Updates and Student Photography

Field work for the year was under way for two weeks in late May and early June. I was joined by two undergraduate archaeology students (Chloe Brown and Chris Warburton) and a fellow doctoral researcher Randy Ottenhoff, all from the University of Central Lancashire. The field season was amazing and many new historical sites were identified and recorded. More information on these sites will come later.

For now I want to introduce one way in which I tried to get the student engaged with the archaeology and the Wind Wolves Preserve in general. I introduced a photo contest amongst the participants. The rules were fairly simple, the four of us would submit to view one image taken with our personal camera to the point of the contest. The submitted photos were then judged by participants and the favourite was picked. The winners were asked to write a quick paragraph about the image for publication on this blog. In total we had four contests, with the last one restricted to non-animal subjects.

Here was the first winner:

“This is a close up photo of a lizard on a tree in our campsite. The photo was rather hard to take as the lizard kept moving around the tree whenever I moved closer to take the picture, however in the end I finally got a picture. “

Chloe Brown

31 May 2013