Humans in Nature- Erin

 






For this assignment I went on an early evening nature walk with my roomate and best friend. A challange in this was that I had to find ways of getting natural light (or streetlamps) to provide enough lighting so that I didn't have to use the flash. I was worried by the rain on my lenses in that it would degrade the quality of the photos, buth I think it adds to the images, deepening the blues by casting light on the lense. In the second photograph it looks almost like my roomate sees the waterdroplet on the lense. I wanted to explore the connection to nature that we get in the neighborhood and to artistically capture what these walks are like. Often when it is raining and dark, the nature feels surreal but not unsafe, which I wanted to show in my photographs. I like these pictures as they explore visually rain, nightime, suburban nature and humans. 



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