Between Wood, Rock, and Current

Close textures open gradually toward rapids before returning to an animal sheltered beneath a vehicle.

The sequence begins at a weathered gate and moves through mushrooms, bark, and fissured rock before opening onto churning river rapids.

It closes on a small box turtle resting in the shade beneath a parked car, echoing the shelter and texture found throughout the set.

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Related

Land & Water

  • Rock, Water, and Color - The sequence alternates broad landscape views with closer studies of people, foliage, and concrete before recognizable scenery gives way to overlapping colors and linear marks.
  • Between Deck and Open Water - Water, deck surfaces, railings, reflections, people, and distant land establish changing scales between the boat and its surroundings.
  • Along the Waterline - Changes in scale, backlighting, and natural framing connect boats, a small turtle, distant figures, palms, reflective water, and the low sun.
  • Fronds, Shore, and Ship - A study of changing scale across foliage, recreational beach space, open water, maritime architecture, and people within large white structures.
  • Loosies (2) - A loose sequence of standalone frames held together by water: views down from a ship's height, an abstract pane of hazy light, one crowded burst of costumed musicians, and wide, nearly empty beaches.
  • Sunset - A three-frame study of a single low sun over open water: the sun on the horizon, an overlapping translucent structure sharing the same sky, and the amber horizon light that remains once no sun is visible.
  • Shoreline to Backroad - Eight frames that begin at the waterline under overcast light, brighten into a sunlit beach with a posed pair, and end on a road with a motorcycle rider and a cattle truck.
  • A Snow-Capped Peak Above Layered Ridgelines - A sequence of high-altitude views looking down across layered ridgelines toward one recurring snow-capped peak, its position, haze, and framing shifting from frame to frame.

Images

Two vertical wooden gate posts meet at a narrow gap, framed by diagonal cross braces against a blurred green forest background.
Attention rests on a weathered wooden gate with diagonal braces opening toward a bright leafy path.
A small cluster of pale mushrooms with yellow stems grows from a dark rotting stump, with a blurred log and trail behind.
Attention rests on tiny pale mushrooms growing from a dark stump beside a softly focused woodland trail.
Deep vertical cracks split pale ridged bark on the left while darker, rougher peeling bark covers the right side of the trunk.
Attention rests on deep vertical cracks and curling layers across the sunlit bark of a tree trunk.
A thick fallen tree trunk with knobby textured bark angles down through dense green ferns and undergrowth on a forest slope.
Attention rests on a fallen forked tree crossing dense green undergrowth on a shaded forest slope.
Thin ferns and vine seedlings sprout from diagonal cracks in a slanted gray rock face beneath overhanging forest leaves.
Attention rests on small ferns emerging from narrow seams in a broad gray rock face.
Whitewater churns between dark angular rocks at the top of the frame, feeding a calmer green pool where two people sit on the far bank.
Attention rests on white water coursing between dark angular rocks in a narrow river channel.
A wide river breaks into churning white rapids across dozens of exposed gray rocks beneath a forested ridge and overcast sky.
Attention rests on a wide field of river rapids breaking around many exposed gray rocks.
A small patterned box turtle stands on pavement in the shade beneath a parked vehicle's undercarriage, wheel, and suspension parts visible above.
Attention rests on a small patterned turtle standing in shade beneath the underside of a parked vehicle.