As a response to Emily Alchurch I wanted to construct fantasy landscapes that are aesthetically pleasing. By creating fantasy worlds, i have the intention to exaggerate the beauty of the natural environment and essentially show my perspective on the world. I want my viewer to connect with these images and build a relationship with the environment with the hope to stimulate respect for it. Not only do i want my conceptual ideas to come through in my photos but i also want to make high quality visual content that can be appreciated as a well constructed image.

The inspiration which stimulated these edits were as a result of our visit to a gallery displaying Emily Alchurch’s work and one image in particular which can be seen below. I was really drawn to this image mainly due to the depth that is included from the tree really close, all the way to the bridge in the distance, assisted by lots of interesting subject matter in between.

My Edits

I think these images have been successful in showing the fantasy landscape which i intended to do. Clearly elements of the photographs are unrealistic for example, being above the clouds on a floating island which help to convey this dream/fantasy world. The overall aim with the creation of these images is to question what words like landscape and nature can possibly mean in a world where environmental change is so rapid that both are fast disappearing into myth and memory. To further explore this environmental change I will continue with manipulation photographs however incorporate some man made features into them similar to what I have previously done in response to Tanya Deman.