Describe three surprises or unexpected situations you encountered on your Treks and in the days that followed. The surprise could stem from your expectations that conflicted with "on the ground" realities, cultural or social issues of which you were previously unaware, feelings and reactions that you did not expect to have, appearances and soundings of things you did not expect, good or bad outcomes of "on the spot" decisions you had to make, or the discovery of "deeper" realities in the materials you brought home. (Again, skip anything technology-related!)
As soon as I came home I feared that I didn’t have enough material to start to form a halfway decent track. During the entire trek I felt that everything I was recording was very bland and tasteless, however I was pleasantly surprised when I went back in the studio how many of my pictures fit together to form previously unknown matches and details. After this I went back to the park when I wasn’t on my trek and was surprised again when I thought of so many more ideas I could have used for image correlations an how many different sounds there were that I didn’t record the first time. One “on the ground” decision that I found worked out really well was that when I was on my second Trek, I decided right before starting to take video and pictures that I was going to change my light capturing strategies. I first wanted to use “things moved by the wind” and “things that were damp or soaked.” Fortunately I realized that those strategies would have made for some very bland movies and I decided to change to “color transitions” and “only dead/fallen trees.” It turned out that those two strategies yielded a lot of opportunities for matches and blends.
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