Rosemarie Court

Rosemarie Court

I am a psychotherapist and photographer interested in the developing recognition of the connection between neuroscience, the talking therapies, and viewing the world through the digital lens.

Location Scotland

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    Farewell

    An excellent course - well presented. It has opened my mind to so much in the literary and digital world. I found the labelling of concepts and ideas a bit daunting - but that is just me, I suppose. Thank you, team - you are the best:)

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    What are the literary-historical contexts of 'In a Station of the Metro'?

    If Pound reduced his poem from 30 lines to 2 can these 2 lines still be classed as poetry? Words written by a poet and printed in a Poetry Magazine makes those words poetry?

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    So how do you read?

    I am reading fellow students' comments and writing this post while sitting feet-up on a comfortable chair six feet away from my 27 inch computer screen - very satisfying. Otherwise paper books for literature and photography (I am a photographer) are my favourite method for reading.

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    How do we read today? Offline and online, print book and ebook

    If I lived in a mansion with miles of bookshelves I would choose a paper book for all my reading, but I live in a small house with limited space for bookshelves, therefore along with paper books, I have a Kindle, a laptop with downloaded pdfs. Incidently, I find that when reading transcripts as I listen to Professor Schweighauser, I remember the content more!

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    Why are you here and what do you read?

    Hi! I'm here because I'm interesting in changes in life style. I read mostly from paper books - science fiction, fantasy, poetry, although short research pdfs I read online or downloads. Looking forward with excitement to the course - teachers and fellow students.

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    Welcome from Philipp Schweighauser

    I really enjoyed my walk through the history of reading with Professor Schweighauser:) Lots to look forward to, I predict!

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    Discussion on Week 6

    The best FL course I've participated in, and this week brought M&M all together for me. The world of NIME I find fascinating and will explore it further. Reading the comments of other students has been helpful and sometimes clarified the scientific aspects for me. Thank you to the team of educators and to fellow students for a great six week experience.

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    Motion and emotion

    Professor Aksnes brings the concept of music, movement and metaphor together elegantly. The best video ever.

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    Introduction to perceiver movements

    In some music - folk music in particular - the performance can be seriously affected by the reactions of the perceivers. One wonders how during lockdown with only virtual perceivers performance may have changed.

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    Discussion on Week 3

    I find the study of multimodality exciting. The MoCap system is well presented and when I think of SciFi films like Avatar it explains a lot - fascinating! Looking forward to Week 4:)

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    Experiencing multimodality

    I shall be coming back to this later, but my feeling after listening to the video with my eyes shut was that the perception of the music will be coloured by one's feelings and what is going on in life at the time.

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    What we will cover in Week 3

    Per ardua ad astra!

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    What we will cover in Week 3

    Onwards and up!

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    Discussion on Week 2

    Labelling aspects of sound through research has added to my understanding. I am thankful for the comments of other students that help further that understanding. Looking forward to Week Three,

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    Exercise: How do you perceive these sounds?

    No 1 Metal - Impulsive.
    No2 Chalk on a chalkboard
    No Walking with the aid of a stick. Iterative.

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    Musical exercise: Affordances

    I understand the concept of music affording movement - illustrated beautifully with the Chaplin video. Looking forward to more on this concept in the course.

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    Perception as an active process

    I was interested inn the idea of mirror neurons and learning. I linked this to language learning.

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    Perception as an active process

    I think I have grasped perception and cognition - affordance?

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    What we will cover in Week 2

    I am learning German by listening to German pop singer Andrea Berg while I'm driving.

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    Week 1 Wrap-up

    A great Week One with so many aspects of research into music and movement research made clearer. Looking forward with some excitement to Week Two,

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    Methods for studying music-related body movement

    I found this presentation a useful lead-up to what to expect as we travel on - an exciting journey.

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    How can we study music-related body movement?

    Looking forward to more of this sort of approach - just up my street☺

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    The history of listening - Part 1

    I have often thought the conductor can make or break the music. What training is there to become a conductor?

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    A historical perspective

    I think movement and music are directly related, but doesn't always have to be perceived by a watcher. As a disco photographer in an earlier life I can remember photographing an African lady dancing alone and getting the feel of her movement although she hardly seemed to be moving at all - she was obviously able to transmit her enjoyment of the music...

