About this site
Natura is an independent portfolio by Cynmark. It brings together original photography, illustrated documentation, mapping and simple decision tools around agriculture and the landscapes of Trinidad and Tobago.
The photographs
All 432 photographs were made by Wilmark Johnatty in 2013 on a Canon EOS 5D Mark III with a GPS receiver, which recorded the location of each frame. Editing is limited to colour, exposure and lens corrections made from the original raw files. Nothing is added to or removed from a picture, so crop damage, blemishes and ripeness appear as they were.
How to read the stories
The stories arrange photographs from different days and places to show a sequence, such as a crop moving from field to table. They do not follow one farm or one batch of produce, and the people and farms pictured are not identified. Where a step was not photographed, the story says so and describes it in words.
Figures and models
Tools such as the post-harvest loss model use hypothetical numbers that you can change. They show how a calculation works, not how a real farm performs. Each one is labelled as illustrative and shows its formula.
Locations
Map positions come from the camera's GPS and are rounded to about 100 metres before publication. Photographs without a recorded position appear in the gallery but not on the map.
Photographic and technical documentation work
My background combines professional photography with engineering, technical writing, content management and the production of material for communication and training. I am interested in work that calls for a coherent collection of photographs, and in projects where that material forms part of a larger technical or educational publication.
The work may involve documenting agricultural operations or natural environments; photographing produce, equipment and procedures; preparing illustrated factsheets and manuals with subject specialists; or organising photographic and technical material so it can be found and reused in digital publications. For an assignment, the scope, coverage, technical requirements and final formats are agreed in advance, and full-resolution files are prepared separately from the smaller versions shown here.