18 Months to 10 Years
In this photo, the main focus is the cigarette butts that stick out of the ground like flowers or people, each a different height and bent in different shapes. There are eight cigarettes, six of them are yellow and white and the other two are white with a green stripe. The ground that the butts are in is mostly dirt with sparse patches of grass. Behind the cigarettes is a leaf with dew drops on it. The meaning behind this photo was that cigarette butts don't grow like grass and the title, "18 Months to 10 Years" is the amount of time it takes for them to decompose. It just really bothers me that people throw them on the ground where ever they may be, but don't understand how it's harming the environment. Even though they are little, there are about 36.5 million people in the U.S. smoke cigarettes, imagine the waste. I think this photo is successful because it had structure and I was able to show the contrast between the earth and the cigarettes, which are two very different things. Some things don't belong in the earth and I think that's what this photo shows and I think it shows it successfully.