Sometimes it's all about the little changes

Digital photography allows us all to take so many pictures so easily and cheaply that it's possible to record the little changes in our environment. The sorts of things that mostly went unrecorded in the era of film when for most people every picture was precious and not to be 'wasted' on the ordinary. Which is why the collections of the 'ordinary', by the people that took the same view for years or documented the day-to-day are so exciting now. And the sorts of changes that blip will now preserve for the future.
Seeing the new housing further along the street taking shape I was prompted to capture the work in progress. Not the first time I've shot the building site. And before that, the changes in the immediate surroundings as three lovely trees were chopped down. Supposedly because someone had complained about them blocking their light, but is it merely coincidence that they would also have been an issue for the new properties being built. I guess it is better than what was there before - the gap site that replaced the low industrial units. I didn't start blipping early enough to blip them before they were demolished.