Conduit

“I am a conduit giving shape in stone to the visions and dreams that assist us to remember our greater purpose and connection to the whole.”

~ Andreas Kunert

Here I visited an unknown spot on Boulder Creek… much farther down creek than normal.. closer to home also.  The reason I decided to explore down-creek was because the sun goes down later as one walks away from the mountain.  Longer sunlight is very nice when the water is cold. Also, the ice breaks up quite a bit more as one goes down creek… which means, more rocks.. :)

This particular place was interesting because the ice was undisturbed, but also nearing it’s breaking point.  Large areas of the creek were covered in slowly melting, thin sheets of ice, which appeared to hover almost 20 cm above the water… It’s interesting to see how ice formation and erosion molds itself to the flow of the creek. In the above Black and White photo, two separate sheets of ice came together separated by a small gap where a creek rapid juts sideways down below..  A perfect place to frame a beautiful red creek rock.  I like the added element that if the rock falls, it takes the ice with it… The silence of the surrounding ice depends solely on the slim balance of the rock..

The focal rock itself was very interesting from multiple angles… And the type of balance point i was working with allowed me to reorient the main rock around it’s axis… Of course it required a slight re-balance each time… Manipulating the axial orientation of the focal rock can often bring out multiple characters from the same rock…

The rock in the above photo is the same as the two above it. One angle portrays a heavier feeling, as if the rock folds under stress of its own weight.  Then in the B/W image, the rock appears more symmetrical and almost weightless as it tip-toes on end…