Photo Contest Winner - The Table in the Trees

 

This is the area where we meet in the morning for breakfast and our evening meals after we have been working on a project. I photographed this area because I associate it with the peaceful and fun parts of the day. I also think this image portrays that.

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Chris Warburton

31 May 2013

A Very Fine Fellow or Why the Long Face?

The second image in the photo contest:



"When leaving the Wind Wolves Preserve early one morning we spotted this Mule amongst other Mules and horses by the road side. We gave this Mule an apple. He is very friendly."
 

When we stopped to visit with the mules and horses, a couple employees of the Preserve stopped us for a tease of "this doesn't look like archaeology."

The equestrians sparked an interesting conversation about the developments made to saddle and tack that cumulated in the Western Saddle. Aspect of which the students did not know about. 

Taken a step further and imagine what it would have been like at the turn of the 1900s to have worked cattle from a horse or mule. The terrain is very variable and often invisible beneath the grasses. There are rattlesnakes and rodent burrows. How might sitting atop horse or mule change a persons perception of the landscape and its inhabitants?

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