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    Introduce yourself and meet your fellow learners

    HI! I'm from Scotland and have just finished a FutureLearning Songwriting course. The part of that course that interested me most was a very short piece on the psychology of music - I am hoping this course will take me further along that road.

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    Meet the educators

    Hallo Everyone! I am excited about the ideas that this course is related to! As a disco photographer and a music therapy psychotherapist I am hopeful it will give me more insights into my work.

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    Music and memory

    The best part of the course so far - thank you Victoria Williamson. Your philosophy and your voice bring all the melody required to take us further on our journey through the course.

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    Glossary

    A great opening week - thank you to course team and fellow students:)

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    Meeting Martin Simpson

    An amazing interview. You don't have to hear the words - only the sound of his voice - to feel the emotion. Makes me realise the connection between the words and the music.

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    Some tips for getting started

    I don't play an instrument but like the idea of using my voice!

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    Writing your song

    I like the adapted version best. Ain't got no home town so I'll have a go with my own lyric.

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    Being your own critic

    My main idea was to lead up to an unexpected ending. I did manage the ending, but I'm not sure if I portrayed the two people in the story in such a way that made the ending plausible.

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    Next steps in characterisations

    Per ardua ad astra

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    Thank you and good luck

    I have done many free online poetry courses during the years and this has proved the most encouraging and inspiring of them all. I have enjoyed the course immensely. Thank you, tutors, course team, and fellow students for your excellent contributions that have helped make the course the winner that it is!

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    Sharing poetry

    Thank you Jan B and Roz Roberts for your excellent reviews of my poem. Both reviews were very helpful and encouraging and I appreciate your time spent.

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    One room, many visitors

    My room is a space in a forest. A man in an orange robe is sitting before an easel painting - I cannot see what he is painting because I am too far away. A beam of sunshine has shone on the room. And now it fades away!

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    First impressions

    The Bird poem was soft and delightful - indicated a room safe to be in.

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    What is close reading?

    My first introduction to poetry was through nursery rhymes at school - I enjoyed those. Later though we had to learn poetry by heart and I was useless of that - I had the same problem with learning the alphabet and the times tables!! So poetry became more about the feeling that words gave me rather than the word itself. Today my favourite poets are Ann...

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    Welcome to the course

    I'm hoping total immersion in poetry on this course will result in some of it rubbing off on me!

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    What does poetry mean to you?

    Freedom, Words, Music!

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    Mental images of mental maps

    Learning differs from person to person. If I understand better what Rob is talking about when I hear him and read the transcript then clearly sound and vision in unison might (note I say 'might') be important to my learning.

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    Mental modelling: Part 1

    It might depend on where you met any of these people!

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    The Figural Effect: Part 2

    No valid conclusion.

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    The Figural Effect: Part 1

    Some bell-ringers will be bee-keepers.

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    Say hello

    Cognitive psychology is new to me - looking forward to see how it works.

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    Say hello

    Hi, fellow learners! Always been interested in psychology, and exploring cognitive psychology is my next venture.

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    Summing up week four

    My thanks to the course team and the ideas of Vahni Capildeo that have helped me grow poetically!

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    If you've enjoyed Week Three...

    A heavy week learning a lot. I managed the quiz and was pleased with that. Thank you tutors and fellow students for your great input. Onward now to Week 4:)

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    How to read - and enjoy - a poem - Vahni Capildeo

    I think I enjoy silently reading poetry as much as listening to the sound of the words. I've still to explore this discovery.

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    What are your initial attitudes towards poetry?

    I chose "the sounds and rhythms I can hear", but in truth I connect with all the aspects suggested.

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    Time to introduce yourself

    I'm a Hypnotherapist living in Scotland. Sometimes I write poetry!

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    We finish at the beginning

    I have enjoyed the challenge of this course immensely. I am now looking at fairy tales through different eyes and with better understanding. Am looking forward to other Future Learn courses from this university. Thank you, Prof Webb and to fellow students who have helped me along the way.:)

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    Starting your poem

    I'm looking through the window through the lens of my camera. The wind is shaking the trees and knocking the bees from the foxgloves. My imagination conjures up the sounds and the smells.

