Water Imagery
For purely sensual imagery, I think there is nothing finer than reflections and movement on the surface of water. It is natural, then, for me to try to express this in my artwork. Click the images to expand.
Routed Wood
Water Photography
Countless people have spent countless hours gazing at the surface of moving water, one of the most beautiful and accessible visual feasts in the world. Yet because of the nature of eyesight and our cognitive processing of visual imagery, our eyes can never capture and hold a single image of the water's surface the way a camera can. I believe this is largely because our visual processing system relentlessly attempts to interpret the shifting imagery to form a model of what the visual input represents. A reflection? Of what? Something beneath the surface? Some combination, that we must examine more closely to understand? Our eyesight is never independent of our cognitive processing of its input. This processing never allows us to simply admire the astonishing complexity and beauty of the gently moving surface.
I am in the process of creating an extended photo essay of images to illustrate the variety of beautiful imagery that can be found on the surface of water. All the images are being captured within an area only fifty feet in length along the bank of Barton Creek in Austin, Texas. I will compile a set of images devoted to each of the four seasons. As interesting as I hope these images are individually, more remarkable is the collection in its totality, in the extravagant variety of imagery that can be found in a single spot, depending on the moment.
You can click any photo to see an enlargement of the image.
No technological tricks were involved in capturing any of these photos. They are simple, natural light exposures taken with a pocket camera. None of them have been altered from their original exposure in any way.
All images are copyright Robert Lawrence Akers.
I am in the process of creating an extended photo essay of images to illustrate the variety of beautiful imagery that can be found on the surface of water. All the images are being captured within an area only fifty feet in length along the bank of Barton Creek in Austin, Texas. I will compile a set of images devoted to each of the four seasons. As interesting as I hope these images are individually, more remarkable is the collection in its totality, in the extravagant variety of imagery that can be found in a single spot, depending on the moment.
You can click any photo to see an enlargement of the image.
No technological tricks were involved in capturing any of these photos. They are simple, natural light exposures taken with a pocket camera. None of them have been altered from their original exposure in any way.
All images are copyright Robert Lawrence Akers.