Connie Lea – Project Pitch Journal and Updates:

Project Pitch:

Idea: Family Transport Business – one of the oldest in Bradford. People to interview: Head of the company, his family members (co-owners), truck drivers. Photos to take: Owner in front of his trucks, office workers, truck drivers, the yard, trucks out on the road.

Project Update – 31/03/25

I decided to override my original idea as I wasn’t able to get enough time to complete what I needed to do, due to them being a fully functional business. I did then start to panic slightly as I wasn’t sure of anymore ideas, so I set up a teams call with Karl. We discussed some ideas including events at the City of Culture in Bradford where I live, however most of these events were organised and I needed to obtain permission to photograph and interview. I came up with the idea that I’d make a story from the races as I was attending the first race-meeting of the year at Pontefract the following week. However, unfortunately I didn’t follow through with this idea as the training yard I was shooting on behalf of only had one-runner on the day as the other two were pulled out due to decisions made by the owners and unsuitable ground for the horse. Also on that day I was invited to shoot an England match at St. Georges Park so I attend that.

Project Update – 14/04/25

The racing team, did have another horse running on the 14th April. I did go to this race-meeting and did look for stories. It was AOP free-day and school holidays so I thought I could write something on that as well the horse I was photographing. I just didn’t have any ideas or long enough to interview people as lots of people left after the first-few races and I arrived for the 6th race of the day, for context there was 7 in total. So then I was really starting to panic as I had nothing at all. No idea, no interview and no images.

Project Update – 15/04/25

I had look online for local stories in the previous week trying to look for anything close to me where I can go take photos and interview people with the appropriate permissions. I did find a story and I contacted the owner of a newly built dog-park near me. We set up a date where I could go down and interview here and take images. She spoke to me about what inspired her to build the dog-park, what the response has been like for the community, she even give me a guided tour around the site whilst I took pictures. On the day as well, there was also a timely visit from a drain-pipe company who had donated a long-pipe for dogs to play around with. I managed to get a couple of pictures of this to add into the article.

Test shots from the dog park:

The two photos were taken and edited. I might use them in the final article, as I quite like the one of the dogs jumping in motion as that relates to what the Kate the owner was saying about dogs being free.