Karen Halverson

I like the focus on the fallen tree with the green tape hanging on it and behind it is more fallen trees as well as the top half of the background which is of tree up right. The composition of the different directions of the trees looks very good in my view. I like the light in the picture, it is very similar to Karen Halverson's style yet with my own unique interpretation. I took this picture because I want to make the viewer recognise the destructive power of man with deforestation and symbolising it with a small piece of green tape hanging gently over on of the fallen trees. I hope my picture makes the viewer feel annoyed with the use of deforestation in our world and how "What we leave behind is what we will become" makes people realise that shouldn't be reshaped by the destructive power of deforestation.

This is definitely one of my very favourite picture for a number of different reasons. I decided to develop Halverson's amazing project with tape with some of my landscape photographic skills, I combined a beautiful landscape with some meaningful orange tape to create this compelling, impressive and energetic photograph. I like the natural green colours of the water and trees, contrasting and assisting the bight orange tape to stand out so well in the photograph. I also like the texture of the water, the ripples which give the water a bright white reflect from the light. Lastly I like the way the orange tape is twisted round a very beautiful looking fallen tree which is resting in the water. My aim with this image was to make the viewer see how lovely our world is and that everything that we do we leave a trace behind, so we mustn't make a trace which changes our world for the worse.

I love the bold shadows that the roots make in this picture and the hundreds of roots going in different directions bring an image you could look at for ages. I also love the big close up of the orange rubbish which draws the viewers eye so immediately because it's the only object in rich colour. My intention for this photograph was to make the viewer feel confused in the really meaning and for them to understand how they want to see it because sometimes in photography and art it's because to let the viewer connote for themselves.

The lighting in the image matches Halverson's so well yet I think it quite clear that I have expanded on her idea and made it my own. I like that the focus on the blue rubbish isn't so forceful, although sometimes it is effective, it is nice that there's been a step back because then the viewer can see the surroundings of where the blue rubbish is. I want this picture to make the viewer feel that life is forever is moving on and they need to realise that we as a society are always leaving sometime behind and we must make sure we don't forget that our activities do leave a mark on this world how ever big or small.

I took this in cooperation with the first picture of the fallen tree wrapped in orange tape because I want my viewer to realise that we can change and that the evidence that is left after our amazing activities can be removed physically and mentally. I like this picture because of the dramatic look of the hanging tape and the gentle calmness of the lake and the lushness of the green background. I also like the way you can see that humans have cut the branches of the tree, therefore making it quite obvious that humans brought the tree down, I like the way the cut off branches are sticking in different directions making it that little bit more exciting for the viewer to look at.

I like the way your eyes are draw up to the orange rubbish which fixed up another branch but the trunk of a tree. I also like the way the foreground is quite colourless, apart from the orange rubbish which is extremely bright, and i also like that beneath the tree trunk is lots of smaller branches tangled together which resembles our complex society that we live in. My main aim of this picture was to make the viewer think about how the orange tape got there, and what happened in the past to get it there?

This is another one of my favourite images because of the innovative use of a bridge to expressing my project with tape in the wilderness of our world. I really like the way the reflection of the orange tape is distorted by the ripples of the water. I also like the shadows under the trees behind the bridge, as well as the way the orange tape of the bridge looks so natural hanging from it, I like the attractive blue sky and the rust on the bridge to some character. My intention for this photograph was to make the viewer think about the meaning of the tape hanging off the bridge and to realise that it's resembling evidence of past moments and we should always remember that everything we do evidence will be created, and that life is forever moving on and we can't ever stop so we much be aware of the evidence we leave on this world, as it's to make the future.

I wanted to develop on the idea of tape and experiment with photographing painted writing on trees in the wild as I think it suggests a lot of meaning about ourselves and the evidence that we create of our past activities. I like that it was taken portrait because it has given the trees a better sense of height. I like the sentence on the tree "HE IS BEHIND U!" and how it is in the foreground of the picture making it obvious to the viewer that it is subject. I also like the darkness of it which gives a more haunting and scary feeling. I want this picture to make the viewer realise that although activities may be fun in the moment, you'll always leave a mark of evidence whether intentional or not.

I love this picture for it's subtle use of the orange tape and the natural and realistic look it has in the photograph. I like the square crop and the dazzling greenery in the background. I like the blurred reflection of the trees and hedges in the water and how one of the orange tapes in centred in the middle of the blue reflected area in the water. My aim was to make the viewer understand that the evidence that we leave behind after our spectacular activities will always exist unless we do something about it and make our futures what we are now but better, not worse.

This picture really strikes me as captivating and rare. The fresh and sharpness of the modern rubbish contrasting with the natural rotting tree trunk makes this picture so powerful and diverse. I also like how zoomed in I got this shot, because it shows so much detail in the tree trunk. With the strong contrast between artificial and natural I hope that this picture makes the viewer realise that evidence is sometime that can't be ignored and we must understand it and use it to shape our future for the better.

What I think makes this image so wonderful is the complex arrangement of the thin branches that are tangled up, tangling the blue rubbish we it. I also like that most of the picture is grey/white apart from the blue rubbish, and I also like that the blue rubbish is centred exactly in the way centre which gives it a more noticeable appearance in the picture. I took this picture because I want to shows that rubbish (evidence) can get pushed so hard into our landscape and becomes part of our landscape unless we are aware of the evidence that we leave behind after out exciting activities in life.

I like the light in the background, and how you can see the tree in the foreground, and a similar tree in the background and another similar tree even further away. I like how the tree in the foreground is in shadow, whereas the other two in the background are in the light. I like the way the orange rubbish is balancing on a branch and the high brightness which matches Halverson's key style. My aim was to make the viewer understand that the activities we do with always leave some sort of evidence of its existence, whether mentally or physically and "What we leave behind is what we will behind".

Lastly this picture which again is another one from the same shoot as the second one down on this development webpage. I decided to show this one as well because I think it has some lovely quality that the first one doesn't have. The beautiful water for one, the fresh clean blue colour of the lake makes this picture so much more sophisticated and stylish.I also like the angle of the shot, looking down the fallen tree. I want this picture to make the viewer feel happy that they live in such a magnificent world and that what we do on it will always leave a mark. The marks we leave is what we are to live with so we must leave the right marks.

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