DAY 2: on Location

09/03/2016
PHOTOS FROM WEELSBY WOODS

I was more successful in this location. Trusty Weelsby Woods, it always serves me well.
I took some pretty ordinary photos, nothing really catching my eye. I did pick out the red signposts and photographed a couple but, ultimately, nothing really came to mind that could give them a relevance in what I was exploring.

I am not a fan of this photograph, but it included the red signpost. 

I much prefer this capturing of a signpost. Previously, it seemed irrelevant,
but in this photo, with the red in the tree, there is a better composition.
I did really like this photo.

I tried to capture the distant play area from between the trees, but again, not
particularly inspiring. 

It was when I got to this image that I gathered more inspiration. I simply
photographed the scene but because I had the zoom on, I noticed there was
something in one of the trees that looked like it could be a plastic bag:
something that was relevant. 

When I took the last photo, the zoom allowed me to look closer and notice that there was something in the tree that looked as though it could be a plastic bag. I also noticed more unexpected colours in this area. I know people tend to set up camps in this back field and leave excessive junk, so I thought that perhaps for once, other people's incompetence could be of use to me.

I got up close and was right, some delightful being had left a plastic bag wrapped around a tree branch. However, it looked oddly satisfying in this setting in the photographs. It is so out of place, yet somehow seems perfectly at home, with the way it is wrapped around the branch.

Further into the "camp" I found bottle caps, bits of fabric that look like they could have been an item of clothing; the typical mess. And of course, what camp is complete without a traffic cone. I mean, when I go camping, the first thing I pack is my trusty traffic cone...

I only made sense of what was hung in the tree when I saw the burnt out base
slung on the ground. 

Again, like the plastic bag, it was oddly satisfying, seeing the brilliant (or
should I say, weathered) red tip against the greens and browns.

It seemed rather effective zooming in on this scene, slightly distorting the
ideas of what is really in the scene. 

I was definitely intrigued by the traffic cone. What an odd turn of events.