So I placed these in the compost bin a while ago, and the promptly forgot about them. In some spots the image is mostly latent. Nearly completely gone, the staining came out with very interesting patterns on the print. I am happy with these as well just thought it came out well.
Well with in growing the friends in the jar have improved over the last week. I know the post is late, but I swear I have been taking the photos as scheduled.
So bringing them inside helped, I guess some times in life we all need a little shelter from the external elements that are affecting our well being. I think the Compost Jar is at its end point there has been little to no change over the last couple weeks.
I think that the plan for me know is to call this particular project done next week. I will do 2 final photographs next week and then start a new side project, (side project 1 is deceased as stated before, still figuring out how to photograph empty planters). I will combine the contents of the jars into a new vessel, and I will probably start another larger project. Not quite sure yet what cycles 2 will be but I have a few ideas
I have been monitoring the terrariums daily, watching for changes in the environments. I tried to make some decisions on how i was going to forward with this, how often was i going to photograph them, in order to show change. I decided weekly at the beginning of the project, but as i monitor daily I may adjust the schedule if something exciting happens and choose to photograph at a different time.
So the compost was significantly less volume in one week, and I already have some significant growth of the seeds. I have not needed to water the plants at all the soil is still plenty moist as well as the compost. This is very exciting and seems to be progressing nicely.
I realized in my last post I did not describe what was in the jars.
Compost Jar (from bottom up)- rocks, activated charcoal, organic moss, organic soil, orange peal (fresh and dried), egg shells, tea bags, coffee grounds, yard waste green and dried.
Growth Jar (from bottom up)- rocks, activated charcoal, moss, organic soil, basil seeds, purple basil seeds, chive seeds
The first layer of rocks, activated charcoal, moss, provide for drainage and filtering of the water that is in the environment.
The only thing I have done to these since the beginning is to mix the compost before photographing. After researching compost in order to achieve best results you should turn the pile.
Jerry Slough Photography 