An impressive and varied landscape afforded plenty of opportunities for photography.
Algae-covered pond in Wells Gray Provincial Park. Photo: © Donald J. Rommes
Nancy and I took a three-week summer trip around BC to get to know our Canadian neighbor better and to photograph. In the next several posts, I'll show several images from that trip—many of which are in this website's Don's Recent Images section. The blog's text first appeared in my LinkedIn posts.
Pond Painting. Wells Gray Provincial Park
You are looking at an algae-covered pond in the shade whose still water reflects sunlit trees on its edge. The clumps on the surface of the shallow pond are comprised of algae. The algae are blue because a clear blue sky illuminates them, but the tree reflections retain their “natural” color because they are sunlit.
We usually don’t notice the blue color cast of deep shade unless it is juxtaposed with daylight colors, as in these conditions.
It is a straightforward photograph of a natural scene, but the intimate composition, lighting, patterns, colors, and contrast control lend it a painterly quality—a painting that could be abstract, impressionistic, realistic, or all three. I love that delicious ambiguity and appreciate that it encourages interpretation on several levels.
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