The first gallery here is telling a story of my walk through a National Wildlife Refuge in Old Orchard Beach, Maine. There are fences that are made to keep people out so that the animals, primarily in this case birds, can be protected and undisturbed since many of them are endangered. However, people being of the nature that they are, will never leave something alone simply because of a fence. The area in the thickets and off of an observation deck are specked with a surprising amount of refuse and litter. This ends up causing harm to not only the animals in the refuge, but also those in environments that are directly surrounding it and in general. In this case those places are the ocean and the marsh shown in picture five.
The second gallery shown here is supposed to be sort of representative of the story of a rock over time. Throughout the lifetime of rocks, they start as chunks of earth that eventually get ground down and split off either from nature or interaction with man, making boulders as shown in the first image. The second image is of the same line of boulders, but these have over time fallen off the rock wall that is used to separate the ocean from the river. This stone will over long periods of time be swept into the ocean and whittled down by the currents. The third image shows a pebble that has washed up on shore. This is the workings of the ocean on a rock like a boulder and how it resolves to shrink stones down. Image four shows what all rocks eventually become when left to nature’s devices; sand. All sand on earth are the tiny remnants of boulders from long ago. Eventually, this sand may be harvested by humans to make things such as glass, as shown in image five.
April 8, 2017 at 9:10 pm
The National Wildlife Refuge refuge photos are compelling. Can you craft a story out of them? In a conventional narrative, the protagonist meets an obstacle or challenge, then a crisis, which changes him/her. Who or what changes in the story? Can you add other images that could indicate this?
Your second story is one of the few in the class that actually shows a change in the protagonist, even if its rock! I also like the human element–the hands around the sand, maybe a hand around the glass too? this could indicate a relationship between human & rocks, and also the change that occurs in the rocks. Can you develop the plot more fully? How can images show a meaningful change?
Satisfactory