Waterportrait #1: Stillaguamish River
Water Portrait #1, Stillaguamish River captures the lensing effects of water and its capacity to bringing the colors and forms beneath the water into detailed relief telling the story of the land. Leaving "shadows" of its sinuous currents shaping the river's edge, amplifying flecks of gold colored pyrite, shimmering with the blue -green silt of rock pulverized by mountain glaciers. The first photo in the series, it was this work that set me on a course to understanding the lensing effects of water. How mixing that with shooting technique, could help me understand water as the primary feature of landscape signaling every movement and change in the land in time and over time.