A new series. I'll explain a bit more later.
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For me, as long as I can remember now... or at least somewhere along the way, photography became about something different than just collecting photos. It isn't even about making photos. Photography, for me, is a process, a lens through which to view the world and life, to see and notice and appreciate things in manners I would otherwise not. It just so happens that I carry cameras to do this and it just so happens those cameras are loaded with film. I don't think they really need to be at this point in the process, but that is a conversation for another day.
I do a lot of landscape photography but that is largely because I find myself in landscapes often. And because I tend to do so much of this photography, I get restless with going through the process in the same way, again and again. Like I said, I am not photo hunting, I am not looking for gems to snap or take. I want to see the landscape in ways that I did not the last time I passed through. And so I am often trying to find ways to reinvent the process of landscape photography for myself, to find ways to use it in different ways to aid my own vision and perception of the world around me.
While hiking up Avalanche Creek in Glacier National Park I began to notice these large boulders. There is a term in geology called "glacial erratics". These are non-native stones that can be carried hundreds of miles and deposited by glaciers in landscapes they are not native to. This creek was studded with avalanche erratics. The type of stone was still native to the area as the avalanches had not carried them terribly far, but I was still struck by how out of place some of these stones looked in their immediate surroundings and then struck by how large some of them were and what force it must have taken to move them, even these relatively short distances. Third, I was struck by the apparent age of some of them, which varied from stone to stone. Some stones were clean, others overgrown, testament to a continuous history of avalanches. These erratics added a lot of depth to the trip up the creek this day and in the span of a couple of hours I tried to document them in a fashion.
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I found it intriguing how some of these erratics could obviously have been where they were for so long, long enough to grow trees around them, yet still be so bare and stand out so readily from their surroundings.
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I find that well defined patch of moss on the "nose" of this one so intriguing.
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This fellow was a bit on the scruffy side.
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