sydney rocks history

hey guys,

here are some pics i've been working on, and would be loving some feed back. =)

to refresh your memory its the project i started at the end of your (NYers) trip, the photos were black and white 35mm digital and i was starting to play with how i could incorporate text onto the image (used photoshop) - to have the history of the landscape as a fusion with its architecture.

i've reshot obviously - with a hassleblad and colour film (hoorah!). what im stuck with now is how to resolve having the text with the image.

the work is about the location of the white settlers, and the history that is hidden - not in our hearts, but amongst the location there is no evidence of a time before the white settler's came.

the kind of text i was hoping to include is, 'the spot chosen for the settlement was at the head of the cove, near the run of fresh water, which stole silently along through a very thick wood, the stillness of which had then, for the first time since the creation, been interupted by the rude sound of the labourer's axe, and the downfall of its ancient inhabitants; a stillness and tranquility which from that day were to give place to the voice of labour, the confusion of camps and towns, and the busy hums of its new possessors. - David Collins, Judge Advocate of the Sirus, 26th of January 1788.'

…or smaller amounts about how defeated the settlers were by the weather and also their interaction with the aboriginals. the text would correlate with each individual image - sunburnt plants would talk about how they found it so hard to grow crops in the summer, building images would have writing about how they were surprised at how advanced the aboriginals huts were, etc. all from the book 'the first settlers' with is filled with journals of those who came over on the first fleets. 

so let me know what you think about the images themselves, and how you feel about the text - any any ideas of how to resolve the issue. at the moment im leaning more towards having the text somewhere seperate as opposed to a part of the image. a lot of the pics im reprinting so dont worry about how dark they are - particularily the bottom ones. oh, and they were too big to scan so there's 3 details and a big i took of them stuck up.

missing you all!

any help much appreciated.

xoxo

carly.