Before you is a landscape in constant transformation.
Some changes are obvious. The bare trees of winter give way to spring blossom, the rich greens of summer and the golden colours of autumn.
Others are more subtle. The changing light, the level of the water, the growth of a single branch.
Return after a week or a month, and you may be surprised by how much has changed.
Create Your Own Turning Year
1. Capture the View
Place your phone or camera on the fixed mount beside this plaque. Take a photograph of the landscape before you.
2. Return and Repeat
Come back each week or month. Position your camera in the same place and take another photograph
3. Watch the Year Unfold
Keep your photographs together. As your collection grows, compare them and discover changes you might otherwise have missed.
We often think of change as something dramatic. A sudden event, a clear before and after.
Yet much of the natural world changes almost invisibly.
A tree doesn't suddenly become green in spring. Thousands of tiny changes take place over days and weeks until one morning we notice that the landscape has been transformed.
The Beauty of Gradual Change
A Year in Pictures
Imagine looking through your photographs twelve months from now.
The landscape will have passed through four seasons, countless changes in weather and light, and thousands of small transformations.
Each photograph will capture a moment that will never happen in quite the same way again.
Create Your Own Turning Year
Winter
Spring
Summer
Autumn
The View Stays in the Same Place
Everything Within It Is Changing
Return to this view throughout The Turning Year.
Notice the subtle shifts, the seasonal transformations
and how the familiar can offer something new every time.
Stay Connected
A Little More of The Turning Year
Receive occasional reflections, seasonal observations and invitations to spend time in nature