Image and Sound
Lovely sunlight on the trail today. To my left was a rough stone wall covered in all manner of mosses and lichen. I found a caterpillar traversing it and watched it inching along. To the right of the trail was a stream, that I visited on prior walks. The sunlight was amplified like a magnifying glass as it dropped off the tip of a leaf. I captured a bit of the Bubble Dance I mentioned last week too.
(I returned to the edges of a little stream, possibly spring fed, to make a few recordings and played with recording at different locations along it capturing different voices as it flowed over and around, spilled down here and dripped there, and pooled in areas forming bubbles. Bubbles appeared and disappeared, small bubbles joined to make bigger bubbles, all of them bobbing and jostling, sidling and shimmying, doing a spell-binding Bubble Dance.)
Laurie, I love the brief portraits of nature in action. They perfectly capture the idea of slowing down and observing the small things that we so often walk past. The caterpillar going about its business, the leaf bobbing in and out of the water like a jewel ( I would have liked to be zoomed in more on the subject with this but you may have been at the limits of your tech) . In particular I enjoyed the bubbles accumulating and popping. There was a certain amount of suspense built up as I watched them gather and the pop itself, albeit small, was still exciting. It might be fun to have an audio track that accentuated that sense of build up and release (in a subtle way, it doesn't need much).
ReplyDeleteLaurie,
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed watching each of these moments. The textures of the caterpillar's juxtaposition with the moss and its shadow felt particularly special to observe. Watching the bubbles felt mesmerizing and meditative, I could have watched them all day.
Lisa B
Laurie,
ReplyDeleteI remember thinking last week when you mentioned the bubble dance, that I really wanted to see what you were describing. And it was really engaging to see them form, grow, and pop, especially in slow motion. I could watch that all day too!