Waterforms

“Water­forms is inspi­red by the con­ti­nu­al action of water on the land, crea­ting end­less forms and pat­terns. Surf-roun­ded boul­ders tos­sed ashore by waves reflect the rhyth­mic action of the sea, while the end­less time of this action is seen in the sil­ky, polis­hed sur­face of the rock shore. Ice and snow pat­terns record dra­ma­tic chan­ges in tem­pe­ra­tu­re and the sweep of power­ful win­ter winds. Wet kelp strewn on the sand, or pat­terns made by the fal­ling tide reve­al both beau­ty and mys­te­ry crea­ted by the sea along the shore.

It is a magi­cal gift to encoun­ter the­se natu­ral forms and pat­terns in the land­s­cape and I try to cap­tu­re the fee­ling of rhyth­mic action and har­mo­ny Ano­t­her favo­ri­te sub­ject is ice pat­terns that form in fresh water streams. The best ice forms occur ear­ly in the col­dest part of the win­ter, befo­re snow covers the ground. (I quick­ly lear­ned that to pho­to­graph ice pat­terns, the cri­ti­cal extra ingre­dient is warm clothes!)

Ice pat­terns embo­dy a fra­gi­le, flee­ting beau­ty and can con­vey the mira­cu­lous qua­li­ty of the natu­ral world. My thought is well expres­sed by John Keats in “Ode to a Gre­ci­an Urn.” “Beau­ty is truth, truth, Beau­ty, that is all Ye know on earth and all ye need to know.”

Fine Art Pho­to­gra­phy is the lan­guage of the inner eye — the inner self that responds without knowing. It is an intui­ti­ve dia­log that speaks as an image. It is a search for truth for the song!”
Doro­thy Ker­per Monnelly