Nymphaea Variations

These five pictures were taken within a few moments of each other. Since I listen to jazz a lot, shooting a subject like this seems a lot like improvising. You take a motif and work it through a number of changes and see what happens, letting one idea lead to another. It’s been years since I used my tripod with regularity, and the inability to shoot freely is one of the reasons.

I didn’t really edit these much as individual images, but spent a few minutes arranging the group. The leaves are from the pond behind our house.

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9 thoughts on “Nymphaea Variations

  1. I’m glad you’re sharing a way of working that I recognize, to go a little more by feel or instinct, to twist and turn. Sometimes the right puzzle piece falls into place right away, but more often than not, time has to work for you to be in agreement with yourself as a photographer. That’s when the hard drive swells up….

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