A Natural Dump

Living in England we are surrounded by beautiful country sides. Unfortunately much of it is ruined by humans dumping rubbish, too lazy to find a near by bin. We were given a project that we had to base on a piece of map randomly chosen, mine was a park, so to gain inspiration I went and just snapped away. What emerged were beautiful greenery images ruined by rubbish being dumped. I did not want to just photograph rubbish in an obvious Greenpeace type fashion, instead I wanted my project to be much subtler. Thus using my flash I photographed the beautiful nature with a flash gun, and had the piece of garbage hidden, out of focus, barely seen in the photograph so you really had to look to see they aren't just nice pretty nature photographs. I have carried on with this project, photographing rubbish found in beautiful places whenever I see them.

Please don't think me some crazy "save the world" protester, but I do believe we have a major problem of littering these beautiful, natural places. I loved hearing the story about one man who wanted to point out our ignorance over littering, he threw trash out of his parked car in busy places, most people walked past not noticing or ignoring him untill finally one man picked it up and threw it back in his car promptly running off. When they finally caught up with him and asked why he ran off he stated "I suddenly realised what I had done and was scared you would get out the car and beat me up" however I feel more people should be "throwing it back" instinctively.

I want to show this problem in a less "in your face way" than most. I wanted the images to be beautiful with just the hint of man made garbage. As I gain more images I will put new posts up, but for now I hope you like the few I have taken.

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