photo by caroline..collins on Flickr.
This excercise required me to produce a set of pictures that tell a story. The sucess of the narrative depends on how interesting, attractive and varied the photographs are. The layout is also important, in dealing with a number of photographs, it is not simply a matter of deciding shape and size. The whole reason for shooting a variety of images is so that, when seen together, they work together as a set.
For this narrative I chose to produce a set of images that take the viewer on a short journey, a walk in the counrtryside to Whisby Country Park. I imaginged I was producing an information leaflet interesting enough to encourage the viewer to want to take the same walk. I intened to give the viewer the impression that they were on the walk with me, getting an idea of scenery and interesting observations of nature along the way until I reached the destination of the visitor centre. I took quite a number of images along with way deciding at a later date which ones to include, which ones seemed to fit together.
This first image sets the scene and shows the viewer the planning for the walk. The trainers, water bottle and map are placed intentionally to create an implied triangle, the grass is included in the two edges of the frame to give the image balance and context and being placed on the pathway gives a feeling of direction and the start of the walk.
Whisby Nature Park is a 150 hectare Local Nature Reserve located c. 7 miles south-west of Lincoln. Whisby Nature Park was opened in 1989. There are two full-time Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust wardens who organize volunteers to help them undertake habitat management and amenity maintenance, and development on behalf of visitors. The Nature Park comprises a complex of small, medium and large flooded gravel pits, which have now become 'greened' by up to 40 years of natural colonization and most now show superficially little sign of their industrial heritage
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