- Summer on Deep Run Creek by Richard Lewis 2013
I love this photograph. It shows the New Jersey Pine Barrens landscape in the late spring when the Pines are quiet, green, wet and lush. When a friend saw this image she wished she could be there because it looked so peaceful.
Actually, my friend would not have gotten much peace in this particular place. It required bushwhacking through thick underbrush that ended in a massive thicket of thorny vines. After breaking through all that, a pair of waders was needed to walk out in the creek. Anyone walking through the swamps and creeks of the Pinelands knows that the bottom is a soft, unstable build up of plant matter and muck. You stumble around feeling like you and your camera gear will get swallowed up at any minute
After slogging around to find the right spot to set the camera up, I had to battle black flies, mosquitos and other bugs that are around in massive quantities at that time of year. Of course, then I had to find my way back. The result was worth the effort. You can find a sense of peace out here in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. Sometimes it is finding a nice little quiet corner and sometimes it is looking at a photograph of what looks like a nice quiet corner. Enjoy
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This is an awesome picture
Thank you very much, Adri.
So glad it was worth it… I have the hardest time with skies. Large amts and just pieces. Your comp is just right, it shows texture and not blown out. Sure does evoke a zen like mood and its in our backyards. Great seeing your work and talking to you at Smithville.
Thanks Mike. Skies are always a challenge, but this time the landscape and the clouds cooperated. The ability to find these zen like places out among those spindly Pitch Pines never ceases to amaze me. It was great talking to you too, as always. One day we should really go out together and do a shoot.
Until I read your words about mosquitoes, I wanted to go there! Beautiful photo. 😉
Thanks Cynthia! Next time I go there will be after the mosquitoes are long gone. I’d like to see this place in the fall and winter.
And chiggers, don’t forget the chiggers! We artist/photographers must suffer for our art but isn’t nice that we can mask the suffering in a beautiful end result?