Getting Lost at the Winfield Mounds

This is a slideshow of images I took while at the Winfield Mounds in Wheaton, IL in January of this year.  In the beginning of the slideshow, I tried to focus on the some of the unusual colors found in nature, most of them being man made, such as the graffiti. The water pump that drains from color to black and white was my attempted solution at incorporating both the color photos I liked along side the black and white photos. We were required to add random media photos throughout our slideshow to be surprising and unexpected, or to maybe convey a message. I didn't really incorporate any theme into my media images. I think if I had the opportunity to redo the entire show, I would have made a statement with them, instead of random images.


The Way of Nature:
Nature is both static and dynamic at the same time. It is always changing in some way. Trees grow, plants flower in the spring time, the rivers rise and fall with the reception of rain water. Things die in the winter only to be renewed in the spring and summertime. Yet untouched by man, nature is always, nature. There will always be nature in some form.  


The Way of Culture:
I think that culture has a profound effect on nature. How do we see and value nature? Do we see nature as something we are in control of? Major problems of deforestation in the world result from views of man's dominion over nature. In Genesis God does give man dominion over nature to rule it, but He also tells man to take care of it. Ruling over nature does not give us permission to abuse it. It is there for our enjoyment and use but if we do not take care to restrain ourselves, nature may just disappear all together. 


The Way of Grace:
Nature has restorative properties that can be viewed and compared as a form of grace. Man has continually cut down trees, burned fields, and dug up plants, yet nature continues to plant new trees, fields have a way of growing back, and plants continue to pop up in places where they had been removed. With our ability to take what we want, nature never argues back, but simply gives up its treasures.