One path, three frames

Start with a small boundary

Choose a short, familiar section of path. Give yourself twenty minutes and one camera or phone. The constraint is the exercise: you are looking for relationships, rather than trying to collect every interesting thing.

1. Make a wide frame

Step back until the image explains where you are. Look for a foreground edge, a middle distance and a background. A path can connect all three, but do not force it into the centre. Make a second version with the horizon higher or lower and compare how the weight changes.

2. Move closer

Find a detail that belongs to that wider scene: a leaf against a stone, water in a groove, a small change in bark. Keep enough context to show scale. On a phone, move the camera physically before reaching for digital zoom.

3. Photograph the transition

The third picture is the bridge between the first two. Try a bend, an opening between trees or a patch of light crossing the path. It need not be the most dramatic image; its job is to make the set feel connected.

Edit as a sequence

Place the three pictures next to each other. Remove any frame that simply repeats another. Keep the colour treatment consistent and write one sentence about what changed as you looked more closely. Repeat the exercise on a different day; the same path is useful because it gives you something to compare.