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My good friend and photography teacher/mentor, Carol Leigh, is (and even she admits this) just a tiny bit weird.  What catches her photographic eye these days, is a good bit different than what most photographers are drawn to.  While other people are photographing the grand landscape, she's involved with images of the patterns in tree bark.  Everyone else can be busy taking photos of old buildings, but Carol will be gathering pictures of cracks in the stucco on the old buildings.  So, it was no surprise that when we got to spend some time together in Astoria last week, we spent an hour or so walking up and down boat docks taking abstract photos of colored boat reflections...and being pretty excited about it.

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Both of us think they're pretty darn cool...but I understand not everyone is on that same page with me.  When I spent time in Oregon with Carol a few years ago, taking what I thought were really cool photos of crab nets, pots, and colorful buoys, my friend Chris, who is always really supportive of my photography, said she really preferred my landscape photos...thank you very much.  So I suspect she won't be a big fan of these either.  But, that's OK because I like them.

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And why do I like them?  I am amazed at the wonderful abstract shapes, the bright, bold colors, and the fact that they change in a nano second.  Just standing in one spot on the dock, I could aim my camera at the same spot and come up with hundreds of different images in just a few short minutes.  So, would you hang them on your wall?  No, probably not.  But I might.  I can see a set of three, printed small but matted large, in a square format, framed in black.  As a matter of fact, I might just try that.

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