photographing flowers and plants on a specific route,

so like I mentioned in the previous post during the feedback session today  it was suggested that I could photograph the flowers and plants that I come across on a specific route. Having gone home after uni I decided to go out for a walk around my area, with it being quite built up and residential I thought that I would be able to find a variety of different flowers and plants that were interesting and had nice colours so that I could get some interesting and effective photographs.

The reason that I have taken these photographs whilst on a specific route is to give them a deeper meaning, rather than me just snapping any photographs in any place, I have given them some meaning as I am documenting what I have seen that interests me on this route, showing people what I have seen.

Here is the route that I walked (marked in red):

It took me about 40 minutes to walk this route and I feel that I was able to get some good initial photographs documenting the flowers and plants that I came across whilst I was walking, below are the photographs that I took.

I think that these photographs have a better outcome than the last set of photographs. The have a deeper meaning, instead of me just snapping any flower or plant that I came across, I went out with the intention of photographing the interesting flowers and plants that I came across during this walk. I also think that the fact that there are some fences and roads and such in some of the pictures gives them a bigger connection to the meaning and makes them all the more interesting.

feedback..

So today we had another feedback session, at the moment my heads been a little bit all over the place and I've been seriously unfocused and unable to do pretty much anything due to personal reasons, meaning I've been a little bit lost of what I am actually doing when I go into these feedback sessions. This weeks session we again very helpful, I guess I was a little bit distant and vague on explaining the ideas that I have and my intentions and what I want to do, but I was given some good ideas in what kind of direction I could go in. I explained about the research that I have done over the past few days and that I had come across the work of Robert Mapplethorpe, Karl Blossfeldt and Evanita W. Montalvo and that I want to take flowers out of their natural environment and place them in the studio and photographs them that way, as taking flowers out of their natural environment changes the whole meaning of the totally, they are no longer where they should be and this is something interesting, why have the been removed? why are they now in a certain environment?

Having said what I was thinking of doing in the studio, I was also given a few more ideas as to other ways I could approach the theme, such as photographing flowers and plants of a specific route that I am walking, photographing flowers that catch my eye' and the weeds that grow up in between the pavement. I really like these ideas but the one that struck me the most was photographic the flowers and plants that I came across on a specific route that I was walking. I wanted to take this idea and produce some photographs straight away, which is what I am going to do.

photos

Having done the research that I have done over the past few days I have decided to back track a little bit and post some of the initial photographs that I took at the beginning of this assignment. I didn't post them as I was not really too sure about them nor if I was going in the right direction, however now I have a better idea of what direction I am going in I am going to post them simply as evidence to show a little progress from where I was then to the point that I am at now, here are some of the photos:

As a starting point I was pleased with these images but I then realized that there was no direction within them, nor was there really a specific reason for me taking them, i was simply taking them as I was to do with my theme.