This trip was originally planned with the intention to take more images for the Who’s Who assignment, outside of our scheduled workshops. Myself and 3 other students from the course decided to make a day trip into Manchester city centre, with the idea that asking strangers for a photograph would be easier in a larger and busier environment as nobody would know who we were, and we thought that this would make the process less daunting or embarrassing. However, despite my best efforts I was unfortunately still too anxious to approach people, as everyone was in a rush and too busy with their own lives and I found it too daunting to stop people and be an inconvenience to their day; I was also worried about how people would react to having their photo taken by a complete stranger. My fellow students also felt the same way.

However, we still made the most of this trip and found many different examples of geometry and shapes for the Everyday Geometry assignment. This trip around the city really opened my eyes to the amount of shapes and geometrical patterns that surround us every day, many of them which we don’t even notice. Benches, buildings and installations on walls were all items that we found to have geometrical shapes and these images all greatly inspired me for this assignment. Although I won’t use these images as my final pieces as they aren’t all flat lay or my own unique compositions, they have still influenced my thoughts and the direction I will take with this assignment.