Choosing the cover colours was something I spent time over more than I should have white just didn’t seem to work I couldn’t see it working but black matches the images but is it the same shade of black as the images dose that matter is do the images have just one shade of black. I also tried gray as a neutral in-between but that didn’t work at all. Sally mans book has a black cover but the images inside are on white paper I think that works. It would have to be a black matt colour as a gloss just gets very fingerprintey .

The font is something I have also been thinking about I didn’t want it to be to edgy it needed to be smooth and easy to read when small also the colour of the font was something to think about white was to bright so I opted for a grey I am not 100% happy with the grey but other colours seem silly like brown and red I wanted the hole book to be very simple.  And as fine art as I could make it. What would be an idea is to find books with black cover and see what colours they have used and what worked for them.

although i would like the book images to be smaller I think the exhibition images need to be big i don't think you need as many just 2 or 3 I am going to print two to hand in i'm not sure if a3 is going to be to small but a2 is at the top end i don't want price to come in to it but at the same time its a lot on top of the book once you factor in p&p and the price of an archival box it comes to £60 so I think that prhaps a3 might be might be enough to see the quality and i can print bigger for the exhibition.

so I have been writing poems each time we go out and find something  it documents my feelings when i see the animal the state its in ect



text is very important to me and I need to figure out what I am trying to say with the photos.
I have taken them all in the same way with a flash  at night
the photos become dark the further back you look if that makes sense i wanted it to be like fading to blackness like the body shutting down. the flash is all about being quick I'm hoping the death was instant and having tryed out a long exposure it created a different meaning.  the flash just gave it a white light something you asoseate with dying seeing a white flash of light.


so the images are about the impact the car had on the animal i didn't want it to be close but you can see from the images the outline of what's left of the animal i think that's all you need I have looked twords crime scene photographers because they have to document what's in front of them as is. and that's persisly what i wanted to do show the animal in its last resting place as clearly as I could.

I'm not sure how to go about adding in the poems its all about how I felt when I saw the animal do I want people to have that knolage is it too personal are the poems good enough dose it change the meaning. 

my other option is to have the date time location and condition of the animal when found although theses are just cold facts not very interesting 

thinking about it poems could work its about the impacts cars have on animals the death adding a small poem to each image adds another layer of meaning almost giving the animal death an emotion i want people to see the animals death as a bad thing so many animals die on the roads each year adding emotion through words could make the images seem moor human like or is it giving people an emotion to work with when they are viewing the image.

This was the last image I took in Thanet this was one of three badgers In a row. The mangled state of the corpse was evidence of its time spent at the roadside. The decomposing stages had already started. The smell was not very nice I tried not to keep Bex next to the badger for to long when focusing.  Again the roadside was very buzzy so we di have to keep moving.  At this point we did stop for a little while as I had managed to walk in to a signpost on the long walk to the badger and was forming a large lump and an unwanted headache.  I keep going back to the fox with the curve in the road although there is no curve in the road I tried to creating a slight angle to the image in the hope it will make it more visually interesting.  At this point you cannot see anything on the other side of the road it dose add this ominous blackness. I like the way it feels like it is creeping in further to the image like the darkness is going to take over the badgers being. The exposure was F4 and with a shutter of 1/160 this brings as much light in to the image as possible while freezing the flash.    The focusing was difficult with this image because of the constant moving.

so this is the 3rd badger i have found yesterday i cane bleve they are all with in the same area. this one is hard to see again its on the verge how did a car get to it.  we do think they have been moved of the road so cars don't run over them any more. but are still left out i wonder if it was because they couldn't figer out how to despiosde of it or was is a reminder to the traffic that animals can be on the road.


i love the trees with in this image looming over the badgers body again I did try to take the image at slight angle to have that line drawing eyes on to the badger.

now I know this badger has been moved its back is very broken so it must have been hit there but its head is facing the road I am guessing someone moved it out of the road.  this is just another one of the images I'm not sure about focus wise i relay though it was in focus when i was shooting I checked 4 times on the small screen this was the best in focus one out of the 25 i took the curve in the road was something that didn't come out as much with in the image as i had hoped. i do like the fact there is a speed sign next to the badger it is another reminder of the car presents.

this was the first of 3 badgers I had found yesterday this one was very fresh I looked like it had just been hit.

