Paul Smith, the designer of this web site, spent many hours photographing the sculptures on the Trail. One of his techniques, as seen on the pages
featuring Fish Tree and Information Station 100 Yards, is to use negative images to show fine detail more clearly. He enjoys the
unusual colours this also produces; the greens of the wood made into beautiful purples and blues, and in the picture of Coming Ready Or Not, right,
the way that the blue of the sky has become a post-apocalyptic brown or orange.
Dark trees become bleached and skeletal and the 'military' look of this sculpture is made even more stark
and foreboding by the reversal of light and shade.
To the left is a photograph of the 'cloth' element of 'that thin red streak' which, as a negative, seems to glow as if lit by neon from
within. Patches of spring grass become colourful smudges of cartoon toxic waste while the railing becomes reddened with non-existant rust.
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