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    Workshop: The surrealist game

    This is a lovely game for getting the creativity going. As a photographer The View from Here is always on m mind:)

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    Making poetry
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    Welcome to Week 2

    I'm a binger - at the moment its photography. I've been doing a daily photo blog for several years now. What fascinates me is that I can have a plan for a photograph but something extraordinary happens and the plan gives way to that. For example this Rose was so special on the day that my other plan was abandoned. Here's the Rose - you can highlight this...

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    Welcome to Week 2

    I'm at most creative in the garden. There I can experience smells, colours, development, birds, butterflies - in fact, the whole of life - it fills my brain with such. That's during the day, at night I write.

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    Student discussion: Feelings

    This is an excellent video and I felt very at one with the views put forward by the participants.

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    What do you feel?

    Patagonia is an arid part of the world so I guess the narrator has a feeling of barrenness. The wobbly ladderback chairs can project a wobbly feeling, but a ladder to climb from that feeling.
    The touch I experienced from the poem was one of velvet.
    Each time I read the poem I experience a feeling of despondency. I wonder, too, if the 'us' in the poem is...

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    How do you do it?

    Remembering a lost lover - she speaks of a wobbly couple of ladderback chairs - her mood is blue - Patagonia is empty aching blue.

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    Editing again

    Thank you Leonard da Silva for a very constructive feedback. I did in fact mention the narrator's age - fourteen year old. I agree about the abrupt ending - it is something I will work on.

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    Being your own critic

    I think my main character comes across clearly. I did some research on caterpillars and that helped to bring the story alive. I stopped reading my story because every time I read it I did some more editing. Maybe my ending could have been taken further.

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    Editing practice

    Wintery clouds threatened the rush hour crowd with a heavy downpour. All seemed oblivious to what was to come - all but Hilary whose coat hid her loaded gun.

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    Developing a character from your notebook

    He was playing in the garden next door and totally ignored me when I called him from over the garden fence. His black coat suited him perfectly and nice and warm I should think on this rather cold day. He picked up the ball he was playing with and threw it towards me with such a teasing look. His big brown eyes held such a twinkle that I couldn't help...

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    The writing journey starts

    I suppose I connected with bits of each of the authors. I grew up with access to my grandfather's shelves of books and along with it an urge to write. This has happened in a small way in spits and starts!

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    Fact and fiction

    1 fact and three fictions: I always wanted to be a racing driver so joined the RAF to be a driver. Unfortunately for me the intelligence tests stated I would be make a good photographer and that's what I was enrolled as.
    Down in Hampshire there are hairy caterpillars that grow as big as my index finger, and they turn into the most exotic butterflies you...

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    Are the characters a success?

    I have only read the extracts - I was left wondering why Randolph had left a prestigious university - was it something to do with his personality?

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    From plot to characterisation

    I've enjoyed the first week, and it has encouraged me to start reading again.

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    Book club

    I haven't read the book - only the extracts. The interview was interesting as Laing states she is really a non-fiction writer. She states she did not edit Crudo but does edit her non-fiction writing. From the extracts Crudo reads like a string of thoughts in the way that thoughts can be like streaks of lightning coursing through the brain - they would...

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    Sentence structure

    I haven't read the book so am working only with the extracts. This short extract has a huge content and focuses on smells (patchouli), colour (orange, black), texture (bamboo), and symbols (nuns, umbrellas) - perhaps I should read the book;-) Someone has suggested a comma after 'Furthermore' - I would suggest 'Furthermore' be treated as an adjective! ...

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    What makes a good book?

    I'm reading 'Wings of Stone' by Robert Menasse for the third time. I love it because of the philosophical approach of the main character. I find with novels that I decide to read more than once that each reading brings something new.

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    Flashbacks and flash-forwards

    I suppose when a novelist is using 'flashback' to enhance the story/plot it can be deemed a true account of the actual even, but in real life it is a memory of an event - and memory can be defective;-)

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    Introductions

    Hi! I live in Scotland and am self-isolating and using the course to brighten my life. I am reading 'Wings of Stone' bt Robert Menasse at the moment.

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    Conclusion to Week 6

    I found the course demanding and very well presented. A lot was too technical for me, although I found the comments by other students interesting and inspiring. A hearty thankyou to the team who put it together.

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    What do we now know?

    Have immensely enjoyed the first week of the course, and am looking forward with excitement to week Two. So far I feel I'm engaging with it very well.

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    Is it safe to play with poetry?

