Understanding the interplay between light and
resulting shadows is the essence of photography, especially when in B&W.
Lately I am fascinated by the importance of timing when it comes to the light
that shines upon rocks. While in street photography of people the story is
always the driving incentive, I am experimenting with finding rocky structures
that have an anthropomorphic character when the light is right, and hence can
tell a story as well.
So, again, when I was kayaking I looked for such rocks.
The perspective is very different when taking pictures from the water level. And
it is a new “game” for me to move around the rocks in the kayak to find funky
angles!
Here is the pensive lady looking upon a shallow bend
of the lake. She has a shawl and her arms crossed.
My favorite was this picture. From my angle it
looked like a baby, almost in fetal position, kissing an eel on its left! Too
much imagination? Well, let me go further – the eel has the face of a man with
an imposing mustache! For a second I thought of a drawing on a children’s book
cover of the Cossack Tarass Bulba I had read a century ago! Here are baby and
the eel:
And Tarass Bulba as I saw it!
At the end of the morning, the eagle that I had
photographed before came back to say hello. I think he lives in those rocks.
This time I did not have the same excitement as before and I took my time for a
well posed shot.
When I was pulling the kayak out of the water the
sun was high in the sky and there were no shadows on the rocks. The lady, the
baby and Tarass Bulba had transformed themselves to plain piles of stone…
September 23, 2015
© Vahé A. Kazandjian, 2015
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