November on the River
by Robert Carter
Title
November on the River
Artist
Robert Carter
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
This is a look at the boathouses on Crooked River in Alanson, Michigan, USA, on a November afternoon.
Photographer's metadata: We were driving home when we crossed the bridge over this river. As I just glanced up the river, somehow my eyes immediately saw the slight ripples on surface of usually calm river. I said to my wife, "I will have to go back there sometime and take a photograph of those ripples." Then, I realized that now was that 'sometime' and went back for the shot.
This photograph is an example of my mantra about the immediacy or urgency of photography. There is an immediacy to photography that does not exist in many other art forms, i.e., an immediacy that says "if you don't get the shot now, you will not get it." There are so many examples of that 'immediacy' such as Nick Ut's photo of the little girl running down the road in Vietnam after having her clothing burned off by napalm. And while few shots are as dramatic as Ut's, living in the 'now' means we get the shot now . . . painters can wait until they get time. Photographers do not have that luxury because the little ripples would have been gone.
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May 11th, 2020
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