I've come to realize that most of my photography, or at least, what I post on my photoblog everyday, mostly consists of flowers and trees. I'm always drawn to the silhouettes left by branches or the way trees twist and turn as they try to find sunlight. I also tend to photograph leaves, especially during the fall when the ground is covered with them. This trend in my photography seems to relate well to my new obsession: living green.
Ever since the channel, Planet Green was created, I've been on a non-stop pursuit to completely change the way I do things. I even bought The Green Book, one of the best-selling books about the new craze. Though all this green talk is driving my family crazy, especially when I nit-pick on the things they do and how much waste they are creating by say, using one whole papertowel instead of half. While it'll be near impossible for me to get my family to make some of the same sacrifices I'm willing to make for the benefit of the planet, a fact I find disheartening, I find great joy in living the green lifestyle. I try to be more considerate of the products I buy, what chemicals are in them, and how much packaging is used. These small changes make me feel as though I'm doing something really significant, even if it just means adding a little less waste to the landfills.
It might be kind of hard to tell exactly what you're looking at, but that's only because it's a 3D sculpture meant to be seen in real life.
The little ladybug was my own invention, made out of a can the wrapper of a Coca-Cola bottle, and the inside of a floppy disk. The cute bug with green wings was made my a team mate, but that duck tape log was a last minute effort to use all of our materials. We still had a huge stack of newspaper and cardstock, so I realized it would would be cute to make a log for the bug. We also still had a pile of cds and I thought it looked like water underneath the log.
