My journey on the witch way x43 bus

The x43 Witch Way Bus Journey



The Route




Research

As part of my research before i started my journey i decided to have a look online and find other artist who have have done similar type of projects to what i am going to do. This were i found a an artist called Bob Clayden who did a series of photographs of England's canal's and rivers waterways in 1972, when he took this journey he used a fourteen foot dingy called the hobbit, his aim was to photograph the ever changing waterways.He started the journey by travelling the rivers and canals taking photographs along the way up to Goole and then from Goole to Liverpool still taking photographs and developing the images in his dingy. His point of taking the journey was to show how the waterways were changing from the industrial back drops to places of pleasure and tranquility. I could only find a few images online but here is what i did find.



  Bexhill and Brighton    

 approaching Paddington Basin     


                             
This is the hobbit the dingy he used to travel the rivers and canal's and as his darkroom.

There isnt much online of his images and if i had known about this brief sooner i would of tryed to make to the exhibition which was held febuary to may of this year 2013.


My Journey



When i started this journey i didnt have a specific idea that i wanted to follow out apart from the fact that i would photograph anything that caught my eye while under going this journey. My first step was to get to Nelson. And then from Nelsons bus station i would find the x43 to travel to Manchester, which cost me £8.50 for a day rover so if i felt the need to get of the bus for a little while.

Here is a shot of the bus station in Nelson

This shot was taken with me stood at the x43 bus stop waiting for the bus to turn up.

I hadn't been on the bus 5 min sat at Nelson bus station that i knew which direction i was taking this project and this was through photographing the people on my journey in a candid format. Although im not completely restricting my boundry's to photographing just people.


This shot above was taken as we were quickly passing a bus stop leaving Nelson and for some reason it caught my eye, i think it was more about the person in the beige jacket that first attracted me to taking this photo, the only thing that doesn't look to appealing in this image was the reflection of the glass on the bus.

so now i decided to concentrate more on the people on the bus than of the bus unless something caught my eye. Most of the shots on the bus i was very pleased with as i caught a lot of  character in their facial expressions escpecially when they didn't know i was taking photographs of them. Like these images below







Then i saw there was another x43 out the side window and decided to photograph the bottom of the bus as that was what first caught my attention with what it said on the back of the bus, as i thought to my self it is quite comfortable for a bus.


Then was a load more people that got on the bus which meant i got snap happy again, here are some of my results.


After this shot above i changed were i was sat and went and sat to the back of the bus, were i got some nice portraits.






By this point i was getting a little hot so i decided to get of the bus for ten minutes at Ramsbottom and have a little break, this is were i got these few shots.


As you can see above the Transdev bus company are promoting our local heritage with the witch print on the side of the bus as this part of Lancashire was known for the Pendle witch's.




i decided when i got back on the bus that was going to carry on up stairs as i had managed to shoot plenty of people downstairs. And by that point we were just coming on to the motorway so i can some shots out the big top window.





As we pulled in to a bus stop at Bury i decided to take a shot of the bus stop sign as a record of were i was at that point.


And then as i looked down i saw a shot i knew i had to get 


This picture above was really lucky he looked up to me at the very last minute and i got this awesome shot, his facial expression really makes this image.



At this point i am nearly in Manchester and decide to photograph the city scape from the top of the bus.













































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