Natures Magic: Colours of Earth

Your task is to take photos showing this great variation.

Find areas where there are different soil colours, or the vegetation gives a different coloured impression.

You might find colours varying from white sand, pebbles, red earth, yellowish earth, brown or almost black earth, and all kinds in between.

Take photos showing this variety.

Plants may give a pale or dark green impression, silvery or white, or blue or olive green and many other shades.

A very mossy area, or bright orange lichen, will colour an area.

If there’s a mass of flowers they will dominate the scene.

Photograph this amazing kaleidoscope of colour!

Once you have chosen and printed your photos, create your display.

It may be in a scrapbook, a collage of photos on a poster or several individually framed pictures.

You could even display your photos on your computer, using a program such as PowerPoint.

Label your photos with location, the predominate colouring shown and any other details you would like to include.

An idea to add something a bit extra to your display, is to collect a sample of each coloured soil, and to display these with the photos, or even create a frame by gluing the soil onto a card border for each photo.

You could take leaf samples from the vegetation areas (if allowed) and press these, or microwave dry them (this often retains colour better) and use these in your photo display too.