I am not a photographer, that doesn't mean I've never used a camera or taken photographs, but most the personal photo work I do now is from my iPhone.
I have a plan, I am also aware that creativity isn't usually conducive to a plan. This is more like a rough idea of where I am starting and the direction I am headed in. I started today by taking the advice of Leslie and Roth (2000) when they said "Be a child. Go outdoors or just look out a window nearby and ask yourself, "What's happening outside today?" Draw the first thing you see. You have begun your nature journal."
So I went outside and took a photograph of the first thing that interested me.
This is a robin. One of the many that have occupied our yard since before it was a yard. They've adapted to the changes. This one is perched on a rock that was dug up and placed here during the construction of our house, five years ago. I would like to get a closer photo, but the robin doesn't let me come near it.
The robins live all over the yard, sometimes I can see ten at a time during April and May. They come for the freshly cut grass and the worms that are easy to find under it. They hop around the lawn, feeling for their next meal with their feet and beaks. Then they start building nests. This year a nest emerged beneath our front deck and the main entrance to the house. Each time we left the house, a mother robin would fly from beneath the deck to a nearby branch and sound the alarm that a predator was near. I could see the nest and it's three blue eggs through the cracks in the deck and I started checking everyday until one day they hatched and I could now see three little beaks and matted fluff. We watched them grow everyday until one day they were gone, hopefully because they flew off to some other yard or maybe they are still around mine somewhere.
This is a documentation of a space where the natural world has taken back part of the human world.
I have a plan, I am also aware that creativity isn't usually conducive to a plan. This is more like a rough idea of where I am starting and the direction I am headed in. I started today by taking the advice of Leslie and Roth (2000) when they said "Be a child. Go outdoors or just look out a window nearby and ask yourself, "What's happening outside today?" Draw the first thing you see. You have begun your nature journal."
So I went outside and took a photograph of the first thing that interested me.
This is a robin. One of the many that have occupied our yard since before it was a yard. They've adapted to the changes. This one is perched on a rock that was dug up and placed here during the construction of our house, five years ago. I would like to get a closer photo, but the robin doesn't let me come near it.
The robins live all over the yard, sometimes I can see ten at a time during April and May. They come for the freshly cut grass and the worms that are easy to find under it. They hop around the lawn, feeling for their next meal with their feet and beaks. Then they start building nests. This year a nest emerged beneath our front deck and the main entrance to the house. Each time we left the house, a mother robin would fly from beneath the deck to a nearby branch and sound the alarm that a predator was near. I could see the nest and it's three blue eggs through the cracks in the deck and I started checking everyday until one day they hatched and I could now see three little beaks and matted fluff. We watched them grow everyday until one day they were gone, hopefully because they flew off to some other yard or maybe they are still around mine somewhere.
This is a documentation of a space where the natural world has taken back part of the human world.