An Assesment and a (slightly) new direction...

I have decided to try and assess where to go from here with this project. The issues I have been having with trying to capture travelling in the UK and shooting portraits of the characters you meet along the way have been very difficult to overcome, especially within the restraints of the course and the time limits imposed upon the project. However, I feel that if I take a slightly different direction with my project I can produce some more interesting and varied work.

The Idea!

Basically, using big, motorway service stations has proved to be nearly impossible. The problem is that they are too mainstream, and as a result they have polices and rules in place which stop me in my tracks when I am trying to produce portraiture of staff. Aside from this also, the subjects which I have access to are not especially eye catching...it could just be any old McDonalds or coffee shop chain!

To produce more interesting work, I have decided to try getting off the motorways and travelling using A roads in search of diners and roadside food stops which are either independently run or part of a smaller chain where the rules and staff will be much more relaxed and probably more interesting to photograph!

I have noticed in my research that the best photographs taken whilst travelling are often shot in the little unusual places travellers come across and that are not often seen, which is the opposite to motorway services. I have begun to realise that to capture the spirit of road travel I need to avoid the larger, more corporate places.

So that's where I plan to steer my project from now on, in an attempt to avoid all the problems I have been having to date, and to find some more interesting subjects!