At this time, I wasn’t sure exactly how to progress my body of work for Stage 2. I had a few ideas, but nothing had quite settled. There was only one thing to do, which was visit the park with the camera.
Once I arrived in the park, I first visited the tree I had experimented with back in February.
AGM64 Hawthorn Experiment 11 February 2021
The main difference this time was that it had now started to grow leaves.
What was interesting to observe is that only half of the tree was in leaf. There was one side which was still bare.
I then took some close ups of the branches with the budding leaves. These will need further experimentation.
One part of the tree that caught my eye was the top of the trunk before the branches split. I was really struck by the details.
After looking at these images when I arrived home, I created the following Black & White conversions.
When looking at the two images together, it struck me how they ‘flowed’ together. Maybe returning to the concept of building a tree with different elements was viable.
I continued through the part and was starting to realise that the hawthorns weren’t quite ready for their show of blossom. This would be at least two more weeks before any hint of pink could be seen.
What I had started noticing instead was how the leaves of these Horse Chestnut trees while they were growing from their buds. They looked so frail and fragile, like a baby animal.
I then took the following images of the Horse Chestnuts with the Lime trees behind. The Limes had yet to start growing their leaves, so give an interesting backdrop.
I tried the following Black & White conversion with a compositional crop to compare with the original colour image.
Not perfect, but something’s ocurring.
Jennie Meadows MA Photography 