Laura-Elizabeth's photostream  

I am a twenty-five year old postgraduate literature student studying and living in Glasgow, Scotland. I spend most of my time divided between the city centre and the west end.

Most of my photography is city based: I'm interested in architecture, grime, people, rubbish, and graffiti. Sometimes other photographs sneak into my photostream such as pictures of my four Roborovski hamsters, snapshots of friends, and images of small and interesting trinkets I collect.

I am strictly an amateur photographer: my photostreams greatly varies in quality, but as time passes I find myself increasingly pleased with my captures. I became interested in photography when I moved to my first small flat in the west end, where I used disposable cameras to document the many discarded toasters and kettles that line the streets at the end of every month when leases end and people move on. In unfamiliar and impersonal roads I found evidence of life; of irons that would once have ironed clothes, of fridges empty that once would have held all kinds of food. These inanimate, everyday objects hinted at the mundanity of existence, despite their forlorn states on empty, rainy streets. I felt less alone looking at a vacuum cleaner on its side, with dust (skin, hair...) still trailing from the end.

After that, I moved onto compact digital. I started with a chunky 3.2mp Canon, upgraded to a Samsung with 6mp, and now I have my first DSLR: the Nikon D40. It was a gift from my now husband. I admit to not using many of the wonderful functions and tricks it has, but often am content to use the auto settings. I'm starting to feel the need to expand my abilities: to take pictures in the evening streets, to quickly capture moving strangers, and I'm learning slowly. I have no interest in the technical side of photograpy, but in just having fun capturing small things I find interesting, or beautiful, or poignant.






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