I've had a look through my photos I took on the DSLR with the focus of the nature/culture idea, and imaging the ways in which I could collage bits from some images onto another. even some video footage too. I always record some videos, even if its just a few seconds long. perhaps they could become gifs where they move in the background of some collages. It's always very hard as someone who snaps a lot of photos to go through because just like when I'm actually taking them, I think all of the photos, looking at them afterwards, can be worked with. so I end up downloading so so many photos and no idea which to combine. I've had some small ideas here and there as I'm going through the photos, and I've noted them down in my super ambiguous and long list of ideas. I might upload some here just for reference. (but of course not all of them, this post would be endless)
again, new Zealand is known for its stunning unmoved nature (and I've just watched the lord of the rings series) and of course I want to source some images from here not only because I was born there and Christchurch is very nostalgic for me (went back to same city I went to school, but I moved around within NZ as well, I was actually born in the countryside of Rotorua, a tourist site famous for its bubbling sulphur pools) (though the places I went in Christchurch this time I've never been, everything is different when you're an adult and go on these tourist packages that have been there all along) but also because being a major tourist site for 'nature' it is super relevant to what I'm looking at right now. I want to comment on this but also maybe have the element of an abstract landscape as well that is more dreamy, I don't know.
from plane:
again, new Zealand is known for its stunning unmoved nature (and I've just watched the lord of the rings series) and of course I want to source some images from here not only because I was born there and Christchurch is very nostalgic for me (went back to same city I went to school, but I moved around within NZ as well, I was actually born in the countryside of Rotorua, a tourist site famous for its bubbling sulphur pools) (though the places I went in Christchurch this time I've never been, everything is different when you're an adult and go on these tourist packages that have been there all along) but also because being a major tourist site for 'nature' it is super relevant to what I'm looking at right now. I want to comment on this but also maybe have the element of an abstract landscape as well that is more dreamy, I don't know.
from plane:
from the city:
on the way to Kaikoura:
from the wildlife centre:
