gbarto.com presents Santa Cruz Waterscapes

a photographic exhibit by Geoffrey Barto

The following photographs are what I call, for want of a better word, waterscapes. The terminology is hardly unusual but the photographs may be, insofar as they lack the usual sort of composition. Long fascinated by fractal landscapes, I found myself delighted by the odd patterns of the waves and the way the sea foam dispersed and focused less on creating a frame of reference than trying to capture the strange shapes nature offers. I am particularly pleased with the fourth photograph in which patches of seaweed sit about doing nothing in particular save disrupting the sea foam's attempts at pattern formation.

Photographs and commentary copyright Geoffrey Barto, 2003

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