means marionettes, I’m not really sure why there are so many shops that sell them here but I watched someone make one the yesterday. They are the weirdest things.

I also walked up to the Castle in the most round about way. It’s a long way up the hill and we ended up taking a route that took us further up the hill than the castle was and having to walk down the hill a bit to get there.

We didn’t go inside any of the buildings but just looked around and took photos of the people. There was a man doing metal work in one and also (what we think was) an archeology dig. Although all they seemed to be uncovering was plumbing.

By the time we got back to the bottom of the Castle it was lovely and sunny and the colour just seemed to pop off the roofs of the buildings along the river. We headed down to the Charles Bridge and saw the glowing, marching Penguins, and some really creepy baby sculptures. By this time the sun had started to go down and we reached the opposite side and were able to look back at the Castle as it lit up, really the most amazing thing, it was so beautiful.

Perhaps it is the romantic in me but the city is much more beautiful at night than in th day. Then again it could just be the night owl in me.

So although I am officially behind on my uni work, but I have a plan! I am going to catch up, all it take is a little help and some determination. Which I have tonnes of. There is no way I am going to fail this course I love it, photography is my life.

Thankfully work have given me two weeks off (well, one was already booked for my Prague trip with uni), but it means I can do research and collect materials for the essay that is due the week after I get back. AND finish off my costume for Halloween…

Have I told you about it yet? No?! It’s going to be amazing! I am so excited! I am going as a victim from Alfred Hitchcocks’ The Birds. Expect lots of drunken Halloween photos. Hopefully I will have time upload some before I go, otherwise there is going to be a massive Halloween/Prague post.

Heeheehee! Can not wait!

Ok, so it’s the first week back and I feel like I am already falling behind. This is not good. The way work has me scheduled and the days I am at uni is crazy. I actually have no days off until the 30th of October. Excatly when I am meant to take photos and do essays I am not sure… I guess it was a good idea to buy that light kit last year as it seems I will be doing most of my work in the evenings after uni and work.

I’m going to try and get into a rhythm and get a momentum going that will last until I go to Prague.

Ah, Prague, I cannot wait to go. I am already unbelievably excited about it. I hope I don’t work myself to death beforehand, perhaps I shall just crash and burn while I am there and take no photos except snapshots of the evenings out. Though that is highly doubtful.

It’s not all doom and gloom though at the moment working so much means I get paid lots in the run up to Christmas and I have managed to do part of a project tonight. Doing the research for a project is ok it’s just the actualy execution of the photos and printing.

Please don’t let me get ill.