    The nursery rhyme I remember most is 'Jack and Jill went up the hill' perhaps because I lived up a hill in those early school days. Of course, later when we were being taught 'real' poetry I hated it because rote learning didn't come easy to me and that was the way we were taught poetry. Fortunately, I found myself writing what could be described as poetry...

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    What does a lover of poetry look like?

    Poetry for me can awaken inner feelings very quickly. I poem is like a picture which can say a thousand words with very few.

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    Relax, you're in good hands

    Retired, living in Scotland. I used to write poetry and am hoping this course gets me back on track.

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    Meet your educators and fellow learners

    Hi! I'm from Scotland - a 89 year young Hypnotherapist - and interested in seeing how I fit in to this ageing process. Looking forward to the journey:)

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    Welcome

    Interested in the idea of prolonging life - looking forward to examining the process of ageing while I am ageing:-)

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    What can you use?

    In a court of law fact is of the essence, but fiction is often introduced to make defence story feasible!

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    Fact and fiction

    One Fact and three pieces of fiction:
    It registered 0 degrees outside and the frost lay heavy on the grass!
    As he looked through the window he envisaged the warm welcome he would get when he visited her. She would smile at him as he walked through the door. She would forgive the drunken abuse he'd hurled at her the night before.

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    Science of Sleep

    I scored 6 - not happy with this because I can fall asleep easily during a TV program and miss the sense of it.

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    Your Personal Sleep Story

    I tend to sleep better if I've done a lot of physical work during the day - like walking, gardening, lifting heavy things and so on. In the main though I have always had difficult sleeping - in a nine to five job you have to keep to a timetable (say 10 pm to 6 am) to ensure sleep time, but that has never worked for me. Since retiring I have allowed nature...

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    The gastrointestinal tract

    Excellent presentation!

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    The week ahead

    Really looking forward to learning more about gastro functions. I have Achalasia and have had Hellers operation which has helped a little as long as I am careful about what I eat and drink.

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    Glossary

    Useful glossary - a lot to hold on to.

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    Welcome to the course

    I have a gastro condition called Achalasia and have had Heller's Operation to widen the sphincter - so I need to know more about this part of the body.

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    The social impacts of aging

    Excellent article. Thank you for sharing.

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    Are you afraid of technology?

    I started off as a GPO telephonist in 1965 - that was the height of technology then. Later became an online tutor - I'll go wherever technology takes me☺

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    The pros or cons of wearable devices

    I'm 88 and don't wear any device except my brain!

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    Your experiences promoting active aging

    One thing that is important is to realise we are all individuals and what is best for one person is not necessarily right for another. I found (as an 88 year young person) that reading these discussions gave me lots of good ideas for myself - thank you, everyone!

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    Have you encountered problems related to aging?

    88 years young! Memory lapses - some make me laugh, some make my angry!

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    Revisit your journal

    My character is the partner of of a possessive woman who has destroyed his life's work of manuscripts. He ran a postal manuscript journal subscribed to by many other writers. They all end up in a bonfire. An opening paragraph might be:
    "Ben's conflict burns in his head raging out of control! Somehow it mirrors Gay's rage when she discovers his affair with...

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    Editing practice

    It was rush hour with the usual mixture of people and luggage, all oblivious of the torrential rain about to rain about to break except Hilary who carried her loadedbeneath her coat.

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    Creating your own space

    I've lots of half filled notebooks for various projects. Hope I can be more disciplined with this writer's notebook!

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    Fact and fiction

    I am photographer most days:) I like to photograph birds and flowers because they can be so colourful. I started off as a RAF photographer doing aerial photography for the Ordnance Survey Maps.

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    Ways to write

    Sounds an interesting interview - best of luck. I usually have a range of shots that I can choose from, so I would have a few with my phone camera both posed and a few candid - this would give a few to choose from to support your interview article. To have a photographer clicking away while this was happening would provide even more choices - ...

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    Ways to write

    Hi! I'm Rosemarie, a photographer who's searching for ways to combine it with writing - perhaps I'll find it on this course!

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    Did you get your feedback?

    Thank you Lisa Walls and Heather F for your very useful feedback. Lisa thought the title could be different and, in fact, I had wondered if I had got it right - I had changed it before I submitted. Both feedbacks were extremely helpful - it took a lot of courage to submit my poem, but I'm glad I did. Thank you so much both of you.