Lydia Goodfellow: December 2012

Friday, 14 December 2012

Thursday, 13 December 2012

Since it was the spare of the moment and that I was running out of time, I wasn't able to go back and do another shoot. Because the hotel itself was so dark inside, I struggled a lot with taking photographs with lack of natural light and tried my best avoiding tacky built-in flash.

. If I could go back, I would most definitely bring some sort of lighting

equipment with me and stay a little longer, in hopes to get some interesting snaps.

However, i'm happy with the photographs I got, and because this project was so spare of the moment and it was by chance I found it.

I wanted it to be portrayed that way in my pictures.

An explorer on an adventure.

The Clogga Bay Hotel

The Clogga Bay Hotel

I decided to chose a project I most enjoyed and it was by chance that I found this place on my travels through the countryside of Ireland. After a long day of driving I touched lucky

finding this place. By now i'd gotten used to finding abandoned buildings dotted around, but I didn't expect

i'd find a hotel.

The Clogga Bay Hotel is a 12 bed en-suite hotel with large function room, restaurant and bar.

An ancillary 3 bedroom family residence forms part of the property.

The hotel has direct private access to the beautiful Clogga Strand beach. Only 3 miles South of Arklow it is very accessible from the N11. This 11,000 sq ft premises would lend itself to many possible uses including B&B, Hostel, Residential Care Unit, Function venue, private residence etc.

The Clogga Bay Hotel

Arklow, Co. Wicklow

Here is some ground work I did after I had been inside and after I viewed my images,

I was quite shocked that a once lovely resort had been

forgotten and left to rot.

Floor plan

Aerial view

Sunday, 9 December 2012

Test Shoot

Test Shoot

I took the day to do a few test shoots to work with my lighting and camera with an abandoned house down the road from my mother's house.

When photographing, I rely a lot on natural lighting. Though at times, it can prove to be difficult to rely on natural light, I prefer it.

Idea's

Idea's

In the haste of trying something new than I had first intended, I decided that I didn't need to take photographs that are personal in content.

The entire journey through the Irish countrysides

is personal enough for me.

Whilst travelling I found different

abandoned houses or unknown buildings left behind.

In a whole, it's a completely different feeling exploring something that has once been occupied and has been left behind, than to places that haven't been finished.

I later found out a lot of places that I explored were affected by the economy meltdown, a lot of these houses or businesses were closed down because of the fall in the economy.

A few of my explorations can lead onto my final project for this degree, but for this project I was open to three separate ideas.

Idea 1

The Clogga Bay Hotel

Location:

Clogga, Ireland

Idea 2

Unknown

Location:

Arklow, Ireland

Idea 3

Uknown abandoned seaside factory

Location:

Arklow, Ireland

Photo Shoot 1

Photo Shoot 1

When I went to Ireland for my projects, I attempted to do what I initially set out to do. I started travelling to different

locations around Southern Ireland, Wexford. I found a few 'ghost' houses in the town called Hollyforth.

A small town, situated among hills and scenery.

Location: Hollyforth

Photoshoot

Contact Sheet

Though I initially wanted and tried to do this project on ghost houses.

I found the dangers of it being repetitive and un-personal to me actually damaged what I wanted to do.

In truth, I felt bored when I was photographing. Though I think this would have made an interesting project. What I got in the end wasn't what I wanted.

I decided to try something else.

Lydia Goodfellow

Friday, 14 December 2012

Finals

Thursday, 13 December 2012

Monochrome Vs Colour

Monochrome vs Colour

Henk Van Resenbergen

Contact Prints

The Clogga Bay Hotel

Sunday, 9 December 2012

Test Shoot

Idea's

Photo Shoot 1