With the feedback from my 1:1 tutorial starting to process, I made a visit to Bushy Park with the intention of changing my subject focus.
With the concept of Sensitive Chaos: Patterns From Nature, I revisited two areas of within Woodland Gardens in Bushy Park that I had photographed many times before.
The first was the Longford River. I was thinking of how the trees are reflected in the water and whether a similar mirror/reversal/reflection could be worked on.
I then went to Hornbeam Avenue. This overarching line of trees is one of my favourite locations in the park. It creates a natural ‘cathedral’. Intially, I tried an interval timer shoot of 50 x 1 second. I hand-held the camera, aiming upwards. The downside of this is that you can’t see the images while the camera is doing this. I have a feeling it was due to me having a high RAW file setting. After this, I experiemented with taking multiple shots from slightly different angles, also upwards.
What I was trying to get were the gaps showing the trees ‘crown shyness’. This is a natural phenomenon where trees leave spaces between branches so they don’t crowd each other out.
I then made an initial square cropped Black & White conversion.
I then created a mirrored grid, this time leaving a gap between the images. This was in response to Fergus’ comment during our 1:1 tutorial on the 21 April in regards to making the fine art substrate a visual/textural feature of each piece of work.
Having completed this, I then took one of the images of the Longford River and gave it the same treatment.
Jennie Meadows MA Photography 