Working slowing starts to reveal things. I'm exploring strategies of recording what I can during the exposure times of the images I am making. I've written on the page and spoken into my voice notes.
This time when I visited, the space felt different; there were diggers in the open space to the west of the road. periodically, they went quiet then started up again. There were traffic lights on the road which made my walking to and from my car to load the camera easier; my high visibility waistcoat affords me some anonymity and feel part of the infrastructure changes. I think about the roles I play to make these images.
Photographer, ecologist, surveyor.
I can hear so many more birds this time; my Merlin app records long tailed tit, blue tit, great tit, wren, goldfinch. I use the Merlin app to measure my exposure times when the light reading-pinhole app fails. I see a robin again, the seagulls and crows. I find I can export the spectrograms that the app makes.
I make four exposures, each time walking up along the road to cross one of the ditches. I spot a soft toy elephant in the verge and a small oak tree growing.
Slowness reveals things.
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