The landscape around the badger was quite barren we where on top of the forest so there where no trees only small amounts of gorse and heather. i did try to angle the image but the road is a very bussy one and i had to stand on the verge i think the image is in focus its something i have been having consent trouble with but in this image i can clearly see that it is an animal so i am not to worried I just need to get images at this point i just have ten images that are usable but one is a little out of focus i wish i could take more but it has been hard finding the animals to photography I suppose thats not a bad thing.

this is one of the images I like most out of all of them I think its the position of the rabbit that dose it  the legs up in the air.
the road is so clear and clean it dose make the image seem more apeling than a road filled with rubbish and dirt.
the blood is very clearly staining the road its a head kill. I do like it when there is blood  it dose at a murder element but the image is still beautiful  thats very impotent.
the angle of the road is perfect it has a long curve and the light tralie of with it  it dose draw your eyes over the rabbit that something I keep wanting to do I want peoples eyes to be drawn over the animal I want them to see it but i don't want it so in your face.

this image was taken on the same day as the bird a squirrel lying by the houses. houses have not been with in any of my images and i don't think it works  as well the animal dosent feel so isolated but it dose show the links between animal and human having the death right o there door step . again visual it dosent tiy in with the rest of my work i think the light  bounces of the fence and gate to much it seems to green the grave yard on the other side of the road is mildly illuminated it dosent have the same affect as the other images the fading to darkness is not as obvious as before 

i do like the way this image looks although the bird was so small i was unable to see what it was I'm still unsure what bird it could have been the fetehrs where a light grey though most if it was covered in blood. the lighting works well with in the image the right hand side just fades in to black the tunnel affect dose seem to be sucking in the bird if anything i think i needed to put a little bit more light on the bird.

this was an interesting day we had to park a little bit away from the animal  so the headlights did not hit the animal think this is the style I would like to go with regarding the photos. I don't think I will show the animal up close  its to graphic for some people. the blood dose create a crime screen feel that's something I cant change with in my image its just natural the landrover ran over the rat just moments after we found it.    
I love they sign i was worries the flash would bounce of the mettle but i was far enough away to miss it. The affect of the exposure flash combination is this almost tunnel affect getting darker towards the end of the image its something I am glad happens  its like the animal is moving in to darkness or darkness  moving in on the animal.  as I am looking at this image I can see 3 small light spots that is something I will need to remove before printing. 
the light gives the hedge a really interesting glow somthing i would like to replicate with in the rest of my images. the lighting is not as harsh as i was expecting it to be so from now on this is how evry shot will be taken.

so this is the first image I have taken

The idea was to use the headlight to frame the animal, pin it to the ground.
using the headlights gives it this human intervention as a car had killed the animal the car  created by humans used by humans we where responsible  for its death. I feel that  is that obvious from
road and the broken nature of the body  I think the headlight may be to harsh.


the animal was in the centre giving it the main focus. I was worried that it would get lost  with in the image as the colour of the tarmac is similar to the colour of the rabbit 

so the first find was interesting it was a very flat rabbit.

there was some problems I didn't expect with tacking photos at night one being focusing the camera i couldn't tell if the camera was initially in focus i did want a soft fouct but im not sure if the outcome is what i had in mind the other being light i was getting shadows verywhere so we had to stand so we wherenot in the image or rather are shadows

This is a practices photo i saw the dead rabbit and took the photo in the same way i would take the photos when we go out looking for death.

the idea being that the animal is not at first ovus to the viewer they will know what the project is about and will be looking for the animal much like bex and i would be at night.  i hope it makes people studdy the image a little bit more than the would normally. 

althoughg i don't know if i will be doing things just from above i think the idea of long shots makes sence with in the images.

The idea behind the project is to show the distraction humans are causing to the landscape around us. Its been on the news and game shows that badgers are the no.1 animal killed on the roadside and the govement is treating it like a badger cull.  Theses animals are often treating as a joke or tossed to the side and forgotten. These images will be  a reminder of the destruction we are causing on the landscape as population rises and the land animals live in Is destroyed for new houses. We need to take the time to remember the ones lost before they all disappear. I know that’s a little way off but if we start doing something now maybe we don’t have to get there. Kelly Richardson’s work is a vision of the future something often barren with broken technology showing us glimpses at the nature once passed. My work is showing the start to the proses.