365 Day 93 - Need to take more risks

365 Day 93 - Need to take more risks

I should start by saying that I am very uncomfortable with this but that is the point of the exercise. My OCA assessor commented in the feedback from my Digital Photographic Practice course that:

'Some evidence of creativity, little risk-taking with
a few imaginative outcomes, struggling to find a
personal voice'.

Having just received the materials for the next course which is called 'People and Place', my tutor and I have agreed that this is something we will work on this time. In preparation for this course I have just started reading 'The Photograph as Contemporary Art' by Charlotte Cotton and I have to say the that 'voice', expressed by some of the photographers published here is odd to say the least. I have resolved though to try to make myself take photographs which say something about what I am feeling and it struck me as I walked though the Churchyard on my way to school this morning how sad this was and how some poor family in Huntley must be suffering at the moment.

Is this a risky subject? Apart from the fact that relatives of the person concerned may see this blog and be upset, probably not, I am perfectly happy to photograph old grave stones and in fact find them interesting. This is very current and raw though and a huge step outside my normal comfort zone.