This project is aimed to encourage you to explore natural forms and to look at their shape, texture, pattern, detail, light and shadow. You will need to carefully compose your images exploring depth of field, focus and how you will represent the qualities of the object/s you choose to depict. Although your object will be natural remember that as a photographer you have more control to move, arrange, alter and position them as you want. You can also alter the natural forms themselved by cutting them (or tearing, painting, taping, gluing, placing in water, soil etc.) You could make a sequence of images by freezing natural objects and photograph them as the ice melts.

Still Life :-
You could set up your own selection of natural objects and carefully consider lighting (natural, studio, flash?) You could produce a project based on the still lifes produced by other artists or photographers e.g. Van Gogh, Cezanne, JJ Priola etc. You could produce a still life which documents the change of light throughout the day (look at the work of Oded Shimson). You could look at Josef Sudek who explored one still life set near his window and he recorded not only the change of light but the change in weather outside.

Manipulating Natural Forms:-
Consider the ways you could manipulate, alter or work with natural objects. You could paint, wrap, smash, re-arrange, move or produce a sequence combining many techniques. Could you produce a set of images which takes a natural form from the real original to produce a final image which is very abstract or unrecognisable? You could take a set of objects and apply different art movements to them e.g. to make them cubist, impressionist, minimalist etc.

Exploring pattern, texture, shape and form:-
You could work with natural objects trying to show an unusual way of looking. Close up or wide angle lenses allow you to distort natural forms producing interesting abstract images. You could present the beauty of small areas of a natural form showing naturally occuring repeat patterns. Consider how you place the object in the frame. Consider photographing a natural object in close up in changing weather, light etc and the effect this has on the object.

Single Objects:-
Try limiting your project to one specific natural form- how many different ways could you explore it? Consider different backgrounds, lighting, weather conditions, painting, dissecting etc? You could make the natural object the star of a film, story or look for a poem that makes you think of a natural form. Consider ways of making a natural form symbolic and represent life. (Explore the work of Vincent van Gogh etc).

Decay/Growth:-
Present an object from growth to decay (or present the other way around). Consider looking at how objects mould or decay (do you wish to show this process as unpleasant, upsetting, in a sentimental way or as a positive or beautiful process?)

The Human Figure:-
Consider ways of exploring the human figure in all the ways shown above e.g. looking at details of the human form so it is difficult to tell what section this may be. Look at comparing with notions of high technology or the human body as a machine.