This shoot further documented the peripheral areas of Swinton, looking at scenes and objects that were out of place to hopefully create narrative for the viewer. These were influenced by the work of Alec Soth.
The focus on this image is the torn pieces of rope attached to the branches of the tree. I believe these have been left from where a child has made a rope swing and its eventually snapped, leaving evidence of past fun. The composition also shows the trodden path through the grass up to the tree which adds a nice movement aspect to the image.
This shows where someone has probably been doing painting and decorating in their house and propped the ladder up for a break. I like how the ladder looks like its gazing out of the window like a person would, pushing the curtains to one side to see out.
I took this image because of the unusual distance between owner and dog. It seems as if the dog has become fed up waiting for its owner to get off the phone and has decided to take itself on a walk. This image could also reflect our increasing need to be always connected to other people through smart phones and how we could be missing out on the small things in life like walking a dog.
This image reflects peripheral areas well because they seem like they're pointlessly put there and nothing really happens. This point is shown in the image which captures a signless sign, which effectively is pointless.
This image gives the viewer a strong idea that a window use to be in this position before being boarded up, this then makes them think about why it became boarded up and who might have completed this.
This picture has a really unusual composition because its not common that you see Saint Mary floating next to a house. Also I feel that the telephone box and pylon could refer to god being omnipresent in a more comical way. Again the unusual aspect of the photograph is quite subtle, making the image quietly surreal.
I think the composition of this image works really well to highlight the unusualness of having a tree without any branches or leafs. This will be because the tree has just been pruned so it doesn't overgrow, but still makes the photograph look quite surreal. The two blue bins mirror each other nicely and adds some needed bright colour to the photograph.
The subjects seemingly harsh pull on her dogs lead is what makes the image for me in this case, it makes the viewer think about what she's pulling the dog away from, while giving whatever the thing is a harsh glare.
The subtle unusual aspect in this image is the huge tv ariel on the side of the house, which looks ridiculously oversized for the size of the house.
I find this image quite amusing because it makes me think about a person who's thought about painting their fence for a while and begun painting to only think that it doesn't look good so they've stopped after painting only half a section.
I think this shoot was quite successful in capturing subtle aspects of the image that make the scene look more surreal, these aspects then make the viewer think about the past narrative to why its been left this way. I feel that I need to study a few more photographers that produce work similar to mine to hone my technique to a point I am happy with producing final pieces from. This is because I feel my style has changed quite a lot from the first series of photographs which used William Eggleston and Stephen Shore as inspiration. Ole Birkeland's 'Utopia' technique hasn't really been applied by me in this set of photographs because I felt it didn't really suit the images as much as it did some of the last set (including the photograph of the fallen chair). His technique is something that I can follow more closely later in the project. I do feel the images connect well to Alec Soth's work, apart from him taking time to ask permission of his subjects, whereas I just shoot them candidly without permission.