The start of my self initiated brief..

Its always a good idea as a starting point for any new project to carry out some thourough research.
One of the best ways that I personally find helps me to do this is to brain storm, draw out a spider diagram of ideas and see where my imagination can spiral off to.
I started off by going to the libary and taking out some books that follow by the title of 'Locations' to see if this gave me any other kinds of insperation, none of the books were of any interest to me as they were'nt quiet including the types of things that I had in mind. The second plan of action was to then go away and do some internet research maybe artists that had the same ideas or were involved in similar projects, this was when I first came across Richard Long and his location work involving natural objects. I became automaticaly inspired by his work and this gave me the final idea of doing a project all about 'being close to home.'
From this the main task that I wanted to make sure I had to do over my Christmas break was to decide on a project title, the first thing, I did was ask myself, what does 'Locations' mean to me? I see the word locations meaning a a personal place to each and every person, I decided to look at my very own location, the main place I call home, the little town in North Wales, called Llandudno, a town full of life situated in the middle of two beautiful beaches, here there would be lots of opportunity's to take some great photos for my project, I didnt just want to take the average boring landscape picture of a typical British beach, so I decided to look much further in, and focus more on what makes up the beach, just like my original thought of 'what makes a location..?' A project all based on natural objects bursting with vibrant colours and exitment all focusing on the idea of something being close to home.
I went on a number of diffrent kinds of walks during my three week break, by the end I had unpicked exactly what I wanted to base my project on.
The cold sea water brushing over the rocks and pebbbles, the decay that has left the shiny wet rocks stay put in the grainy sand, seaweed, muscles and shells so pretty sparkling the day light, my ideas were now starting to come together.