here are the images that i liked the best. i wanted to keep the intence colour that i found so i changed the exposures and change the curve to really bring out the tones and colours.

dandelions were not on my mind when i first started this brief but i found them to be everywere and photographing them was really enjoyable for me and while editing them i found that i really liked how they looked and through research i found that they were actually really relevent to the subject.

with this image i was firstly trying to just photograph the bluebells that were there but when i stood back and had a look at were i was i just could'nt pass up the opertunity. in this image is the bluebells at the bottom, the grave stones behind and whalley abby is visable in the background. this is one of my favourites and i will definetly return to this spot to photograph a model some time.

in whalley grave yard was the first point of where i found ivy in abundonce. i like how the viewer can see the grand grave stones in the back ground out of fucus but still clear to the viewer of what it is.

this was the very first time that i had ever seen a bluebell of this colour. it was very difficult to shoot this as there was alot of other things to clime over. i had to stride over another grave and bend and twist my body to get into the right position. i think that the difficulty was worth it.

i found this dead ivy that was still on one of the oldest graves in the church yard. it is very different from any of the other images un this set but i found beauty in an unusual form and i believe tat this imgage fit well with the set.

here are forget me nots that i found hidden away in a quiet area, i like how i was able to capture a part of what is written in the stone allowing the viewer to have a closness with the image without it beign too intrucive. i had to crop some of this image out so what it would work better as a peice of work.

this is one of my favourite images of the set as is it probably one of the most obvious to the subject with the lage stone in view just behinf the plant. it wasnt my intention to be obvious about the subject i chose but i am glad that i have been able to add a little bit of clarity to my work and add a bit of versitility.

this is one of the less obvious images. on first look you can see a pink heather but if you look closer you can see the gravestone in the top left of the image. it is somthing that the viewer may not notice at all but that isnt really the point of these images.

with these images i wanted to give a softer and more of an artistic look. like with my other edit i like the images but there are one or two images that it just dosnt fit for. i do however prefer these images rather than others, they are more modern looking and would probably be more sucessful as a set.

i wanted to try out a few different looks with the editing before i decided how i wanted them to look. when i edit i will often make several different sets of images before i settle one that i like. i have made a few with the images that i want to submit. i have found that the different edits work differently for different images but i would still like to show my findings








here i gave the images a low contrast black and white look. i feel like the images look good like this but one or two do look a little flat and less attractive. its an alright look but i would prefer to have them looking a little more punchy.

symbolism

i wanted to find out the symbolism of the plants that i have photographed and that i am planning to submit. i wanted to have a deeper knowledge of the plants and what the sometimes meant. i thought that by doing this i can then have a better understanding of the plants and the relevance that they have with my work. i am glad that i did this research because i now have a hugely rel event connection with plants that grow in grave yards and there is now a clearer reason of why i would want to go and photograph these plants.
when i found out the symbolism that these plants have i could not believe how relevent they are. i was expecting to find symbolism that has nothing to do with my subject but i was able to connect every plant with a relevant symbol. i am now actually wondering if it is more than coincidence as to why these plants grow in such a rel event place. i can now believe even more the point that i made when i first began this brief as to the natural gifts that grow and live in graveyards, i have found an amazing connection with this.

forget-me-not

throught research into the symboligy of plants i have found that this one has very grrat significance with where i found it. forget-me-nots symbolise love and hope and most importantly rememberence. i found that the rememberence mainly stands for those who have suffered or have been lost in war. this is one of the most interesting point for me because when i was walking around grave yards (especially in whalley) i kept finding these flowers in the graves of soldiers from the second world war.

ivy

i found that ivy symbolises survival, friendship and growth but more interesting i found that it stand for life, death and rebirth, it is suppose to remind us of the heavens and how this reflects on earth. i found this to be around a lot in grave yards and especially in the very old ones that were less kept. i take the life, death and rebirth as a very strong symbolagy related to a graveyard and the growth symbol is a very positive thing to think about when finding this plant is a graveyard or church yard.

Heather

known as the "flower of passion" it symbolises passion and luck. it has many medical properties such as the toning of muscles of put into a bath, soothing rhumatic pain, atiseptic, treats nervous complaints, cardiac palpertations, migranes and mentral pains. in stories it was used to open the portals between the human world and the fairy world. suposably it was used in witch crapt to conjour the spirits of the dead wich i find quite ironic concidering i found the plant in the a church yard.