Change of mind...

I'm having second thoughts about the subject of my ARPS submission. At the moment I have a nominal title of 'Birds of the British Coast'. Now this is an achievable objective and if I am honest I probably have enough photographs already to submit a very strong series of prints. However, this morning I was road testing my new lens and as I did this I realised that there was a significant area to study in recording the ordinary, the mundane and the everyday. Perhaps this is something I should work on? It certainly is a lot easier than spending hours on the road. However, this ease posses another problem - just how do you record the mundane in such a way as to make it interesting? This is an interesting problem to work at.

So what is the answer? Well the truth of the matter is that I don't have to come up with an answer any time soon. I can work at both strands simultaneously and see which produces the strongest results. So lets see how things develop and hopefully I will have a difficult decision to make later in next year.

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Some colourful birds

Domestic Goose

Tufted Duck

The other day I spent an hour or so walking around Watermead Country Park, a local country park.  It used to be an old gravel pit and has been converted into a nature reserve.   One part of the park is now populated by a large number of swans, geese and ducks that have become used to be feed by people.  As a result of this you can get really close to the birds.  This means that you can get some interesting portraits of these birds without going to too much difficulty.