A Child's Flight of Fancy?

[[Geoff Slocock]]

I have now seen this several times on my walks through Epping Forest over recent years. I think I recognise similarities with rough and quickly assembled bivouacs assembled by Ray Mears.

So I think it was built by children from the ready supply of fallen timber. I am taken back to my childhood exploits, too.

[[Geoff Slocock]]

A managed woodland always results in spare timber, and much of it is left to rot back. The textures and shapes are a little bit of a challenge... I have looked at piles such as these. I have tried before to make good pictures out of them. the linearity of these logs are a features that can be used in a composition, if you try to balance it up with other features. But, of course, they are still something of scattered train wreck of metaphor-carriages strewn here, there and everywhere.