Overgrown

Overgrown

This is a more urban development of finding beauty in the banal. In this case I focus on how nature has been contained and has almost broken free due to a lack in human care/activity. This shows a perfect example of boring modern architecture. This has become a common style of building throughout the UK. Breeze blocks and blank walls with metal separating each seamless dull wall. These buildings often have pockets of plants and shrubs for decorative purposes, often forgotten about and left to grow wild. This photo seems to be a great example of this, the plants have started to sprawl over their parameter and made their escape up the wall, whilst swallowing a tree. The spikes at the top of the wall create a feeling of  imprisonment, not dissimilar to the tennis photo. For me this shows a lack of maintenance and care in modern society.

I like the angles and strong geometrical shapes within this photo, these contrast with the wildness of the plants creating natural movements against the blank concrete surroundings. I also feel these strong lines all point towards the centre of the image and main focus of the plants. In raids to the angle of this photo I feel it could be too wide of an angle, this could work better on a slightly more tele lens, allowing more more compression. It could also work in portrait orientation compared to landscape.

For me this photo takes a look at a more modern and urban bleakness and banality. I think this is an interesting photo but I'm not sure If I'll focus more on nature within the everyday, this could become quite repetitive but may stay as a underlying feature. 

Next: I'll focus more on urban environments and the everyday that lies in them. I'll concentrate on subject and look for things that draw the audience in, finding something unique or uncanny. I may also look at creating photos in both landscape AND portrait, however I feel all photos in a series sit stronger in one uniformed format.