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Almost two years after my last post and I return. Much has happened in my life and over this time I have been experiencing more and more of nature. A year ago I began college after taking my GCSEs and have been focusing on A-level photography, honing my skills and learning how to take and edit photographs properly. Now I am beginning the process of applying to university after discovering what seems to be my dream course. Marine and Natural History Photography. Learning, in essence, to be a wildlife photographer, something I never thought specifically of but have realised is perfect for me.

Anyway, apart from academic experiences this year has been very interesting for me. Not only did I travel to Falmouth at the beginning of the summer to look at the university, I also went on holiday to Italy for the first time in 6 years which was lovely. My family and I stayed with my mother’s cousin who lives in an old Italian farmhouse in Ficulli, Umbria for eight days and then stopped in Rome for a couple of days before flying home. Whilst we were there the weather was warm and dry. However, when we came home we were forced back into the sharp reality of British weather, rain pouring down on us before the plane had even landed. We arrived back in Sheffield to find the longest queue for taxis and the next morning woke to reports that people who had been stranded in Meadowhall shopping centre had spent the night there, as well as the sad news that one woman in Derby had been drowned.

On returning to our house several days later, we found a multitude of mushrooms and fungi growing in the dark, damp undergrowth that borders our garden on either side.

So, since I am now ‘back’ I intend to make a new post every day focused by a single photograph which will be contextualised in some way by a passage of text.  I’m thinking of this as an extension of my portfolio for my university application.