reversion

I need a new 'project',  an idea of a theme or core to base some new photography around. I like the storytelling involved in street photography, but I'm not going to be found in any urban areas myself. I'm not that fond of humanity overall, despite finding myself being a member. 

My natural habitat is on the beaches and cliffs, or in and around the lanes of rural Cornwall, far from the concreted over and manipulated centres of population. However, lovely as it can be, a picture of the whole landscape can only really be 'look at it, isn't it lovely'. Then 'fine, move on'.

What is a subject that I find appealing is showing the detail, or the story, of what does happen to all human-made constructs soon after abandoning them - or even while humans are still making use of them. Those stone, brick and mortar, concrete, glass and steel structures and infrastructure that have been built over the last few hundreds of years, to make spaces declaring the hubris of humans 'controlling' nature, and declaring parts of the Earth for their use, as if it's a separate thing.

I went back through my files and found that I haven't really concentrated on picking out that sort of subject before in any specific way (no surprise there), but it strikes me as a subject for which I could find plenty of examples locally.

Here's one I did find in my archives. It'll give an idea of the sort of reclamation nature achieves in a few short years. Imagine how quickly the world would become unrecognisable once we, for whatever reasons, just stop.

I like the idea that the reversion won't take long, and I'll look for it specifically in future. I can't go and take an updated version of this 2018 shot now however, because the shed that this wall was the end of has now collapsed and been further consumed.