Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Tank & Hose



PHOTOGRAPHER’S JOURNAL: My eye was held by the large rivets on the compression tank and the coils of hose. It may have been used for nothing more than watering a lawn. Meanwhile, in a darker space behind me, too tight for good picture-making, the key to the dry dock’s operation remained still undiscovered, easy to miss while fixed on the eye of this serpent. 

Might I have gotten closer - made the serpent lunge? On a first shoot there’s always tension between the urge to stay and study, the need for an overview of all there is, and a reluctance to poke into the dark and damp.





2 comments:

Ginnie Hart said...

I think you did this just right...allowing the sleeping serpent to just lie!

Emery Roth said...

As long as it doesn't strike.