I was hiking in northern California about a year in a half ago. It was beautiful. The fog would come in at dusk and wouldn’t leave until the next morning. I remember I would get up early and I would walk around this lake looking to see if I could find God posing for my camera.
I remember walking a lot…I remember thinking to myself as I looked back at the camp wondering how the heck have I gotten this far.
I don’t know about you, but lots of my favorite photographs have come when I least expect them…It's almost like I have reached the point where I have given up and I start to walk back or put my camera away and then it hits my eyes and I notice something to which before I didn’t see. I sometimes feel like God is doing this on purpose to just play around with me when this happens.
On this particular morning I had decided to walk back…I was way to far at this point and the thought of walking back was just frustrating. While on foot I remember looking off into the forest wondering what could possibly be out there that could eat me…I also remember looking at all the flowers that seemed to hug the shoreline of this lake. I remember I kinda followed the shoreline at this one place on the lake and I started to notice the reflection of the mountains in the water. It was beautiful to me how much the reflection made the mountains look like a water painting. And I remember at that moment I thought to myself…He’s posing.
Have you ever been driving behind a Jeep wrangler or any other off-road vehicle and saw that bumper sticker that reads, “if you can read this, flip me over”? But in order to read this bumper sticker you have to bend to one side and to the best of your abilities you have to turn your head upside down so that you can read the sticker.
Well that is how I began to see this picture.
Did you just try it??
I was just standing there looking at this reflection in the lake with my body bent to one side and my head was turned upside down...Hey, what happens in the woods, stays in the woods! That's what I like to say anyways. haha
It was really funny (it would have been embarrassing if someone was around) because I was trying to turn my head upside down and still take the picture…that didn’t work to well. Then I tried turning the camera upside down…that didn’t work either. But then the light bulb finally turned on…I remembered thinking that I could just rotate the photo once I put it on my computer.
It wasn’t till then that the photograph came to life.
I have tried to refashion some of my other photographs in various ways through photoshop. But this photograph has not been adjusted in any way. The only thing I did was rotate the photo.
I guess you could say this is a Water Painting in the most literal use of the words...
From one seer to another...
heart.soul.mind.
kyle diroberts
