The big blue ocean and some stubborn rocks

            It is interesting how you can develop a relationship with inanimate objects and certain places.  These rocks are seen from the view afforded those who wander down the grassy slopes to a small, triangular promontory that leaves one suspended above sheer cliffs and pounding waves.  There is much to see and photograph and just take in at this spot and I have been again and again and again.  Somewhere along the course of those visits I began to fixate upon this huddle of rocks, barely peeking out of the rolling surface of the ocean.  I don't know why exactly.  I have seen plenty of rocks poking out of the ocean in plenty of places but something about this cluster has caught my attention repeatedly.  Over the years I have attempted various ways of photographing these rocks.  I like studying them.  Maybe with enough time and enough images I may even be able to see the subtle changes wrought on them by time.  

I have no reservations about photographing the same things over and over, going back to the same places and finding different ways of making pictures there.  There is a freedom that comes with this practice, for when I am standing there above these rocks I know I have so many other photos of them that I don't worry too much about the potential results of the work I am doing in that moment.  Maybe I will add to that collection, or maybe I'll add to the duds.  Either way there is a reassurance that comes from knowing I was there before and I will probably be back.

Hasselblad Flexbody
Kodak Portra 400

Taken on: May 14, 2020

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