Trek Assessment #3

-One thing I definitely did not expect was a sound I experienced in Trek 01. I was at the beach and I was recording next to a kite shop. It was a really windy day and I kept hearing a buzzing noise through my headphones. I had to think about it for awhile, but I finally realized the buzzing was coming from kites that were up in the air. Since it was so windy, the air was flowing through the kites and creating the buzz sound. I’ve never heard that before and even listening to it now, I’m still surprised that it came from kites.

-I was really surprised during Trek 02 when I was taking pictures. I was in this woods-type area taking pictures of a bird feeder. I was watching these squirrels that kept coming close to me when I saw this really small piece of wood coming out of the side of a tree. On the top of the wood, there was a nail sticking out of the top. By then I was just kind of getting bored and I started taking pictures of anything. I took a close-up picture of the nail and it turned out really striking in my opinion. I kept trying to get different shots of it but only the first one turned out nice. After looking at my pictures, that nail is still my favorite picture. It’s just so odd and unusual.

-During Trek 01, I was driving home after recording my sounds and I saw a girl and a boy playing basketball in this fenced in area. I decided to stop and record that, thinking it might be interesting to hear. I’m glad I decided to stop because I was happy with the way it turned out. I ended up getting this sound of not just the basketball hitting the ground(which most people could guess what that sounds like), but I also recorded the ball hitting the wooded backboard, which had an interesting sound to it. It was kind of hard to hear because of all the noisy cars driving past, but it was still held my attention.