An assignment titled "Commercial Photographic Shoot Model" was set a for us a while ago by the college. The brief was to do a dual location shoot, incorporating male and female clothing in one internal and one external location.

Initially, we had to present a proposal of what we intended to do. I'd planned shoots of models wearing various headwear in different locations. Having in mind something that might look like a fashionable catalogue shoot, I also wanted a story element to the images.

However, I soon became uninterested in my plan. It was a fine plan, and ticked all the boxes for the brief. But I felt I was doing it purely for ticking those boxes, rather than try to make something interesting. Admittedly, I focused my attention on other assignments, such as creating my website and the Millennium Images assignment. Another student suggested I change my initial proposal to creating landscape images with clothing in them. At first I dismissed this, as we weren't really meant to change the plan. But quickly I felt strongly, that I should do what I wanted to do, rather than battle through.

I went back to thinking about clothing in landscapes and from there onto lost and found clothing. I also thought about stereotypical images of clothes being left on stairs or bedroom floors and began to have idea about clothing representing a male and female couple. I wrote a new plan, which included having the clothing in water, and progressed with the shoot.

Parts of the shoot were difficult, getting clothes to look right underwater was tricky and reflections proved to be problem. But I liked some of the images, a selection can be seen above. I don't think the images are very "commercial" they do however suit me more, even if they do need a little more work and the plan needs reassessing.

"Basically one of the strong Millennium concepts, is not to give directions to photographers about what to submit; somehow it sounds normal when we are talking about contemporary photography, it makes sense. Photographers are free to express and develop their paths and Millennium Images might pick from the series."

I had already registered a domain at www.philipgrocott.com (there's nothing to see there yet) in preparation of creating my own website. So, like many photographers I wanted to use my own name as part of the logo. Although I didn't want the word photography following my name, I needed something in the logo that related to photography.

After looking at different logos on the exellent Logo of the Day, I played about writing my name in different fonts. I then realised that I could make a camera symbol within the double T at the end of my name. I decided upon emphasising the initials of my name, by decreasing the size of the other letters. This way, the logo could be reduced to a smaller, squarer size and still be recognisable.

Below you can see what I came up with. I think it could still do with some refining, but I'm quite happy with it: