I was thinking about Tom Dracup today as I was photographing reflections on the choppy water at Conneaut Lake waiting for an assignment to happen. Tom was a painter and we shared space at Edinboro University for awhile in the Hamilton Hall. One of his many ideas was to photograph water surfaces and then paint them. I remember him showing me photograph after photograph of these surfaces of water. I often said to him--'heck with painting them Tom, show the photos!' I've been pretty fascinated again lately with 'abstract' surfaces I see. Yesterday I posted a photo and said it needs a person in it...and it does. I often think this about a photo, but today, as I was photographing the surface of the water as it went past a docked paddle boat a couple ducks came swimming by and added something that took it away from purely abstract shapes and patterns etc... and made it about something - with a cool background or setting. Photograph by Richard Sayer. PS my wife thinks I need to add that this is an unaltered photo. It really is other than a little crop off the right and bottom.
What is the reflection of? Red, white, black????? Neat pcture of the duck!
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Mom's son
6/6/2012 11:24:11 am
Hey Mom, This is choppy water next to a paddle boat that is painted red and white. The black I think is just the lack of light and the harsh difference in exposure. This really was mesmerizing. there were time this area looked like chrome through my camera. I post more of these on the richardsayermeadvilletribune,weebly.com blog. It was a great find... I was glad I had to burn some time and decided to do it this way---and thankful for the ducks swimming in--i was happy photographing the patterns, but the ducks made it a lot greater!