OUTER SUBURBS 195 – LOOKING AT NATURE IN THE MODERN WORLD

 

 

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Suburban landscape with clear sky and Lesser Black-backed Gull.

Two worlds.  The built environment, beautiful in its own, quite Minimal way.  But entirely rigid and immobile and – save for the curved sides of the light – entirely bounded by artificial, straight surfaces in this view.

And the other world, the Natural World, the world of which you and I are a part.  The blue sky, featureless, just a colour, amorphous, ultimately uncontrived, and beautiful too.  And the bird, intricate, alive, warm-blooded and – unaided – eminently mobile in the air, on water and on land, which is rather more than you and I can manage.  Millions of years of evolution have made it very good at what it does: it is a highly efficient scavenger and predator and, like many birds the world over, it has readily adapted to breeding on the structures that we build.

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Technique: TG-5 at 70mm (equiv); 125 ISO; Lightroom, starting at the Camera Vivid profile; south Bristol; 26 Feb 2019.
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