This exercise was great fun to complete. It felt to me like telling a story and supported my thought process out in the field.

On a visit to St Andrews Bay in South Georgia I saw a beach with 100,000 breeding pairs of King Penguin and 5000 seals. They arrive on this beach within a few days of one another and return to the sea just as quickly once they have all bred and raised young.

Earlier in the course I had read about Roger Fenton (Fenton, 1854) and had seen his photographs of the aftermath of the charge of the light brigade his photo shows cannonball on the road used for the charge. This started me to think of the aftermath of the visit of the animals at the site I was to visit.

So I started by creating an outline of the kind of shots I would like to tell the story of the aftermath. The shots will not be easy for the viewer to see as they show all the gruesome aftermath much as those used to depict a battle.

I will open with a shot of the site fully populated by the breeding birds and then later in the season look for shots showing the suffering the creation of the next generation produces. I took sixty photographs over the next three months.

On my return home I looked at these exposures and got the list of ones I wanted to use down to twenty. The extra forty are duplicates of the same shots so are not needed.

I looked at several slideshows including the one in the course work by Andy Adams (Adams, 2013). I didn’t want to subject my viewer to 18 minutes. The duration I could comfortably watch was around three minutes so that is my target duration.

Another that stood out was Hunter Noack (Noack, 2017) and the Slideshow entitled In a Landscape. This slideshow tells of a classical concert about the landscape. It shows photos of the concert and people enjoying music in the outdoors. It is two minutes long and I felt comfortable watching for this duration.

This means each exposure in the slideshow will be visible for four seconds. This gives a total run time of just over two minutes. This should leave my viewer wanting more. One of my key aims in producing this work.

I used Photoshop to edit the images and then transferred them to my iPad where I used movie maker to produce the show. The process was very easy to follow and the instructions were informative and helped me add titles where I wanted them.

Next I considered music. I tried Sinfonia Antarctica No 7 by Vaughn Williams (Williams, 1952). It worked to a degree but was too long and a little too dramatic. I had made a series of recordings of animal noises and the sound of the sea and wind on my iPad so I tried these. They work perfectly and will allow me to add commentary so the viewer understands what they are looking at.

Last I played with titles I kept this as short and simple as possible just giving the location at the beginning and ending with the words “Until next year” to make it clear this will repeat every year.

Below you will find a link to my work, click on the link and the file will open on your system,please feel free to comment and let me know if what you think of my approach to the subject.