The Entrancing and Trampled Ground
I often look at the ground when I walk. Through this I have found a multitude of useless things, as well as coins. By looking at the ground, one can learn a lot of things. If it is later in the day, looking at the ground could tell you that someone is behind you, depending on how long their shadow is. This applies to trees, fences, buildings, and everything in between. Even looking at the ground in the blinding midday sun, the material makeup of the ground can tell you what you are in proximity to, and if it had rained earlier that week. It is rather easy to keep looking at the ground, in that there is always more to learn. However, it is even more rewarding when you can learn to look beyond just the flat plane, and to direct your vision upwards, and put the ground into its rightful place within the foreground, middleground, and background. And specifically in relation to the photographs presented here, the natural ground and its ever-changing relationship with the man-made is incredibly fascinating to me. Echoes of the artificial world lie on the ground, in the forms of a discarded item or a stray shadow. I'd like to think that these photographs properly reflect man's perspective on the delicate relationship between the natural and artificial worlds, all confined to the ground of course.
