Photojournalism- First time with the 'Canon 450d'

Different perspective on Winchester City -different options and camera settings make the capture of the reality suprisingly better.


Different shutter speeds and depths of field make such a difference to focusing on the subject.

Contrast of colours plays a crutial role in images.

Changing an angle of the subject helps to show the different aspect of the subject.



Story telling and investigative Photojournalism is an emazing form of Journalism.















Winchester University Journalism Course Media Production Skills, Photojournalism

Reporting Skills, writing a local story- Hampshire on top with recycling

Over the last year, Hampshire became one of the best recycling areas in the country.

At the end of 1980’s Hampshire was facing a waste disposal crisis, as landscape was rapidly filling up, levels of waste were continuously increasing.

Mr Leon Richardson- Zhang, a communications officer for Recycling and Waste, said that “it was quite tricky” to get to the stage where Hampshire is now, especially when in 1988 recycling was only being introduced and people had to be informed about the importance of it.

It started of “collections of rubbish from homes” and “separation of the rubbish, what was quite a big project” at the time, said Mr Zhang.

Despite a difficult period of a worldwide economic depression, it has progressed immensely.

Previous campaigns like ‘Recycle for Hampshire’ proved successful and encouraged residents to recycle more of their households.

Additionally, Hampshire’s Household Waste and Recycling Centres will now remain open for an extra hour in March and so the spring cleaning and tidying of the gardens this month will have more time to recycle their household.
Moreover, thanks to the projects like INTEGRA, Hampshire has some of the best waste infrastructure in the UK.

It has now set itself a target of recycling 50% by the year 2010, what is “quite a likely target as Hampshire has been continuously beating targets set up by government".

Winchester University Journalism Course Reporting Skills, News Reporting, Local Story Writing

Government and Politics in Britain, John Kingdom- honest and funny

Favourite Quotes from Government and Politics in Britain by John Kingdom(2).

"The retention of the generalists' hegemony was justified variously.
Only they knew why around the Whitehall system, only could understand the (equally generalist) minister's mind; that is, the best people to lead the blind world be the blind."
That was part of the chapter about The Whitehall, Ministers and Mandarins in British Government.

How more honest can the comments of British can be about their own Government, I thought.

Reading further, I found something even more interesting about the Whitehall, "...a civil servant could be imprisoned for disclosing the colour of Whitehall toilet paper."

Further, in the same chapter Permanent Secretary, Sir Richard Mottram was quoted to have left a note to his colleague during the Sixth-Moore affair. It happened to be published in the Sunday Times in February 2002:
"Oh! sir Humphrey!
We're all f*****. I'm f*****. You're f*****. The whole department's f*****.
It's been the biggest cock-up ever and we're all completely f*****.

I really can't wait what else is this book going to uncover.


Winchester University Journalism Course People and Politics
TBC, Politics in Britain by John Kingdom

Government and Politics in Britain by John Kingdom - can be surprising?

Favourite Quotes from Government and Politics in Britain by John Kingdom(1).

"Members of sexual minorities, prostitutes, holders of unorthodox views, squatters, student protesters and so on can all expect rough justice."(chapter 20)
How amazing! That was written in the chapter for Justice and Politics: Trials and Errors! That view came out of the political processes throughout British history of Politics, Student protesters were put along with such respectful members of the society. Then in the following chapter there was an example of a police officer speaking to a young offender in absence of his parents...
"'You're a fucking little cunt aren't you? You've been at it again haven't you, you little bastard?... I'm going to nail your fucking hide to the wall'. (Smith and Gray 1985: 420)".

In one of the earlier chapters (15)a very meaningful comment was quoted:
"No one is qualified to criticise... unless he first hand experience of working in it. But if he has worked in it, then there is a convention that he should never speak about it thereafter expect in terms of respectful admiration. (Hoskyns 1984:4)"

I also found a little bit of poetry:
"Cabinet members are career politicians who, like Macbeth, entertain valuing ambitions of their own."

This beautiful peace of art was followed by quite logical and truthful statement:
"Charter 88 declared: No country can be considered free in which the government is above the law. No democracy can be considered safe whose freedoms are not encoded in a basic constitution."

Well, England, effectively has no written Constitution that is why I exceptionally looked into this sentence.


TBC (Politics in Britain, by John Kingdom)

What's real what isn't - Existence

Thoughts about the life... what's real what isn't?

I went through a 'philosophical hill' with my friend.
We talked about our aims of life.
We both wanted to succeed, we said, we wanted to be famous journalists, travel, write a book, have a huge house and great car.
After reaching our career satisfaction we would settle and have children.
How much of that what we said do you think was real?
How much is only going to be a part of our dreams or imagination?

'Dogs can hear things that we can’t hear... cats can see the real colour of the grass and dolphins can see/sense the baby in the human's womb'...animal's perception differs from humans but that does not mean that we should wonder which one is real and which is wrong.

Does real equal something that we can prove?
'We experience time or gravity' as Chris wrote 'we can measure these things and perceive them but not envisage them as dimensions within the perceived universe'...

People who 'suffer' of Delusions see things that do not exist for others, their senses perceive things and they react on them... 'we' universally called them as 'unreal' but for people who see them, they are it's their reality that we don't understand.

I think that reality depends on our believes and paradoxically believes cannot be proven.
Faith cannot be explained nor measured- it exists and we know it but can’t prove it.
Even when a scientists proves something with a logical and medical explanation it all had to be based on belief that their methods were the ‘right’ ones to be used.
Science aims to find the 'most universal' explanation for things to then call things and define- what makes it easier to understand and identify.

There are still many unexplained things in the world and whole universe, not proven and not yet perceived by a human being. I think that the answer is to stay open for everything that life brings and allow yourself for thinking that things are real as long as you believe in it without necessary proving it.

Winchester University Journalism Course People and Politics, A-Priori task, What is real?