Setting Photo Assignments

The 21 images in this gallery were discovered in 200 metres of estuary shoreline, during an afternoon walk. My rules were simple: everything photographed remains insitu, it can’t be moved or rearranged in order to make a more pleasing composition. A friend and I spent some time trying to figure an appropriate name for this sort of photography. Clearly, the results are often abstracts, but this really only refers to the end result, not the process. We wanted a term that described the process as well as the end result. We tried discovered and found photography, or perhaps discovered abstracts would work? Hmm, not sure we got there, clearly more research is needed; I suspect the answer is only a few bottles of wine away!