Trek Assessment #4

-My favorite experience had to be from Trek 02. I was taking pictures, when my boyfriend and I decided to sit in the grass and take a break(as I mentioned in another post). When I saw how great the sun looked, I decided to lay flat on my stomach in the grass and take pictures of leaves, the grass, and the sun. I took this one video of this leaf as it blew around in the wind. It was something so simple, but yet so powerful. I would have never noticed it if I was just walking by, but since I was laying down at it’s own level it just seemed like such a big deal. The sun was amazing. It seemed to just leave a glare in the left side of the video and it made the whole picture look kinda golden. It looked as if the lights and grass were glowing. I just sat and recorded this leaf blow around for maybe 2 minutes. It was as if the leaf was waking up at first and slowly getting more lively, and then at the end it just seemed to die. The only thing I thought about the entire time I was recording was that it completely reminded me of the film American Beauty. There’s a scene where the boy records this paper bag blowing around in the wind next to a building. It was a pretty long video he recorded and he says it’s the most beautiful thing he has ever seen. When I saw the movie, I didn’t understand how he felt, until I recorded this leaf blowing around. That was probably the most beautiful thing I have ever seen.