What makes up a good photography portfolio?

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This week I finally completed the HNC in Photography and handed in my portfolio. I’ve been studying part time for the last two years or so. Overall, it’s been an enjoyable course and I’ve learned a lot. It always feels a little strange when you complete something you’ve been immersed in for a couple of years. On the one hand, I felt relieved to finally finish it, but on the other I felt a little sad that it’s over too.

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Gaia provides a new heart for Sheffield’s Park Hill

It’s wonderful to see such a beautiful piece of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show find a permanent home right here in my home city of Sheffield.

The award-winning “On the Edge” garden, designed by Sarah Eberle MBE for the Campaign to Protect Rural England, won Gold and Garden of the Year at Chelsea 2026. Now, its incredible centrepiece, a huge wooden sculpture of Gaia, the Greek Earth goddess, contrasts beautifully against the brutalist architecture of Sheffield’s iconic Park Hill flats.

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