This is the email I sent to my tutor outlining my plans for the first assignment of this course. I will add his response when it arrives.

Dear David

I hope you are well? I am finding the course very interesting and enjoying walking the hills around home taking photos and thinking.

I have some ideas for my assignment 1 work I would like to share with you.

I have been reading about and looking at works by Julian Bell, Joseph Wright of Derby, along with Burtynsky and Gurtsky. In looking at works with trees I found Paul Nash. His work before the first world war is something special. Then his work in WW! still using trees but to show the casualties is even more so.

I live in an area with many trees and want to show them in my work. However I don’t want to show individual trees  I want to get up high and show the trees in the landscape. They make great features and also create lead lines into pictures.

I plan to get up high on a sunny day with clouds to add texture to the local landscape I want to create a picturly set of photos almost like postcards. However they must have great clarity with focus front to back. I think at this part of my learning this is what i must achieve before I start to try other things.

Being up high will help me record the land at present as building is beginning so the landscape is going to change in the coming years. I can document this change.

For this first submission I plan to put it on my learning log at pixel count of 3000 with a setting of 300pi to ensure detail for you to see.

I trust this meets with your approval and look forward to your input if you would like a different way to see the photos please just ask.
Yours Sincerely

Michael Green.515037.