Another attempt at a nature photograph.

But it isn’t really. It’s a photograph about human action impinging on nature. Place a person in a landscape and it becomes human scale even if there are mountains in there. Ah, how glorious is nature (i.e. rough and rugged landscapes where no semi-detached homes are visible). Nature was tamed when the lads from Top Gear drove to the Pole and had a picnic. We can’t keep up the pretense anymore. Nature is the part of our playground that doesn’t have the monkey bars but might yet have wifi reception.

Such an oddly conservative field for a photograph. Pelicans and eagles. Coral reefs and icebergs. What are we hoping to see? What someone did on their summer holiday. The odd privilege of indifferent nature captured in still motion solitude, sneaking up and taking it by surprise when it thought it was alone. Like pictures of Susannah and the Elders there is a hint of leery-eyed perversity seeking innocence to any nature shot.

Or not.

The boy is probably throwing a stone. Look out Nature.