Day 5 - Bottles
It is a Saturday today and its been a very busy week, so I have a couple of easier images in mind for the next few days, todays is obvious but tomorrows maybe not so much! So todays is a short one.
I’ve been thinking about water consumption; How vital it is to everything we do and how much we use day to day. I am very aware that this will vary from country to country and that I am fortunate that I literally have this life giving liquid on tap with little restriction.
Even though we are on a water meter, in Northumbria we pay a flat rate of £1.98 per cubic meter. That’s £1.98 for 1,000 litres. Less than 0.2 of a penny per litre. When I stop to think of how scarce water can be elsewhere in the world it really makes me realise how fortunate we are.
I had an image in mind for today - one of a stack of shelves that we see in most convenience stores, filled with racks upon racks of bottled water.
This was from a local Tesco Store.
I’ll be honest, I wanted the shelves to be full and should have brought all the bottles forward for a more aesthetically pleasing image.
But I was a little self conscious of standing in a late supermarket taking pictures of their shelves, so just grabbed a shot and moved on!
This was not the image I wanted, I would have preferred a lit one which will come later, but it does show the range of waters available in just the own brand range!
Also look at the price and remember that I get charged 0.2p for each litre from my household tap…
A trip to the local garage gave me more of what I was thinking - Its still not 100% there, but does give an insight to the different brands and again the prices being charged.
I would like to find a wider set of shelves that I can take a wider image of, as well as play about with the exposure etc. These images were taken in an iPhone 15 which was all I had on me today, but the images are still valid in the context of a project about water.
The UK consumes 6,800,000 litres of bottled water a day, over 3 billion a year. It’s hard to even fathom that number. I did wonder how to visualise it and googled how big a 1 million litre tank would be. Turns out you can get circular galvanised tanks to store water in, which are 17.3 m (57ft) in diameter and 4.6m (15f) high. So about the same size as a small house…. stacked on another small house! Oh and all for the bargain price of £27k.
Its fair to say this challenge is leading me down all sorts of avenue and definitely filling my head with lots of maybe not su