Low Water Gallery With a Touch of California

Capture and Creation

CLUES TO THE STORY

Coast to Coast and Bottom to Top

The banner image above I shot in Big Sur. That and the other California image on the left shot in Sequoia National Park, and others on the website, signify my family life’s reach from coast to coast. “Low Water,” however, refers to images captured at Round Valley Recreation Area near Lebanon and Whitehouse, New Jersey. Work done on the dams meant the water fell to about 30 feet below full pool. Record low levels. These photographs are only a very small sample of a unique collection created during that time. Throughout the four years or so when I visited the reservoir almost weekly to photograph the changing landscape—most of it now submerged—I never saw another photographer with a tripod, very few without one. Perhaps for the life of the reservoir the water will never again situate as low and the circumstances afford such opportunity for photography.

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