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What is Vision?

To think of vision with regard to landscape, how we see, what we see and why we see the way we do, there are many factors that inform our vision of it. To understand this we have to look at the historical perspective of traditional landscape and the role it has played in the contemporary landscape of photography as it is portrayed today.

The factors we take into consideration are political, social, domestic and personal. The landscape interventions that have taken place over centuries, have disturbed our view. The landscape of today is nothing like it once was.

Our ancestors would have had a completely different view of the landscape. It would have been a more rugged, untouched and unspoilt landscape. Nature would have had most of the control over it.

Today we see very little of how nature intended it to be. Today we see a man made landscape, anothers' idea of how they thought it should look.

But intervention began several millenniums ago. Man made his mark as a sign of occupation and control. Land would have been fought over or allocated to the different tribes or clans of the earth. Granted these early civilised peoples would have had respect for their land and abide by the laws of nature. But it still remains that intervention took place.

Stone circles, drawings, writing are all interventions.

Reading my free writing now, I can see a concept, can I work on this? How can I photograph this concept. find stone circles, find writings, find the areas where people once lived? Where can I go? Are there any such areas in this vicinity where I live? I have to read and research.