The success of this project depends on folks building ZeroCircles in the Public Lands (National Forest or otherwise) near them. These are PUBLIC Lands-- YOUR forests. Select a site that depicts something positive or negative about it's condition. Build a circle using people or things you find on or near the site, photograph or draw it, and send the result back to us along with a paragraph or two describing the situation along the lines of what is listed for each circle on this web site. We will link your image with all the rest on this site. If enough ZeroCircles are built the story may activate the media on a new level and the word will get out in a very broad fashion that it is time to end commercial logging on public lands--that OUR forests are far more valuable left alone. It's all about INTENTION! HAVE FUN!
Send a print or slide of your circle with a descriptive paragraph to:
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Circle Photo Tips
It's not always a simple matter to capture your circle creation on film in a way that communicates the features you are trying to highlite. I often use a superwide, 15mm lens. If you don't happen to own one of these or have invited a photographer friend to help you, try building your circle on a slope and photograph it from 20 feet away or so. Or, get up in a tree, rock, ladder or stand on a friends shoulders. Still another technique is to shoot 7 or 8 pictures of the circle and surroundings in bits and pieces that could be linked together to tell the story. We can scan them all together and put them on our website. If you can't get much of the surrounding scene in (like the picture here from the Colville National Forest) don't worry, just describe it in your text).
Be inventive
There are hundreds of ways of building and documenting your zerocircles. Have fun and don't worry about creating a "professional looking" photograph. That's not the point. The point is to connect with the forest and help make ZERO EXTRACTION on OUR Public Lands a reality! We look forward to recieving your pictures or drawings!